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SLI board question

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wacki

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ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce SPP 100 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131568

Any advantage of buying this over the cheaper non SLI version other than gaming? Seriously what else is sli used for?

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ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131517

which seems to be the exact same board but w/o heatpipe and x8 SLI instead of x16SLI am I right?

also, thoughts about this board?

ASUS A8R-MVP Socket 939 ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 CrossFire ATX AMD CrossFire Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131584
 
SLI allows 2 video cards to power 1 monitor. Would you need this? Yes it's for gaming.

If you answer no get a non SLI board. The NF4 and Crossfire boards are competing chipsets. NF4 from Nvidia and Crossfire from ATI. Based on features and such you should make your decision.

Most SLI boards, when used in SLI mode, only run 8x PCI-E. The Asus board you listed allows both slots to run full 16x. Performance boost? maybe, but probably not that much
 
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