Current PC is an Asus P5B Deluxe board (single PCI x16 slot) with a Q6600 CPU. With the crazy deal going on at Best Buy, I decided to pick up a pair of 3870's and see how they do in Cross Fire... only catch is I need a new motherboard (and possibly power supply).
My natural instinct is to buy either an Asus P5E or an Abit IX38 based on the reputation those brands hold in my mind, but I haven't really been keeping up with current boards and chipsets so I might be missing something.
For example, is the only difference between the X48 and X38 is that the X48 supports DDR3? That is what it looks like.
Edit: I just noticed some X38 based boards use DDR3... so I guess that isn't it.
How is ECC support for the various intel-chipset based boards? I know I don't need ECC for a gaming machine, but I would like to get a board that support ECC even if I use non-ECC RAM, so that if I decide to rebuild it as a server when I upgrade my gaming machine I can throw some ECC RAM into it.
My natural instinct is to buy either an Asus P5E or an Abit IX38 based on the reputation those brands hold in my mind, but I haven't really been keeping up with current boards and chipsets so I might be missing something.
For example, is the only difference between the X48 and X38 is that the X48 supports DDR3? That is what it looks like.
Edit: I just noticed some X38 based boards use DDR3... so I guess that isn't it.
How is ECC support for the various intel-chipset based boards? I know I don't need ECC for a gaming machine, but I would like to get a board that support ECC even if I use non-ECC RAM, so that if I decide to rebuild it as a server when I upgrade my gaming machine I can throw some ECC RAM into it.
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