I have the opportunity to trade my 1 year old GTX260 for an new ATI 5870 of my choice (it's kind of a gift too). My motherboard fried a few month ago and i have been using a back up PC. So i need to buy a motherboard anyways and want to do it the same day i trade graphic cards.
What i need to know is if there is a motherboard that will support these following parts, overclock well, and crossfire with 5870s, for future upgrade if i need. My monitor is 1920x1200 so i might end up wanting crossfire 5870s sooner rather than later.
Q6700 with arctic freezer pro 7
2x2gigs of PC6400 (DDR2 800)
Corsair TX750 PSU (ATX)
Vista 64bit
I spent a few hours trying to look around. The few i found said they were compatible with 16x with a single card an 8x with crossfire. I also read that the 5870s max out that 8x bandwidth. i am not even sure exactly what that means, but it sound like that 8x cross fire would bottleneck the 5870s. I have only dealt with Nvidia in every single PC i ever built/repaired.
What i need to know is if there is a motherboard that will support these following parts, overclock well, and crossfire with 5870s, for future upgrade if i need. My monitor is 1920x1200 so i might end up wanting crossfire 5870s sooner rather than later.
Q6700 with arctic freezer pro 7
2x2gigs of PC6400 (DDR2 800)
Corsair TX750 PSU (ATX)
Vista 64bit
I spent a few hours trying to look around. The few i found said they were compatible with 16x with a single card an 8x with crossfire. I also read that the 5870s max out that 8x bandwidth. i am not even sure exactly what that means, but it sound like that 8x cross fire would bottleneck the 5870s. I have only dealt with Nvidia in every single PC i ever built/repaired.