need help/suggestions for computer upgrade

[pi27]

yeah that mobo looks great, is 40 quid more than the one i mentioned but 40 quid better as well, also on scan for some reason the 5670 is now only £55.20 so i could get 2 of those for the price of 1 5770.

this is an quote i just out in sry from techgage.com

As mentioned earlier, the board features two PCI-E 16x slots (will degrade to 8x for dual-GPU), three PCI-E 1x and also two legacy PCI slots, one of which will likely be wiped out if a second GPU is installed. To the right of the absolute bottom PCI-E 1x slot is the PLX chip in all its glory. This chip essentially creates a secondary PCI-E Gen 2.0 16x lane in order to provide additional bandwidth to both S-ATA and USB 3.0. This is the reason that the native PCI-E 16x is left alone.

how does the mobo get 16/16?

 

[AMDFTW]

it does not mate,it has 1 x16 slot and one x8 slot

but that only applys if you use 2 GPU's,running one card will give you full x16

but as the card you chose only hasa 128mb bus you wouldent notice any diff running at x8.

i dont no how them cards fair together but i bet a 5770 alone beats it

i would spend £2 more on the xfx 5770 2.0 as you can always xfire later

 

[pi27]

would a 2.1 card fit in a 2.0 mobo, i would assume not but then why is the 2.1 card cheaper?

and i have seen hdcp being a feature of some mobos isn't hdcp that copy protection on high definition media and if so what has it got to do with the motherboard?

if that £138 quid mobo still can't do 16/16 even though it dont matter anymore i might as well get that £93 quid one i mentioned earlier right, the p55a-g55, if so that brings the total cost to £610 quid and that aint bad

 

[AMDFTW]

2.1 2.0 makes no diff mate just get the 2.0 one.

hdcp is copy protection and it is inbuilts in all new GPU's and monitors but its not being used yet.

well it is upto you mate,alot of the i5 boards do 16/8 when duel cards are used and to be honest it wont make a massive diff

 

[pi27]

does that mean that i am better off buying a motherboard that doesn't have hdcp in it because the one i saw is relatively cheap at £93, its awaiting an eta according to scan though.

 

[Diablo]

You do not need a motherboard with any display out connectors, thus HDCP isn't needed in the motherboard. HDCP is only relevant if you watch blurays, which you aren't on that system I'm guessing.

 

[pi27]

your right im not gonna be watching blu rays but im just curious about this hdcp thing, if its some kind of copy protection i don't understand how they would even implement it into any computer parts. so what would happen if you bought a blu ray drive and tried to watch a blu ray film on it?

 

[AMDFTW]

well the gpu is linked with the monitor and it becomes hdcp ready,so you can watch blurays,not sure how its implemented,i no its not enforce yet anyway

 

[pi27]

so do you think that mobos without hdcp are better or do you not know yet until they start to enforce it?

 

[AMDFTW]

dude are you listning the mobo graphics becomes irrelivent as your adding a GPU yourself,the 5770 will be HDCP protected most monitors are aswell,your not goin to watch blurays so its does not apply to you.

not for a while yet sometime in 2012

 

[pi27]

yeah sry lol, this thread had cleared up all my questions now so cheers.

 

[pi27]

err i know its been a while but i didn't think it was neccessary to make a new thread just for this quick question

i searched online and saw that you could put a graphix card with a pcie 2.1 slot into a motherboard that only has a pcie 2.0 slot. can you confirm this to be fact?

 

[AMDFTW]

yes you can its backwards compatble,pointless but it will work