Need a dual PCI-E motherboard

[tornadog]

Whats my best choice for upgrading to one? Needs to have 2 pci-e slots and at least 1 pci slot. looking to overclock the hell out of the cpu and ram in specs.

 

[sonoma1993]

Originally posted by: tornadog
Whats my best choice for upgrading to one? Needs to have 2 pcix slots and at least 1 pci slot. looking to overclock the hell out of the cpu and ram in specs.

do you mean pci-e? also what cpu are looking to use?

 

[tornadog]

it is in my sig..an e8400. Yes pci-e is what I meant. I have a 8400gs that i want to ad for physx if possible and use the gtx280 exclusively for graphics.

 

[MegaWorks]

eVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW, but the board has only 4 sata ports if you don't care about that then it's a very good choice.

 

[PCTC2]

Well, he could even go with a P45 or X48. What's your budget OP? Overclocking on Intel Chipsets is generally better than nVIDIA chipsets.

 

[tornadog]

100-150

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: tornadog
100-150

You're not going to get dual PCI-X for less than $200 unless its used.

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

Originally posted by: tornadog
100-150

You're not going to get dual PCI-X for less than $200 unless its used.

Hey OP. Yes you can.

Look at the P45 chipset. you won't have SLI but that's not what you're going for. You just need dual PCIe and the second slot often operates at 8x, but that's fine for PhysX.

Here's some suggestions
GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-UD3P
GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-UD3R
Asus P5Q-Pro (missing some GTL voltage controls for quad-core OCing but your E8400 should be fine)
Asus P5Q3 (if you want to go the DDR3 route)

They're all under $150 with a 16x/8x configuration of the PCIe slots.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: PCTC2

Originally posted by: tcsenter
You're not going to get dual PCI-X for less than $200 unless its used.

Hey OP. Yes you can...Here's some suggestions

None of which have PCI-X slots.

Edit: Nevermind. I now see the OP meant PCI Express, not PCI-X, but did not bother to change his OP and topic title.

 

[tornadog]

There is an open box p5q pro for 70 bucks or a p5q-e for 90. Which one is better?

 

[WT]

MSI P6N SLI would fit the bill as well, but they are getting hard to find. I have one running two 9600 cards and an e6600 OC'd to 3.4. The board won't support newer 45nm chips, but its cheap enough depending on what CPU you want to use with it. Also have the aforementioned eVGA 750 FTW board, which is still available, runs the 45nm chips but does cost a bit more (at least 2x) than the MSI board.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: tornadog
it is in my sig..an e8400. Yes pci-e is what I meant. I have a 8400gs that i want to ad for physx if possible and use the gtx280 exclusively for graphics.

IIRC, doesn't having a low-end GPU for PhysX actually slow things down when paired with such a powerful GPU for graphics?

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle

Originally posted by: tornadog
it is in my sig..an e8400. Yes pci-e is what I meant. I have a 8400gs that i want to ad for physx if possible and use the gtx280 exclusively for graphics.

IIRC, doesn't having a low-end GPU for PhysX actually slow things down when paired with such a powerful GPU for graphics?

I didn't really read that properly. I thought it said 8600GTS. Yes, an 8400GS will slow down a computer in PhysX computations. I would recommend picking up a 9600GSO or GT for PhysX.