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boroboi · 21-04-2009, 12:46

If he's going for 4870's then i'd assume he's looking for an LGA775 board.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?ASU-P5QE

I'd recommend the P5Q-E. It's £10 more expensive than the lower model, but it has better mofset heatpipe cooling. In Crossfire, the cards will run 8x PCI-e 2.0 but with 2x 4870's that wont make a difference from x16 lanes. Theres no point in buying an X48 board unless you're running Quadfire.

21-04-2009, 12:46	#6
boroboi cf.geek Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Middlesbrough [TS10] Age: 40 Services: TT Fibre Large 78mbit Posts: 967	Re: crossfire mainboard If he's going for 4870's then i'd assume he's looking for an LGA775 board. http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?ASU-P5QE I'd recommend the P5Q-E. It's £10 more expensive than the lower model, but it has better mofset heatpipe cooling. In Crossfire, the cards will run 8x PCI-e 2.0 but with 2x 4870's that wont make a difference from x16 lanes. Theres no point in buying an X48 board unless you're running Quadfire.