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Which Goes Better With A 9800 GX2
Which of these two motherboards would be a better choice for a 9800 GX2?


This one?

Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-X48T-DQ6 LGA 775 DDR3 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Or this one?

Newegg.com - XFX MBN790IUL9 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI DDR3 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail



One of these boards will be teamed with an e8400 processor and 4 gigs of G.Skill DDR3 1600 memory.
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Personally I'd go with the Gigabyte board. Overall better quality, better support, and stability. However, going with the XFX board gives you 2 benifits: 1) it's running on a chipset designed for nVidia products, and 2) you have the ability to go with SLI in the future, which is something the Gigabyte board doesn't offer you (only Crossfire).
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I would agree with Tipstaff, I would like a Gigabyte board with that Invidia chip-set for the best of both, but the Intel chip-set will handle a single 9800X2 just fine. The Chip-set doesn't matter much until you try to use two Video card slots.
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Well, I can certainly say that I definitely have no plans to go with a dual video card setup, just don't see the need for it. I have my certain games that I like to play, but don't consider myself an avid gamer.
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Well, I just ordered the Gigabyte x48T-DQ6 from the Egg and 4 gigs of G.Skill DDR3 1600 memory. After taking a closer look at both boards tonight, decided that I didn't like the heatsink pipes going all around the CPU Socket on the 790i. I have a Thermalright SI-128se that I use for cooling and no way did it look like it would fit the XFX 790i board. Hopefully I will have the board and memory by the weekend.
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i was going to say to get an EVGA 790i board if you were going with an NVIDIA based MoBo, but whatevers. you got the gigabyte board instead .

still a good choice

looking at the gigabyte board pictures though, i'm astonished that it needs heatsink material on the back side of the PCB!
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Well, I just ordered the Gigabyte x48T-DQ6 from the Egg and 4 gigs of G.Skill DDR3 1600 memory. After taking a closer look at both boards tonight, decided that I didn't like the heatsink pipes going all around the CPU Socket on the 790i. I have a Thermalright SI-128se that I use for cooling and no way did it look like it would fit the XFX 790i board. Hopefully I will have the board and memory by the weekend.
i think i like that RAM kit, and it's a 4GB kit as well. the G.Skill HZ is usually means, the kit is a very good overclockers RAM.

i'll be very interested in using a DDR3 platform a lot more than now, only if it's not selling for more than a half grand (for one kit, this is what i have to pay for it).

anyway, good luck and have fun with the computer building.
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Holy shhhhhh have you seen the amount of USB Ports on that gigabyte board? MEH!!
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i don't understand the language itself, but from the pics the cooling system looks nice.
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that's a bit overkill on the watercooling there...
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holy crap lol... walk about water cooling everythign

they should use kyrotech at that point...
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I like intel chipsets, nice and stable. In addition, they get supported for a long time. If you are doing SLi, no other way to go but nVidia IMO. But single card I like intel chipsets better.
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