What mobo for 4850 crossfire?

[jonskyline]

Hi, im contemplating putting 2 hd 4850 1GB's in xfire (i already have one) my question to you is whats a good mobo you can recommend me to have? Need to be decent at OC'ing aswell if possible.

Thanks

[Webby]

Intel CPU I'm taking it?

If so your best options are X38 or X48 chipset boards these are not cheap though £120+. They are the best because of the dual 16x PCIE.

The next step down is a P45 board which will operate at dual 8x PCIE while you will loose a bit of performance the price is much more reasonable starting from ~£85. Look at the Biostar boards http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=906802 or if you want to spend a bit more the offerings from Asus, Biostar, DFI and Gigabyte around the £100 are all good boards.

[jonskyline]

Intel CPU I'm taking it?

If so your best options are X38 or X48 chipset boards these are not cheap though £120+. They are the best because of the dual 16x PCIE.

The next step down is a P45 board which will operate at dual 8x PCIE while you will loose a bit of performance the price is much more reasonable starting from ~£85. Look at the Biostar boards http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=906802 or if you want to spend a bit more the offerings from Asus, Biostar, DFI and Gigabyte around the £100 are all good boards.

Yep a Q6600, and cheers, looks good, i was looking at P45's actually the one ya gave a link for looks good.

[Rud91]

IMO you wont see much of a difference with dual x8 and x16. So go p45

[Thorsson]

DFI X48 would be my first thought based on XFire and OCing.