looking for AMD INTEL SLI motherboards

[jaggybunnet]

Hi folks

I am upgrading a pc and they want to have two graphics cards (Geforce 450) inSLI in it, the CPU is a amd athlon ii 640 x4. the mother board at the moment isnot SLI

I have no problems(at the moment) fitting it but after hunting for a compatiblemother board I am getting conflicting reviews and looking at MBs that shouldwork but find they don't. also i would be looking at true SLI and not shared bandwidth if possible

he wants it for gaming Hence the SLI and I think he willhave to chuck pretty much all the part apart from the case so .....I wouldprefer to use Intel which is personal preference and due to the cards beingNVIDIA.

I am making up some option for him which will include Intel as well but thiswill up the budget some what.

he would like to keep use some of the parts but after looking at them there isa lot of budget parts which could cause problems later. so at the moment it islooking like he can use the case and the Geforce 450.

I am unsure what the score ref amd cpu is at the moment, are they due toupgrade or am I safe enough to use there latest ones AM3+.

he wants to go along the SLI route so what ever mobo I get must be compatible.

basically I am looking to see if there are any I should stayaway from, I have had bad asus issues with bios updates and the likes but thiswas a few years ago and if there are any that stand out.

reference budget, I am going to put three different specsfor INTEL and AMD so am not fussed at the price at the moment.

Cheers

 

[Doougin]

This asus board is prolly the cheapest amd board that runs both cards at full bandwidth. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131636)
i also happen to be running two galaxy gts 450 superocs in sli.
theyll play recent games decently at 1980x1080
intel boards for full bandwidth are far more expensive. when i was looking the cheapest was around 240$

 

[MarkLuvsCS]

There is a potential software solution for getting it working. I'm currently using SliPatch, but there is a new one HyperSli. Works on my 790fx chipset but works on pretty much any 8xx 9xx chipsets it seems. I know it isn't exactly what you were looking for, but maybe it's worth trying?

*edit* Earlier nvidia drivers didn't have sli problems on and chipsets

 

[jacktesterson]

This asus board is prolly the cheapest amd board that runs both cards at full bandwidth. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131636)
i also happen to be running two galaxy gts 450 superocs in sli.
theyll play recent games decently at 1980x1080
intel boards for full bandwidth are far more expensive. when i was looking the cheapest was around 240$

Major VDroop Issues is all I can say if your overclocking... I know from experience with the board