32X PCIe boards

[tranceport]

Does DFI have one yet?

Am I limited to asus and abit?

I have a sound card I want to use as well as two of the 7950 video cards.


What are my motherboard choices? Any of you have this setup currently?

 

[Talcite]

are you talking about amd or intel? i'm assuming amd right? since nvidia doesn't have too many intel solutions.

 

[Heidfirst]

& 939 or AM2?

 

[tranceport]

AMD proc 939 socket.

I have 2GB of DDR memory. Currently using a DFI Lanparty Ultra-D and a single PCIe video card.

 

[Heidfirst]

Abit, Asus, MSI & I believe ECS all have C51D boards.
I've got an AN8 32X but not the 2 7950s ... board's been great but 2 x7950s will be tight & generate a lot of heat.

 

[CP5670]

I don't think two 7950s will work at all, on any motherboard. The official Nvidia drivers don't support quad SLI at this point.

 

[tranceport]

Plenty of people are running it. But I cannot find people who say they have it on 32x boards. Some people are running them on 8x PCIe slots. But I don't want to be limited by the 8x slots and it isn't offically supported.

 

[996GT2]

I don't really see a point for 32X slots, as even PCIe 16X isn't going to limit these cards.

 

[tranceport]

But with 2 cards then they get 8x..

 

[BassBomb]

8x each, while 32x gives 16x each... go back and checkout the performance between the two when the new boards came out... theres really little difference

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: BassBomb
8x each, while 32x gives 16x each... go back and checkout the performance between the two when the new boards came out... theres really little difference

There is a difference at high res. & high AA/aniso etc. even with single 7900s etc. in each slot - effectively put 2 cards into each slot & it stands to reason that the difference will quite possibly be larger.
If you are willing to fork out the cash for 2x 7950s (when nVidia sorts a quad SLI driver) you aren't going to be playing at 1024x768 on a 17" CRT ...