Joing the Red side on a WildCard :D

[PeterJensen]

Yea well since i ****ing hate my Asus nForce 780i board i wall looking to get a Intel based board ;)

So my choise fell on

ABIT IX38-QuadGT, X38, Socket-775, GbLAN ATX, Otes, GbLAN, DDR2, 3xPCI-Ex(2.0)x16

It was cheap and have some nice reviews.

So why not take 3 x 4850's to go....they are almost giving em' away....:D

[Revs]

3xCF aint scaling too well ATM, probably due to drivers. Very little gain from the 3rd card.

[PeterJensen]

http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/articles/2007/10/12141857967l.jpg

http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/730/sapphire_radeon4850_box.jpg

[Fotis]

Congrats on your new setup Peter.Be sure to install the new hotfix (http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894) drivers for the 4800 series.
We expect many-many benchmarks.:)

[SH64]

Have fun! :D

[PeterJensen]

Yea i'm really looking forward to a stable Intel board.....i really hate this nforce crap :(

[zer0]

ABIT FTW!!!

[DMA]

That's a nice mobo, and they're really cheap now. I think I'll get one myself and go for CF too.
My P35 is 16x/4x crap, so it blows for CF. :o

[Toss3]

I'm gonna go the same road, but I think I'll get just one 4870 next month and another when Nehalem releases. :)

[slaWter]

Yea i'm really looking forward to a stable Intel board.....i really hate this nforce crap :(

True that, nForce crapsets are useless.

[Ninja Prime]

True that, nForce crapsets are useless.

Only took once for that data corruption problem to piss me off.

[nekrosoft13]

True that, nForce crapsets are useless.

bla bla bla

[Mr_LoL]

bla bla bla

You really are a tosser at times. Must be all that polish daftness. Nforce is a bag of S***e. They couldn't even get the nforce 250 working properly with one of their own cards.

[PeterJensen]

Well i got the motherboard today - running good. The cards are comming tomorrow. With the nforce boards i had some issues with running my 9300 @ 3.0ghz- Would crash when browsing or doing random crap.
Problem is gone with the intel board.....running 100% stabel with my GTX280. I should have never bought the nForce 780i board - i knew it, but i just had to give it a shot.

[XDanger]

ABIT IX38-QuadGT, X38, Socket-775, GbLAN ATX, Otes, GbLAN, DDR2, 3xPCI-Ex(2.0)x16



is it 3x x16 or 2x x16 and 1x x4?

can a x4 slot be classed as pci-e 2.0?

[LordJuanlo]

Third slot works internally at 4x

[SLippe]

Enjoy your new rig, Peter. I'm building one this week as well. Got my GPU and mobo today. Just waiting on the CPU and RAM to arrive!

[grey_1]

Looking forward to your benchmarks, although I'm going to wait for the 4870s myself.

[pizzaguy]

You really are a tosser at times. Must be all that polish daftness. Nforce is a bag of S***e. They couldn't even get the nforce 250 working properly with one of their own cards.

+1

[mullet]

:thumbsup:

[john19055]

Looks good ,I hope you have great luck with your new set up.I am going to wait for the 4850x2 and the 4870x2 to come out before I buy one.

[XDanger]

Looks good ,I hope you have great luck with your new set up.I am going to wait for the 4850x2 and the 4870x2 to come out before I buy one.
Jim Henson had the same wait and see attitude and now we're left with wrong sounding muppets!!

[Lfctony]

Well i got the motherboard today - running good. The cards are comming tomorrow. With the nforce boards i had some issues with running my 9300 @ 3.0ghz- Would crash when browsing or doing random crap.
Problem is gone with the intel board.....running 100% stabel with my GTX280. I should have never bought the nForce 780i board - i knew it, but i just had to give it a shot.

Hehe, here I was thinking about asking regarding your motherboard's stability. I ordered the same model yesterday and ended up cancelling it after some terrible reviews I read... Looks like you answered my question. :) I probably won't go SLI unless its on an Intel Chipset... :)

[qube]

its a good board had it from start clocks good and its stable

[PeterJensen]

System is up and running :-) About 16k in 3dmark06. Crysis runs better then on my GTX280....