Socket 775 SLI motherboard reccomendations?

[gamingguy27]

Hello All,

I have a 8800gtx system which is a tad slow, so I was going to buy another for SLI purposes.

But I have a Asus P5K Premium (which is crossfire).

Can anyone reccomend a decent SLI mobo?

Regards,

Alex.

 

[klepto12]

might i suggest just buying a GTX 260 and save your money on the MB and a new card you will get about double the performance of the 8800gtx for a little over $220 man. Just make sure your PSU can handle it you really only need a 500W PSU with a good 12v rail. The MB you have is a nice MB and it would be alot better to just have 1 high end card as opposed to 2 last gen cards in Sli which takes up alot of space and Watts. Trust me you will love the GTX 260.

 

[MetalX]

I've got an ASUS P5N32-E SLI, very good board IMO. It's basically a stripped down version of the ASUS Striker Extreme. Overclocks rather well, stable, lots of features. However, the chipset is getting a little old (680i SLI). Anything based on the 780/790i SLI chipset should be great, or the 750i SLI for budget boards.

Also, a GTX260 is not twice as fast as an 8800GTX. Now I know the card in this comparison is an 8800GTS 512, and 2 8800GTS 512s in SLI, but 8800GTXs are faster than GTS 512s by a little bit, and the GTX260 is certainly not anywhere near twice as fast as one of those, and two of them in SLI often beat it out.

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

The eVGA 750i SLI FTW is a nice motherboard for the price and performance it offers.

 

[klepto12]

IMO i would not waste the money on a new MB and a last gen video card when i can have a card that is 50 to 75% faster than an 8800gtx which is not the ultra. Also i didnt say it was twice as fast i said it was almost twice as fast.
also you could get 2 Ati 4850's and crossfire them for about $300. which would still be better than switching everything.

 

[klepto12]

I've got an ASUS P5N32-E SLI, very good board IMO. It's basically a stripped down version of the ASUS Striker Extreme. Overclocks rather well, stable, lots of features. However, the chipset is getting a little old (680i SLI). Anything based on the 780/790i SLI chipset should be great, or the 750i SLI for budget boards.

Also, a GTX260 is not twice as fast as an 8800GTX. Now I know the card in this comparison is an 8800GTS 512, and 2 8800GTS 512s in SLI, but 8800GTXs are faster than GTS 512s by a little bit, and the GTX260 is certainly not anywhere near twice as fast as one of those, and two of them in SLI often beat it out.

lol the 8800gts 512 is basically a 9800GTX especially when overclocked and the comparison you gave 1 GTX 260 was basically the same as 2 8800gts 512s in SLi.

look at this https://www.techspot.com/review/79-geforce-8800-gts-512/page2.html it shows the 512 gts as basically being the same as an 8800 GTX.