Crossfire Mobo on a Budget

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Hey There, well ever since I obtained my ATI 4850, I have been longing for a decent Crossfire mobo so I can have my hearts desire and go Crossfiring Around town.

What I would like to know is what good mobo's are there out there that will support Crossfire? But there is a limit however on the funds with a maximum price of R1500.

Many Thanks :)
 
No GOOD crossfire motherboards for under R3000 or so. P45 supports 8X+8X, P35 supports 16X+4X, X38/48 supports 16X+16X.
 
cyberarmy said:
No GOOD crossfire motherboards for under R3000 or so. P45 supports 8X+8X, P35 supports 16X+4X, X38/48 supports 16X+16X.
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those are intel only though :rolleyes:

Um, well look around, AMD mobo are always cheaper (or thats what i've noticed) so finding a crossfire won't be that tough, HOWEVER, find a mobo that has X16 and X16, when you running with X16 and X4 for example, you will see that the transfer rates aint quit as nice, but when rolling with X16 and X4 the performance increase will be high, but, not quite twice the performance, maybe 1.5-1.7 times increase, that said, you will find that that should give you enough power play crysis on max :D
 
There are no cheap xfire am2/am2+ boards, checked three online dealers and could find nothing.
 
hey man, did a lil digging and found this : linky

It sports 2xpci-e X16, (but when you install 2 cards it becomes 8x and 8x)
4xddr 800(for normal AM2 processors
gig lan
8-channel audio
and all the other things that would make a normal person happy...

All this for R1090...
 
SlyFly said:
MSI Has some really good AM2 boards with 16x support...

Saw an online shop that sold them... Cant remember who though:

Here is an example:
http://www.buycomputers.co.za/defau...2+&subcatid=142&catid=26&catname=Motherboards

There is a AM2+ mobo that supports 4 cards... Only R2000, the other one on there is R1300 but only supports 16/8 (Those boards are even PCI-e 2.0)

Check out www.cyberdyne.co.za I know they stock MSI products
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ye, whats up with MSI? they charging so little?
but can you imagine running 4 4850's :P, finally, hardware that will laugh at crysis
But can you run 4 HD4870X2's? so that you in fact are running 8 gpu's???? if so, the 3d mark is gonna be owned
 
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