Crossfire motherboards - recommendations

[oddfellow]

Can any of you recommend me a decent, but reasonably priced S939 crossfire board?

I'm gonna put a cheap X1300pro crossfire rig together.
I'm not doing it for ultra performance, or killer frame rates, it's purely for curiosity's sake.

There seems to be a lack of low end crossfire reviews around. I know B3D kinda played with it a little, but there's nothing comprehensive out there.
So I thought I'd have a play with it myself.

 

[Guden Oden]

I don't understand why you have to get a "crossfire" mobo, or a "sli" mobo. Why the fuck does the mobo need specific support for these anyway?

Two 16x slots, and that should be ENOUGH!

 

[oddfellow]

Agreed, but not really on topic.

 

[AlexV]

Because both nVidia and ATi have taken an anal route about support. Especially nVidia.

As for a decent board, those based on the 3200 Xpress chipset seem to be ok. And if you want something cheap, the Asus A8-MVP got pretty good reviews, if I remember correctly

 

[Mize]

If you're not after speed 480 XF motherboards have dropped in price quite a bit as it uses the older XF chipset. The 580 XF motherboards are quite a bit faster for XF and the ones with the ULi southbridge have faster USB too. That $136 Sapphire looks nice but has the ATI southbridge.

 

[bdotobdot2]

I love my DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR, but its not cheap.....

 

[MuFu]

Can any of you recommend me a decent, but reasonably priced S939 crossfire board?

A8R-MVP.

 

[Rur0ni]

A8R-MVP.

I'm with him.

A8R32-MVP is great too if you can afford it.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

A8R-MVP.

I installed one of these with a X1600 for a friend, and I was pretty impressed with it. It's not the full dual 16 lanes, but it's a lot cheaper than the A8R-32. The only thing that was problematic is that the northbridge heatsink is a large passive block, so some of the aftermarket heatsinks with big clips on both sides might not fit without the aid of a dremel.

All in all, the A8R-MVP is a good mainstream board with lots of features at a decent price.

 

[carpediem]

I'm with him.

A8R32-MVP is great too if you can afford it.

A8R32-MVP Deluxe is what I have and it's sooo nice. Big plus is that the chipset cooling is passive. I HATE chipset fans on MB's, they blow!

 

[YeuEmMaiMai]

abit at8 is a very nice board Crossfire and OTES cooling. Very overclocking friendly as well...

 

[oddfellow]

I finally went with the Asus A8R-MVP.

I have my uber budget dual X1300pro crossfire setup complete at last.

The board is a good overclocker. The dual X1300pro's are pretty useful too. I'd say they're about as fast as a single X1600XT, maybe a little faster.

Certainly handles Half-Life2: Episode1 well enough.
No noticable slowdown at 1024x768 with 8xAF, 4xAA, adaptiveAA, full HDR and that colour correction option on.

 

[skilzygw]

Does Ati have a s775 intel version? Since i see the price of s775 chips coming way down.

 

[AlexV]

It`s coming...when?SoonTM There`s also some old Xpress200 based ones, but they`re not that great AFAIK