Will this video card work with this mother board?

[dadams312]

Extremely new to all this, but I am looking for a mother board that will accommodate the MSI NX8800GT?

I will be purchasing an E8400 also (if I can find someone with it in stock at a reasonable price). I'd like a mother board that will work with the E8400 out of box as I'm not familiar with flashing BIOS and don't have another processor laying around to do it.

Any recommendations?

 

[CalvinHobbes]

THe 8800GT will work fine with that motherboard. As far as the processor support goes you may want to wait until a updated revision of the board is available or at least ships with the latest BIOS. It's possible the board would boot at least to the BIOS for an update.

 

[DSF]

Everything I've read around here has said that the DS3L supports 45nm chips out of the box. I don't have any personal experience with it though.

 

[dadams312]

The mother board is from clubit and is rev 2.0, which is supposed to support the 45nm processor.

Only reason I asked about the video card is it says something about it needing dual slot?

 

[HawkeyeRecon]

the graphics card can be run in SLI if you buy two of them. That would require two slots. Of course to do that your motherboard needs to support SLI.

 

[Doclife]

The latest Gigabyte P35 motherboard series that support 45nm CPU out of the box are the one that has the EP35 designation in its model number. For example GA-EP35-DS3R.

 

[HawkeyeRecon2]

Hi Dadams,

I misunderstood your question. After a fair amount of research I ordered this card today from Newegg.

It plugs into one PCIe 16 slot.

However it has a modified Zalman VF 1000 aftermarket heatsink fan module which doubles the cards depth. So it is effectively 2 slots wide. It means if you had 2 PCIe16 slots close together and wanted to buy 2 of these cards and run SLI you would probably have a problem. It also means you need to closely check your motherboard or pictures of your motherboard to see if the extra depth will cause problems.

Do some google searchs for MSI Zilent.

The board I ordered today (GA P35 DS3L) only has one PCIe16 slot. The card's fan, shroud and heat pipes extend from the slot over the motherboard. I was worried it might rub up against the South Bridge, but some people in this forum assured me it would fit. It looks like it might be tight. I just hope it's heat doesn't affect the south bridge. I'll be using an Antec 900 case though which is supposed to run really cool.

I'll be posting results once I receive it and have it running.

The number of reviews on newegg have tripled in the past two days. Everyone says its the best 8800GT because the fan provides an aftermarket cooling solution as stock. It seems to be running cooler than other 8800GT's. One guy claimed to have overclocked it to 740mghz.

Let us know if you get it.

 

[dadams312]

Originally posted by: HawkeyeRecon2
Hi Dadams,

I misunderstood your question. After a fair amount of research I ordered this card today from Newegg.

It plugs into one PCIe 16 slot.

However it has a modified Zalman VF 1000 aftermarket heatsink fan module which doubles the cards depth. So it is effectively 2 slots wide. It means if you had 2 PCIe16 slots close together and wanted to buy 2 of these cards and run SLI you would probably have a problem. It also means you need to closely check your motherboard or pictures of your motherboard to see if the extra depth will cause problems.

Do some google searchs for MSI Zilent.

The board I ordered today (GA P35 DS3L) only has one PCIe16 slot. The card's fan, shroud and heat pipes extend from the slot over the motherboard. I was worried it might rub up against the South Bridge, but some people in this forum assured me it would fit. It looks like it might be tight. I just hope it's heat doesn't affect the south bridge. I'll be using an Antec 900 case though which is supposed to run really cool.

I'll be posting results once I receive it and have it running.

The number of reviews on newegg have tripled in the past two days. Everyone says its the best 8800GT because the fan provides an aftermarket cooling solution as stock. It seems to be running cooler than other 8800GT's. One guy claimed to have overclocked it to 740mghz.

Let us know if you get it.

Thanks for the reply, I actually did order it...today. Don't plan on running two cards so I should be just fine with that motherboard also. Still going back and forth on a case, everything else is ordered.

I need to find a nice case, with good cooling for ~$90 shipped...preferably with a minimum of 2 120 mm fans.

 

[HawkeyeRecon2]

I bought the Antec 900 a month go at Fry's for $69 PLUS it had a $25 rebate. Here it is on newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...129021&Tpk=antec%2b900


It has 3 120mm fans (2 in front 1 in back) and a giant 200mm fan on the top.

It is supposed to run very cool. Here is a great string about slightly modding the case for better cableing (lots of cool mods):
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=126395

It and one other type that I can't recall are often talked about as good OC'ing cases.