New Mobo and CPU for +- R3000?

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plbartie

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Looking at the new sandy bridge processors but its confusing me. Hope you guys have some suggestions for me. Would like a motherboard with Crossfire. I can get stuff from Rectron through a friend otherwise online stores as i'm situated in Bloemfontein.
Use my pc for gaming, watching movies and everything else.
Thanking you in advance.
 
The P8P67-M will be useless for Crossfire, since it works in 16x/4x. What you want on Sandy Bridge P67 motherboards is two 16x sized slots running at 8x/8x (since that is the best you can get with current Sandy Bridge).

The 2500K is definitely the best bang-for-your-buck CPU around.

Your cheapest Crossfire motherboard is probably going to be:

Asus P8P67-M Pro

It also supports SLI, so if you decide to go with multiple Nvidia cards you will also be good.
 
+1 to Slayeruser's suggestion.

Just drop the CrossFire option, by selling your card and buying a single, but better graphics card instead of going for CF.
 
Get a 6950 or 6970 rather than crossfire. Or wait till a 7870 is available.
 
Thanx, you guys are awesome! So how does the CPU intel graphics work? At the moment i have a xfx 4770 HD graphics card. Will it be better to use the intel built-in HD3000 graphics? I'm planning on upgrading my GPU later this year. Where do you plug in your monitor to use built-in graphics? Will you be able to use dual screens? So many questions! :)
 
Thread hijack.

Same Budget:
(i5 2500 + 60GB SSD) vs (i7 2600 + 500GB HDD)?
 
@OP keep your 4770

@Fuma I hope you plan on getting a normal HDD as well? Cause i'd get i5 and SSD +1TB :)even the i5 2300 is plenty power for games etc
 
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