Suggestions regarding a new motherboard

Indus

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May 11, 2002
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I need an overclocking friendly LGA 775 socket motherboard,(able to hold a core 2 duo e6550) with PCI Express 2.0 and supports SLI/ Crossfire (SLI preffered). Seems all the recommended ones are only PCI ex 1.0.

Any ideas?
 
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lopri

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For SLI on LGA775 platform you need an NVIDIA chipset board, such as 750i, 780i, 790i. 790i is DDR3-only chipset, btw.

CrossFire works with any Intel chipset that supports x8/x8 configuration of PCIe. What you want to look for is a solid P45 board, such as this:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3508