budget conroe build?

[UA_Iron]

there you go, that's why i hate technology. you sleep for two weeks and you don't have a clue what you are talking about anymore turns out i did miss something. sorry about my previous post then.

according to that motherboard link it has pci-e 16x anyway. although i'm thinking it might be the dodgy board i read about a while ago that had a pci-e 16x form factor slot that was electrically a pci-e 4x slot. in any case, does that board even support conroe?

Yes the board supports conroe... I would hope they wouldnt print "conroe" on the motherboard if it didnt support it.

I believe it is a pci-ex4. You can run PCI-e x 16 cards in it and it doesnt really bottleneck them.

 

[Nitestick]

I believe it is a pci-ex4. You can run PCI-e x 16 cards in it and it doesnt really bottleneck them.

that is far too general a statement. i can guarantee you that you would notice a very significant bottleneck on cards featuring hypermemory or turbocache. these cards bottleneck at 8x. as is many cards come close to using 8x bandwidth so i would say that there could be quite a bottleneck.

 

[UA_Iron]

that is far too general a statement. i can guarantee you that you would notice a very significant bottleneck on cards featuring hypermemory or turbocache. these cards bottleneck at 8x. as is many cards come close to using 8x bandwidth so i would say that there could be quite a bottleneck.

Well this is what I have read, so no first hand experience of course. Here's some links:

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=xeon64mb&page=5&cookie_test=1

http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/22/sli_is_coming/page11.html

 

[Nitestick]

ok i checked the manufacturers site and it is indeed conroe ready, to the original poster if you consider this motherboard it will probably need a BIOS flash. those sources are accurate, it's just the budget cards i mentioned make heavy use of system memory and actually use dang close to 16x bandwidth.

 

[harry18]

i didnt mean to say something