Will I be left behind?

[MillingMan]

Well, I have many concerns with a planed upgrade I'm doing in a month. I will be going to PCI-e and I dont know what to do. My concern is what type of mobo should I get. I'm a HEAVY gamer! With that said all I know for shure is Ati's 200 series chipset sucks and I'm not going there!

Well, should I go with Nforce 4 Ultra? Sli? Sli 16X...

My main delema is do I need Sli? Now shure it would be nice to have but if I never plan to go dual cards then its a waste of space! But just in case I decide to go Sli then I would want the FULL 16X not 2 8 lanes So I cant decide if the 16X is worth the Extra $120. And theres more to it then that. Any mobo I choes has to have 4 SATA2 and 4 SATA's I really need them and I'm not a fan of add in's.

I'm really likeing this ASUS A8N-SLI Premium... But with only 2 8X lanes well... I might as well not bother with it if I ever planed to go Sli. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131540

What are your thoughts?

[herulach]

The 16X isnt worth it, full stop. there is zero performance difference, graphics cards arent even close to saturating pci8, never mind 16

[MillingMan]

NF3 vs NF4, What are the diferances? Will I gain any performance?

[teachmech]

If you ae going pci-e then it has to be nforce 4 as nforce 3 is an agp chipset.

[MillingMan]

yea, I was comparing it to what I have now