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Old 6th Mar 2009, 15:19
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Hi, i am fairly new to building and i am looking for a motherboard for 100 to 200 dollars,

i will be using the AMD Athlon 7750 2.7ghz and i want to crossfire two ati h4670s

i am not sure what motherboards are good or bad, so any suggestions wouyld be greatly appreciated

cheers,
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Old 6th Mar 2009, 15:47
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i want to crossfire two ati h4670s
Uh, why? Are they just sitting around or something?

Crossfiring budget cards is like challenging your friend and his Ferrari to a drag race and claiming you're faster because you rubberbanded two Geo Metros together. The only time when multi-card setups are worth it is the opposite: driving high end 24"+ monitors and even that's a challenging situation not to meet with a GTX 295 or whatever.

Other than that, just look for well-reviewed stuff based on the 780G or sometimes 770 chipset. I list several in my guide, though I like the MA770-UD3 quite a bit for budget builds (AMD equivalent of the P43) but the MA780G-UD3H just came out which is the AMD equivalent of the P45-UD3P series, so it's worth the money.
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Old 7th Mar 2009, 14:47
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well first of all i wanted to because me and my friend to wanted to try it out, and secondly i might install higher end cards in a crossfire, in the fuiture,

also, cheers for the suggestion i will have a look at those.
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