New guy with setup questions here..

[4g64fiero]

I bought an ASUS M4A78T-E Mother board with a phenom II quad core @3ghz with a samsung 7200rpm 1TB HD and 8 gig CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600. All this and an evga nvidia gtx260. Well I have an issue because this is a crossfire board and not sli. Can it still do sli? Do you guys foresee any other issues with this setup? I am using windows 7 7100 BTW(the legit pre release). Everything seems to work fine, I am just worried because I would like to buy another gtx260...

Thanks guys, just want to optimize it.

 

[Ghosthud1]

I bought an ASUS M4A78T-E Mother board with a phenom II quad core @3ghz with a samsung 7200rpm 1TB HD and 8 gig CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600. All this and an evga nvidia gtx260. Well I have an issue because this is a crossfire board and not sli. Can it still do sli? Do you guys foresee any other issues with this setup? I am using windows 7 7100 BTW(the legit pre release). Everything seems to work fine, I am just worried because I would like to buy another gtx260...

Thanks guys, just want to optimize it.

you would have too buy a SLI motherboard my friend as the M4A78 only supports crossfire

 

[4g64fiero]

Thanks buddy.

 

[sammytomjohn]

get an 8800gt or gts or 9600gso or 9600gt and use it for physx instead!

 

[Ghosthud1]

good point sammy

also if you are looking into going sli on the amd side of the road look for the 980a chipset there should be some out there like this http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Comp...980a+Chipset,+DDR2,+AM2+/AM3+?productId=36998

 

[4g64fiero]

get an 8800gt or gts or 9600gso or 9600gt and use it for physx instead!

Damn I didnt even think about that. I have an 8800gt laying around.

 

[4g64fiero]

That asus MB up there doesnt have ddr3 support though. I dont know much about computers(just a+ certified) but I read around here that ddr3 doesnt help that much with graphics anyways. Unfortunately this computer wont be used for only games, I do alot of media editing (primarily music recording). I would think the ddr3 helps some there.

If I build another one, which I will soon since I need two anyways, will it be best to use an ati card instead? Whats considered comparable in the ATi world?