i7-860 P55 Gaming Bord Options & Options???

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After a UPS Shipping disaster u can see in this below. but the ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer that my bother had in it i fried.

UPS Shipping Disaster: [media]http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetalice79/sets/72157625215996676/[/media]

My question is what mobos should i replace it with if i can get the 600 out ups. want good gaming sli board, but limited to a atx board because of main gear shift memorial case. below are a few boards i found.

ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer "Orignly in it": http://www.newegg.co...1-594-_-Product

ASUS Maximus III Extreme "Hard to Find": http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813131640

ECS P55H-AK: http://www.newegg.co...267&Tpk=P55H-AK

EVGA P55 FTW 200: http://www.newegg.co...8-057-_-Product

GIGABYTE P55A-UD7 "hard to find": http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813128434

Thank You in Advance.

Alice

P.S. this will be my active tread about this for now on

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i narrowed down mobos 2 the 2 hardest to find, found them on eBay. not cheep but both have some nice features. im thinking the asus is #1 choice because my brother was a hard core asus fan. also like how it comes with 3DMark® Vantage Advanced Edition software, that's super cool. also they make the ASUS OC Station. but it wold be a pricy build.

the gigabyte board is cheaper and has a ton of sata i could never populate and lots usb ports which i tend to run low on.

ASUS Maximus III Extreme: http://usa.asus.com/...ormm&templete=2

ASUS OC Station: http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=iRSrdumETCq04PD0

GIGABYTE P55A-UD7: http://www.gigabyte....spx?pid=3324#ov

Alice
 
Push the pcie slot back and bend the back plate back. TBH its your mums fault for the way it was shipped, those cards needed supporting or removing.

If they payout on insurance think yourself very lucky. You shouldnt use both cards anyways so just use the top slot.
 
my mo isnt a pc person i dint know it was shiped till 11 that night. ups store should knowne beter n dint tell her. she is suicideal about the fact it was broken its her onlys son farit postion till he died she shiped it to me becase she thaught i cold take care of it. now its busted to hell and in ups inspections

ALice
 
AMDFTW said:
ALX recomeding a EVGA prodct nooooooo,you have changed man
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Nah I haven't. Look at what it costs after rebates bro. $69.99 or something. Half of what you can get any other P55 micro for. At that price I would be tempted. EVGA are usually stupid money for a stupid board. For that kind of price I could live with it lol.
 
Well Alice if you don't want to listen then yes, that would work. I think if you are hell bent on SLIing those 295s you may aswell buy a load of old crap because none of it will make a difference.

It. Just. Doesn't. Work.

Scaling will be a disaster, games will either not run at all or run at terrible framerates and you're likely to end up breaking them both due to overheating.

Honestly I really don't want to dishearten you or upset you but you really have no idea what you are getting into. At best if you are very lucky (IE you have a butt that emmits sun rays) you will get some triple GPU support in about one game. The problems arise because of what the masses and mainstream use. IE -

No one uses 4 gpus. For the reasons given to you. It's too hot, scales like crap and not many people can afford it. It's a complete indulgence and a mistake people only make once. They do it because they want to show off and throw their money around but when the reality of what they actually got for all that money hits home many feel like a complete ass.

My Crysis framerates were cut in half with 4 gpus. Literally in half. One game used all of them (Bad Company 2) but due to the absolutely stupid ammount of heat generated it sounded like I was allowing stealth bombers to come and land in my bedroom. After a week of playing BC2 I cracked and sold both cards.

Without sounding rude here.

If you're not going to listen to the advice given to you then please stop asking for advice. Every single person trying to help you and give you advice has said the same thing. If you want to stick your fingers in your ears and go "lalalalalala" and not listen then why ask?
 
AlienALX said:
Well Alice if you don't want to listen then yes, that would work. I think if you are hell bent on SLIing those 295s you may aswell buy a load of old crap because none of it will make a difference.

It. Just. Doesn't. Work.

Scaling will be a disaster, games will either not run at all or run at terrible framerates and you're likely to end up breaking them both due to overheating.

Honestly I really don't want to dishearten you or upset you but you really have no idea what you are getting into. At best if you are very lucky (IE you have a butt that emmits sun rays) you will get some triple GPU support in about one game. The problems arise because of what the masses and mainstream use. IE -

No one uses 4 gpus. For the reasons given to you. It's too hot, scales like crap and not many people can afford it. It's a complete indulgence and a mistake people only make once. They do it because they want to show off and throw their money around but when the reality of what they actually got for all that money hits home many feel like a complete ass.

My Crysis framerates were cut in half with 4 gpus. Literally in half. One game used all of them (Bad Company 2) but due to the absolutely stupid ammount of heat generated it sounded like I was allowing stealth bombers to come and land in my bedroom. After a week of playing BC2 I cracked and sold both cards.

