Well the drivers should be out at some point today.

As for the rest, looks fine to me.

 

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Originally Posted by !TopGear! I'm looking for a motherboard that is able to take 2 3870x2's in Crossfire (1 now then another once the drivers allow Xfire) and that will also have a spare PCI slot for my X-FI although this is not critical if it bumps the price up alot as I can use a USB sound card instead. My projected upgrade from my sig rig will be... SilverStone DA850 PSU 3870x2 + another one when driver's allow New motherboard to accomodate Xfire (thinking P35 or X38?) Plus all the other bits I have already including Q6600 B3. Would this do the job? Asus P5E iX38 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=669220 Also, considering this upgrade will cost upwards of £550 + £260 for another X2, will it A) Be a significant uplift form the GTS 640mb I have now and B) Last me for a good length of time without needing to upgrade the GFX? Thanks for the advice, much appreciated Edit: I game on a 22" 1680x1050 monitor.

That upgrade (2x3870X2) will last for a BIG while and will be a lot better than you 8800GTS.
dunno when the proper drivers are coming out though.

 

Drivers out today? Wha? Ive been waiting for em!

 

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Originally Posted by RainStryke Drivers out today? Wha? Ive been waiting for em!

They should be out today, I've just checked the ATI site and no sign of them yet.......................

 

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Originally Posted by !TopGear! I'm looking for a motherboard that is able to take 2 3870x2's in Crossfire (1 now then another once the drivers allow Xfire) and that will also have a spare PCI slot for my X-FI although this is not critical if it bumps the price up alot as I can use a USB sound card instead. My projected upgrade from my sig rig will be... SilverStone DA850 PSU 3870x2 + another one when driver's allow New motherboard to accomodate Xfire (thinking P35 or X38?) Plus all the other bits I have already including Q6600 B3. Would this do the job? Asus P5E iX38 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=669220 Also, considering this upgrade will cost upwards of £550 + £260 for another X2, will it A) Be a significant uplift form the GTS 640mb I have now and B) Last me for a good length of time without needing to upgrade the GFX? Thanks for the advice, much appreciated Edit: I game on a 22" 1680x1050 monitor.

No need for CrossFire at 1680x1050. I love the 3870 X2 to death, but at those resolutions you should just go with the 8800GT.

 

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Originally Posted by pauldovi No need for CrossFire at 1680x1050. I love the 3870 X2 to death, but at those resolutions you should just go with the 8800GT.

I know its overkill but I am doing it because I want it to last a long time (like my GTS did had it since launch only Crysis troubles it)

However this is likely to be my last chnace to do a big upgrade before I need to be saving money for University etc. Therefore I want to give it as much of a fighting chance as possible at being futureproof.

I am hoping it will keep me playing games at max settings at my native res for atleast 1 year maybe 2 with a bit of luck and tweaking

 

dual x2's is for that 3dmark06 glory!

 

i'm not even sure what overkill means but I think what you've got there looks good. I personally would go for a different x38 but that's just a personal thing

 

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Originally Posted by !TopGear! I'm looking for a motherboard that is able to take 2 3870x2's in Crossfire (1 now then another once the drivers allow Xfire) and that will also have a spare PCI slot for my X-FI although this is not critical if it bumps the price up alot as I can use a USB sound card instead. My projected upgrade from my sig rig will be... SilverStone DA850 PSU 3870x2 + another one when driver's allow New motherboard to accomodate Xfire (thinking P35 or X38?) Plus all the other bits I have already including Q6600 B3. Would this do the job? Asus P5E iX38 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=669220 Also, considering this upgrade will cost upwards of £550 + £260 for another X2, will it A) Be a significant uplift form the GTS 640mb I have now and B) Last me for a good length of time without needing to upgrade the GFX? Thanks for the advice, much appreciated Edit: I game on a 22" 1680x1050 monitor.

I like my maximus formula. However, any x38 should do.

 

DFI one is better in my opinion, since I've been very weary about Asus...
But everything looks good.

 

TBH I just chose that board because I thought it would do the job, overclock decently and is one of the cheapest X38's in the UK.

My only concern was that I heard people were having issues with the slots being to close together making it impossible to fit 2 cards in with a reference cooler.

 

Looks like teh ASUS X38 should have some space with two slots in between the cards. And you will obviosly hvae to get X38 chipset to have 2xPCI-E X16 actual, P35 has one that is x4 so you wouldn't want that.

I would also say try and grab the DFI if you can otherwise that Asus will do fine for you.

 

They all should have space or else the bridge would not reach, and I believe most of the bridges are the same length, unless you have a TRI x16 e board, but it is not.

 

Just checked, they released it! It's out today

I can't wait to get home and get my crossfire goin, hopefuly i'll get to see some badass benchmarks.