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veedubfreak · 12-07-2007, 12:53 PM

Heh im seriously debating selling all 3 of my EVGA cards and going crossfire for the x38 chipset.

Nagasama · 12-07-2007, 01:06 PM

yeah if they are all evga you are looking at like 900 bucks for all 3. thats enough for two cards and a new mobo, proly.
ay yi yi i just dont get it...people on ebay pay more for stuff than if they just like...walked into the store and bought it.
the only bad thing are the fees. but, oh well i got the cash for it.
crossfire with that 24" and you will see a big improvement over SLI. plus, you can run both monitors w/out switching. which is obviously a drawback of SLI when using multiple monitors.

veedubfreak · 12-07-2007, 01:17 PM

Orly. Crossfire lets you run dual monitors? Yep, sounds like some cards are going on ebay this weekend. Now to figure out what x38 board to buy. STE just bought the abit that i was looking at, its either that board or the gigabyte x38 board.

Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6 LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Ultra Durable 2, Ultra Cooling Intel Motherboard - Retail
or
Newegg.com - ABIT IX38 Quad GT LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Please dont suggest Asus. I will not be buying an Asus board. Also im leaning more towards the gigabyte board as i have had really good luck so far with my ds3r.

lancec2c30 · 12-07-2007, 04:14 PM

I would wait and see what Ste thinks of the Abit first, They make some great boards. The IP-35 Pro seems like a champ over at XS, maybe it does the same for the X38 chipset?

veedubfreak · 12-07-2007, 05:19 PM

Ya, ste needs to hurry up and get that thing going. I have to find some 3870s for a reasonable price first though. Gonna call best buy when i get home and see if i can get put in the queue or preorder 2 of the visiontek's that are on sale for 215 but sold out. I also need to ge tthem to fix my rewards points, i have like 100$ worth of coupons but cant get to them because their system is being stupid.

synergy · 12-07-2007, 05:50 PM

Do you think going DDR3 would be worth is when getting an X38?

veedubfreak · 12-07-2007, 06:17 PM

No. Not considering that ddr3 crucial is like 500 bucks per 2gb. I'll switch to ddr3 if and when nehalem comes out and i'm forced to get a new board for that cpu.

synergy · 12-07-2007, 09:16 PM

yea, and I've read that performance gains are pretty marginal. You'll pay a lot more for a X38 mobo with DDR3 support too.

veedubfreak · 12-07-2007, 11:37 PM

Ya, the gigabyte x38 board is 30 bucks more for ddr3. From everything that i have read, ddr3 is only a little bit faster as far as performance and by no means worth spending 10x as much as ddr2.
Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail ddr3

550 bucks for 2gb, no thank you.

Nagasama · 12-08-2007, 10:35 AM

i say abit as well. i had nothing but stellar results with my kn9 ultra.

12-07-2007, 12:53 PM	#11 (permalink)
veedubfreak Official DFI Bricker Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 6,266	Re: dang Heh im seriously debating selling all 3 of my EVGA cards and going crossfire for the x38 chipset. __________________ EVGA x58 i7 920 EVGA GTX260 SLI 3x2gb Patriot Viper DDR3-1600 @7-7-7-20 1T Corsair 750TX MountainMods Ufo Horizontal 2x Swiftech 320 2x Swiftech 655 2x MM 3bay res 2x XSPC FC Blocks Swiftech GTZ Have you heard? http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f6/hav...-heard-187280/

12-07-2007, 01:06 PM	#12 (permalink)
Nagasama Troll Exterminator Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: your mom's house Posts: 6,108	Re: dang yeah if they are all evga you are looking at like 900 bucks for all 3. thats enough for two cards and a new mobo, proly. ay yi yi i just dont get it...people on ebay pay more for stuff than if they just like...walked into the store and bought it. the only bad thing are the fees. but, oh well i got the cash for it. crossfire with that 24" and you will see a big improvement over SLI. plus, you can run both monitors w/out switching. which is obviously a drawback of SLI when using multiple monitors. __________________ q9450~3.75 very fast ghz~~asus P5Q Deluxe~~2 x 2gb OCZ reaper 1066~ ~Sapphire HD4870 1gb~ * media/folding rig * AMD x2 3600 @ 2.95ghz : 2gb OCZ ddr2 800 : EVGA 8800gts 512 : Asus M3A78-EM 780g Last edited by Nagasama; 12-08-2007 at 10:34 AM.