Without sounding rude here.

If you're not going to listen to the advice given to you then please stop asking for advice. Every single person trying to help you and give you advice has said the same thing. If you want to stick your fingers in your ears and go "lalalalalala" and not listen then why ask?
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i was misunderstanding something i guess becase i thaught people wher saying to get the evga board. i dont know all the tech jargan crap becase i only had dual sli gtx 280s for about 3 months then my bored failed. my mom shiped me my brothers pc that beta tested for nvidia them selfs. he was a computer god i just try to understand. my mom & dead brothers mom berly knows how to tun it on. my mom took it to ups store to be packged nd shipped right. UPS are just a bunch F***-ups. my packges always show banged up and they leve thing on porch when its writen all over box must sign. i joined this site becase i like the info in the reviews. im having crapy life in last 3 years my best frined died lost our home my brother dies. and i been sick as a dong trowing up n vomiting all months dr dont know why. ill be going under suger in a week to look int o it. drove 2 hours to a dr waited a hour becase he was late and drove home 2 hours. yester day i was so happy becase i was geting a pc that ment a lot to me to find out it was destroyed in shipping. 1 i dint know it was shiped till i checked my emaill 11pm and sall my mom shiped it. 2 i dont know what was in it till it got here all i knew it had dual 295's. some u guys are mor upty the a rome full woemon on ther periods i swear. im trying to build a pc in houner of my brother memory that i can actly use ill probly never over clock in my life but i enjoy gaming i just cant afored many games whin i live on full disabilty and stuk in a wheel chair.

plan and semple i ask advice and get people fluding me in so many tech terms my head spins. i ask so i can lern but when so many say one thing then so many say another.

my brothers pc specks before trashed.

ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer

i7 860 ithink

oem corsair h50

8gb ddr3 1333 dual chanel

nvision 3d setup

dual gtx 295 nvidia beta test core card quad sli.

win7 x64

no idea on storage becasce cant boot the thing.

but this atack was uncalled for. i asked questions to learn and i ask 2 forms maily, here and nvidia forums. u lern by asking to find info and opions to make a educated guss at mest thing to do.

alice
 
It wasn't an attack and I wasn't trying to be nasty. People here are trying to help you and offer you good advice.

I can see why Nvidia sent out two cards for testing but testing is about as far as it will go Alice. If you want to rebuild the PC to honour your brother then that would be great, but I think people here are offering advice to you on actually using it day to day. And to do that you should only run one card. You don't need to go mad on spending money as that's not what it's all about. It's about bang for the buck and most importantly getting it right.

Spending loads and loads of money isn't getting it right. Please just take my word on that.

If you are after a P55 motherboard then the advice being given is going to be the same. Get one, put in a 295 and use it. However if you want to just have it all in there then get any motherboard as it won't function very well as a whole so it won't really matter.

I think you will find that the opinions on here differ vastly from those on the Nvidia forum. This forum here isn't about bragging rights and pulling off ludicrous stunts with computer hardware just because you have bundles of cash to throw at it. It's about being honest, getting it right and enjoying your computer. As I said if you actually banked on using that computer and didn't want to rip your hair out then stay away from quad SLI.

I did ask you to go and read the quadfire test thread I wrote a while ago. Please do. You will see for yourself why quad graphics cards are not a good idea.

Also, the bandwidth on the lanes of a P55 is limited to dual 8x. This means that your problems will be even worse. To get the right board you are going to need to spend loads and loads of money and it still won't be right.

I'm pretty sure your brother cared about you a great deal and thus wouldn't want to see you wasting money on something that's not going to be of any use to you. This forum cares about you in the same way, it's just what we do.

As I say, that wasn't an attack. It was just me trying (and I hope not in vain) to stop you from wasting your money and time. Your brother likely got those cards free if they were test cards and thus would have had fun finding out just how quad SLI does not work. Honestly it really is as straight forward as that. Paying for the pleasure? well, I don't care if you hate me by the time I am done but I wouldn't let any one I know, even some one I couldn't stand, waste their money on quad SLI/Quadfire. I would rather they hate me than see them waste their cash.
 
AlienALX said:
It wasn't an attack and I wasn't trying to be nasty. People here are trying to help you and offer you good advice.

I can see why Nvidia sent out two cards for testing but testing is about as far as it will go Alice. If you want to rebuild the PC to honour your brother then that would be great, but I think people here are offering advice to you on actually using it day to day. And to do that you should only run one card. You don't need to go mad on spending money as that's not what it's all about. It's about bang for the buck and most importantly getting it right.

Spending loads and loads of money isn't getting it right. Please just take my word on that.

If you are after a P55 motherboard then the advice being given is going to be the same. Get one, put in a 295 and use it. However if you want to just have it all in there then get any motherboard as it won't function very well as a whole so it won't really matter.

