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780i vs X38 - Which to choose?

I'm not sure we'll hear much more about compatibility officially until the 45nm are on the market. I'd guess your best bet right now is to make a short list of the P35's you're interesting in and check out the official support forums their respective companies have. Hopefully there will be some...
- Jevon
- Post #12
- Jan 14, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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780i vs X38 - Which to choose?

Yeah, Nehalem is going to be a big socket change again. Basically I think if you did decide to go with the X38/Crossfire option for the long-run, the idea would be to buy into the 2nd gen Nehalem releases once the new socket motherboards have been worn in. In the past it's always been the...
- Jevon
- Post #10
- Jan 14, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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qx9650 OC @ 6.0ghz!!!

Something to keep in mind guys is that most of these early OC's we're seeing are from Engineering Sample chips, which are basically cherry picked as best of the best. So far it looks like there are retail chips that aren't stable at 4Ghz (3.6 and 3.8)...
- Jevon
- Post #9
- Jan 14, 2008
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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780i vs X38 - Which to choose?

I agree with P35 over X38 according to your first post. In regards to your second post, the X38 boards only provide a few things over P35s: SOME X38's support DDR3, which I defnately don't recommend for you X38's have PCI-E 2.0 slot X38's have at least two (some have four) PCI-E full...
- Jevon
- Post #6
- Jan 14, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Getting more out of my X850 Pro?

I'm pretty sure Rottie is correct in that you can only do this on the AGP card, although it is really easy (I did it on my old x800:) Here's a good link to to start you off, although it may not matter since you're on PCI-E :( Might want to Google something like 'unlocking x800 PCI-E...
- Jevon
- Post #3
- Jan 14, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AM2+ Board? Asus M3A

The only reason you would need the 790FX model over the 790X is if you planned on CrossFiring down the road, as the FX boards have 2-PCIex16 slots and 2-PCIex8 (I think) slots. I like the 790FX and 5000+ Black Edition combination, and then upgrading to a fixed Phenom or other Quad that AMD...
- Jevon
- Post #6
- Dec 16, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Best Board for Wolfdale Penryn

P35 is definately the way to go if don't want to CrossFire at full 16x speeds. If you think you might CF at some point then you would need an X38 motherboard to have both cards running at full speed.
- Jevon
- Post #6
- Nov 23, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Which motherboard for CF

I aggree that you'll need to cough up the $ for an X38 if you want to take full advantage of CrossFire down the road; it's the only Intel-based chipset that lets you use 2 cards at full 16x speeds. The P5E you linked is probably the best value for X38, a step up from that in price/performance I...
- Jevon
- Post #7
- Nov 21, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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8800 gt for sale on websites

Over at NCIX.com the staff are saying to check back there at 6AM (PST). He also said though that with the NDA any sites that already put up the GT won't be getting anything.. but anyway, here's the link and quotes for the lazies among us...
- Jevon
- Post #34
- Oct 29, 2007
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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