Socket 775 with SLI

NeverWinter · 13 May 2011 at 17:31

My current board only has one 16x slot, looking for one with SLI and maybe move up to DDR3 (currently on 4GB DDR2).

This is for a Q6600 and SLI 8800GTXs. I already have the GTXs and moving to DDR3 shouldn't be too big a cost.

What boards should I be looking at?

Cheers/

Surveyor · 13 May 2011 at 18:00

You're basically looking at an old Nvidia chipset board.

Chipsets such as the 650i, 680i, 780i and 790i supported SLI.

I think the 790i supported DDR3.

Pretty much only available second hand now though there may be a few knocking around in the retail channel.

NeverWinter · 13 May 2011 at 18:02

Yeah, I figured it'd be a 2nd hand buy. Any idea on price?

Surveyor · 13 May 2011 at 22:04

NeverWinter said:
Yeah, I figured it'd be a 2nd hand buy. Any idea on price?

No idea really.

Why don't you put a "wanted" in the Members Market.

N00bbuilder79 · 14 May 2011 at 08:03

790i is DDR3, ASUS Striker II Extreme is a good board, plenty of features for overclocking too.

setter · 14 May 2011 at 15:18

790i is the best of the bunch, the 6/780i's are dire quad overclocking boards.

Berno · 14 May 2011 at 19:31

I've got a XFX 790i Ultra that will be available soon ?

+ some other bits and bobs! DDR 3 etc etc.

Mr. May · 14 May 2011 at 19:41

the evga 750i f,,t,,w was the second best 775 board for sli once it had been pencil modded but only supports ddr2

Ch3m1c4L · 15 May 2011 at 23:01

i will be putting up a striker II extreme and 8 gb (4X 2gb sticks) on the members market next weekend as long as final testing on my new parts goes fine.

easy ocing with only 2 sticks of ram in, with 4 i alsways had ram issues, but then so did everyone with my ram (specific revision/version)

could give prices but price checks have to be in the price check forum.

cmndr_andi · 15 May 2011 at 23:07

Personally, If I was in your situation and really wanted SLI then I sell the Q6600 and jumping over to a P67 Sandy Bridge system which supports SLI.

Selling the Q6600 for ~£70 will almost pay for a new i3 2100 sandy bridge CPU and as you say - DDR3 isn't too expenisve (if you are currently running 4GB DDR2 then you could end up paying no money for the RAM upgrade).
This board seems to be the cheapest P67 that supports SLI, and even this isn't really much more than what you would pay for a second-hand SLI-supporting s775 board which comes with no warranty and no upgrade path.

Here is how the i3 2100 compares to the Q6600 in games.

This option also give you the option to upgrade to sandy bridge quad core CPUs and even Ivy Bridge CPUs in the future.