I think you will find that the opinions on here differ vastly from those on the Nvidia forum. This forum here isn't about bragging rights and pulling off ludicrous stunts with computer hardware just because you have bundles of cash to throw at it. It's about being honest, getting it right and enjoying your computer. As I said if you actually banked on using that computer and didn't want to rip your hair out then stay away from quad SLI.

I did ask you to go and read the quadfire test thread I wrote a while ago. Please do. You will see for yourself why quad graphics cards are not a good idea.

Also, the bandwidth on the lanes of a P55 is limited to dual 8x. This means that your problems will be even worse. To get the right board you are going to need to spend loads and loads of money and it still won't be right.

I'm pretty sure your brother cared about you a great deal and thus wouldn't want to see you wasting money on something that's not going to be of any use to you. This forum cares about you in the same way, it's just what we do.

As I say, that wasn't an attack. It was just me trying (and I hope not in vain) to stop you from wasting your money and time. Your brother likely got those cards free if they were test cards and thus would have had fun finding out just how quad SLI does not work. Honestly it really is as straight forward as that. Paying for the pleasure? well, I don't care if you hate me by the time I am done but I wouldn't let any one I know, even some one I couldn't stand, waste their money on quad SLI/Quadfire. I would rather they hate me than see them waste their cash.
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regular p55 boards are limited to dual 8x yes, but if u get ones ith the nvidia 200 chip u can ruan dual x16. thats why i been looking at the GIGABYTE P55A-UD7 & EVGA P55 FTW 200. my brother used the dual 295's in quad sli for over a year till he died January of this year. about 1 week before he would been 28. i want to get 480s one day but its alot to get them right now im doing the best i can with what i got. below is the boards im looking at and why.

GIGABYTE P55A-UD7: it would allow me to hold 6 hdd easy and have a bluray burner and a drive with light scribe. as well as enough usb ports ill never have to worry. the down side is it is pricey and hard to find. i found them on ebay but about 350 and up

EVGA P55 FTW 200: a lot people that new my brother recommend this board. it will run dual cards at x16 also can run triple sli with dedicated physics what ever that means. i cant for one reason, my main gear shift case can bearly fit triple sli. but id be perfectly fine with. another plus is it is a lot cheaper and easy to find. in fact u can get at tiger direct with a usb 3.0 card for 250 and if i can get before 1st there is 40 rebate making it 210. http://www.tigerdire...8150&CatId=4391

i would like opinions for those 2 boards or any other board suggestions. what i do is graphical crating in psp and photo shop waching movies on pc and some gaming. games i play are Second Life, Final Fantasy XIV, and i might start playing Lored of the Rings Online agian since it has now gone to free play.

Alice

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think im going to go with the EVGA P55 FTW 200 simply for the bang for buck is about right for me. i currently have 2 hdd and want 2 more for storing back ups and dual optical drives. ty for all the advice you all have given me
 
Well I personally hate EVGA boards Alice. The bioses are absolutely terrible.

You said you want to do the best you can with what you have got. Then honestly please take the advice of every one here.

Use one 295 and keep the other one as a spare. One on its own will pretty much destroy anything you feed to it. But two are just going to give you a world of problems.

The board I linked you to is perfectly acceptable (infact I quite like it on account of it being plain with no stick on tat and it's black) so there's no point in spending loads of money on a board specifically for quad SLI.

Here mate, have a read through this.

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index....6215__hl__quadfire__fromsearch__1#entry356215

And then have a look through this.

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index....-5970-4gb-black-edition-limited-in-crossfire/

And you'll note that people got rather cross in the end.

There are a few people here who have tried quad graphics setups. Firstly there is the proprietor of this forum (well, as close to) Tom (TinyTomLogan) and then there is myself (who ran it for about a week) and then Diablo, who honestly said it wasn't worth it.

The board I linked you to will be more than good enough to suit your needs. Honestly, I'm not saying that for any other reason than just not wanting to see you waste your money. I'm sure if your brother was here he would put on his sensible cap and say the exact same thing to you. Just get it running with the minimal spend and use it. When my dad died he left some golf clubs. For years and years I didn't use them. Then one day my mother said "they're only a set of golf clubs so go and use them" so I did. And I had great fun with them !
 
Right enoughs enough.

No one is attacking anyone.

If you ask for advise you need to be prepaired to be told whats correct by realists NOT from fanboys at the Nvidia forums.

Really sorry Alice but every bit of information you have got here has been correct, if you want to try and tell the guys that they are wrong when you have already said you dont really know anything technical then you need to be prepaired for the situation to get heated.

Closing the thread. If you need any NEW information start another thread but I will not stand for you causing situations with my members.
 
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