This any good?

[Insanties_birth]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-355-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481
Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard

Looking at mobo's and need a little help as I'm a bit bad at understanding them, this one seems to handle crossfire from what I can tell. My intended system will be
(bare in mind this is NOT a spec to be critted, stick with mobo advice please)
haf 922 case (3 fans included, 1 optional 120mm added) total 4 fans
Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G Motherboard (unless I change)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition 3.40GHz
Patriot Sector 5 Viper II 8GB PC3-12800 1600MHz Dual Channel DDR3 ram
ATI radeon 5770 1gb vapor-x (will be changed to a better card and xfired later)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache
OCZX mod xstreme silent 700w power supply
Sony Optiarc AD-7240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter

It's a gaming computer obviously and so I want a motherboard with decent features, and overclocking capability but I plan on clocking the cpu from 3.4 to 4ghz and the graphics cards a little, not the ram. Now can anyone advise me what would be the cheapest motherboard that offers a good chance at handling crossfire and overclockin this well? Or basically just verify if the chosen Asus mobo is good/ has some problems. Thanks in advance.

 

[b3mor]

Great mobo, has plenty of features, see the review here:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/08/28/asus-m4a785td-v-evo-review/1

Note the second PCI-E lane is 4x, but how much impact this will actually have is open to debate, I'm sure there was a decent test comparing PCI-E bandwidth all the way from 16x to 1x and the differences were not as great as I expected.

See this as an example (note these are not AMD chipsets though, and they may be completely different):

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/p55-pci-express-scaling,2517-6.html

Best bet is try to find someone who has done Crossfire with this mobo and see how it worked for them...

Another option if you don't need onboard GPU and can spend a little more is this, which has two (I think) 8x PCI-E lanes:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

 

[Insanties_birth]

Great mobo, has plenty of features, see the review here:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/08/28/asus-m4a785td-v-evo-review/1

Note the second PCI-E lane is 4x, but how much impact this will actually have is open to debate, I'm sure there was a decent test comparing PCI-E bandwidth all the way from 16x to 1x and the differences were not as great as I expected.

See this as an example (note these are not AMD chipsets though, and they may be completely different):

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/p55-pci-express-scaling,2517-6.html

Best bet is try to find someone who has done Crossfire with this mobo and see how it worked for them...

Another option if you don't need onboard GPU and can spend a little more is this, which has two (I think) 8x PCI-E lanes:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

Alright then thanks very much. I'll consider both in the end and decide whether I think I should go for the more expensive one. I think I may go with the one you showed me since it's debatable how much an effect it has but for £12 more I can be assured it should run well at least. It'll be slightly better I imagine too since it seems to have a newer chipset.