[BinaryDemon]

Sorta of an odd forum to post this in, but there is no generic motherboard forum and I havent settled on which cpu/chipset I'm going to use yet.

Heres the question:

I have two 3870x2's that I want to quadfire in a budget gaming build. Budget being key, I'm looking to do this as cheaply as possible. My question is- how important would it be to get something that supports atleast 8x/8x? Obviously 16x/4x motherboards are cheaper- would 4x be a much larger limitation for the dual gpu 3870x2 than a single gpu?

Oh yeah, I don't need to hear about how awful 3870x2 quadfire scaling is I got them both fairly cheap.

 

[go4life]

You will not notice any real difference between 4x/8x.
I have tried my self with many different high end gpu's.

Also I think it was techpowerup that have done a lot of testing with just that, and you will only loose a couple of fps from it.

So no worries on 16x/4x

 

[Moltar]

Quote:

Originally Posted by go4life;12991022
You will not notice any real difference between 4x/8x.
I have tried my self with many different high end gpu's.

Also I think it was techpowerup that have done a lot of testing with just that, and you will only loose a couple of fps from it.

So no worries on 16x/4x

Agreed. There is only a 2-3% difference in the PCI-E lanes that you have specified. If you want to go cheap, just make sure that the board supports Crossfire, which most do.