Hi everyone,
I've been reading and reading trying to get a better grasp on what to buy for my system. Everytime i think i know what i want, i read about issues and problems. Was hoping i can get some good suggestions.
I've looked in skulltrail, but read about bottlenecks with nvidia, can't use ddr3 i believe, etc etc. Plus the speeds compared with a single qx9770, it's not that far off from what skulltrail would provide. The plus side of skulltrail is using what ever video card..if i read that correctly.
Anyway, i'll be using a qx9770 processor. The motherboard is the question now.
There so many issues with the sli's, motherboards based on nvidia and threads like this: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2174542&enterthread=y that's making it a hard choice.
Because of all this, i'm not even sure what video card i want to go with. At first it was going to be two of the 9800gx2 sli'ed. Then it was intels x48 board.
Anyway, i guess what i'm asking is if price or money wasn't an issue, what would you do?
In the past, i would build the best gaming machine i can, cause usually everything outside of gaming will fly on it.
I use my comp for these things below:
- I encode my family videos taken from my digital camcorder with adobe premier.
- rip dvds, rip cds from my collection
- gaming...not a whole lot, but i'd like to fly fast and crazy when i game. I play crysis, ut, oblivion, etc, etc.
- photoshop, i used this as well frequently.
I appreciate any suggestions on a motherboard to go with the qx9770.
I've been reading and reading trying to get a better grasp on what to buy for my system. Everytime i think i know what i want, i read about issues and problems. Was hoping i can get some good suggestions.
I've looked in skulltrail, but read about bottlenecks with nvidia, can't use ddr3 i believe, etc etc. Plus the speeds compared with a single qx9770, it's not that far off from what skulltrail would provide. The plus side of skulltrail is using what ever video card..if i read that correctly.
Anyway, i'll be using a qx9770 processor. The motherboard is the question now.
There so many issues with the sli's, motherboards based on nvidia and threads like this: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2174542&enterthread=y that's making it a hard choice.
Because of all this, i'm not even sure what video card i want to go with. At first it was going to be two of the 9800gx2 sli'ed. Then it was intels x48 board.
Anyway, i guess what i'm asking is if price or money wasn't an issue, what would you do?
In the past, i would build the best gaming machine i can, cause usually everything outside of gaming will fly on it.
I use my comp for these things below:
- I encode my family videos taken from my digital camcorder with adobe premier.
- rip dvds, rip cds from my collection
- gaming...not a whole lot, but i'd like to fly fast and crazy when i game. I play crysis, ut, oblivion, etc, etc.
- photoshop, i used this as well frequently.
I appreciate any suggestions on a motherboard to go with the qx9770.