12-07-2007, 01:17 PM	#13 (permalink)
veedubfreak Official DFI Bricker Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 6,266	Re: dang Orly. Crossfire lets you run dual monitors? Yep, sounds like some cards are going on ebay this weekend. Now to figure out what x38 board to buy. STE just bought the abit that i was looking at, its either that board or the gigabyte x38 board. Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6 LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Ultra Durable 2, Ultra Cooling Intel Motherboard - Retail or Newegg.com - ABIT IX38 Quad GT LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail Please dont suggest Asus. I will not be buying an Asus board. Also im leaning more towards the gigabyte board as i have had really good luck so far with my ds3r. __________________ EVGA x58 i7 920 EVGA GTX260 SLI 3x2gb Patriot Viper DDR3-1600 @7-7-7-20 1T Corsair 750TX MountainMods Ufo Horizontal 2x Swiftech 320 2x Swiftech 655 2x MM 3bay res 2x XSPC FC Blocks Swiftech GTZ Have you heard? http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f6/hav...-heard-187280/ Last edited by veedubfreak; 12-07-2007 at 01:19 PM.

12-07-2007, 04:14 PM	#14 (permalink)
lancec2c30 Future ex-member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chehalis, WA Posts: 4,015	Re: dang I would wait and see what Ste thinks of the Abit first, They make some great boards. The IP-35 Pro seems like a champ over at XS, maybe it does the same for the X38 chipset? __________________ XP Pro \| Vista Home Premium \| Linux Ubuntu 7.10 s939 X2 3800 Toledo @ 2.6ghz \| evga 7900gs \| 320gig + 80gig wd \| 1gb Ram \| Abit KN8 SLI 3.1ghz achieved. 70K F@H member..............still waiting for the "iRACK" Norcent will not be forgotten.

12-07-2007, 05:19 PM	#15 (permalink)
veedubfreak Official DFI Bricker Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 6,266	Re: dang Ya, ste needs to hurry up and get that thing going. I have to find some 3870s for a reasonable price first though. Gonna call best buy when i get home and see if i can get put in the queue or preorder 2 of the visiontek's that are on sale for 215 but sold out. I also need to ge tthem to fix my rewards points, i have like 100$ worth of coupons but cant get to them because their system is being stupid. __________________ EVGA x58 i7 920 EVGA GTX260 SLI 3x2gb Patriot Viper DDR3-1600 @7-7-7-20 1T Corsair 750TX MountainMods Ufo Horizontal 2x Swiftech 320 2x Swiftech 655 2x MM 3bay res 2x XSPC FC Blocks Swiftech GTZ Have you heard? http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f6/hav...-heard-187280/

12-07-2007, 06:17 PM	#17 (permalink)
veedubfreak Official DFI Bricker Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 6,266	Re: dang No. Not considering that ddr3 crucial is like 500 bucks per 2gb. I'll switch to ddr3 if and when nehalem comes out and i'm forced to get a new board for that cpu. __________________ EVGA x58 i7 920 EVGA GTX260 SLI 3x2gb Patriot Viper DDR3-1600 @7-7-7-20 1T Corsair 750TX MountainMods Ufo Horizontal 2x Swiftech 320 2x Swiftech 655 2x MM 3bay res 2x XSPC FC Blocks Swiftech GTZ Have you heard? http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f6/hav...-heard-187280/

12-07-2007, 11:37 PM	#19 (permalink)
veedubfreak Official DFI Bricker Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 6,266	Re: dang Ya, the gigabyte x38 board is 30 bucks more for ddr3. From everything that i have read, ddr3 is only a little bit faster as far as performance and by no means worth spending 10x as much as ddr2. Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail ddr3 550 bucks for 2gb, no thank you. __________________ EVGA x58 i7 920 EVGA GTX260 SLI 3x2gb Patriot Viper DDR3-1600 @7-7-7-20 1T Corsair 750TX MountainMods Ufo Horizontal 2x Swiftech 320 2x Swiftech 655 2x MM 3bay res 2x XSPC FC Blocks Swiftech GTZ Have you heard? http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f6/hav...-heard-187280/

12-08-2007, 10:35 AM	#20 (permalink)
Nagasama Troll Exterminator Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: your mom's house Posts: 6,108	Re: dang i say abit as well. i had nothing but stellar results with my kn9 ultra. __________________ q9450~3.75 very fast ghz~~asus P5Q Deluxe~~2 x 2gb OCZ reaper 1066~ ~Sapphire HD4870 1gb~ * media/folding rig * AMD x2 3600 @ 2.95ghz : 2gb OCZ ddr2 800 : EVGA 8800gts 512 : Asus M3A78-EM 780g

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