Before I got out and spend $340 on this board I wanna know that it's gonna work with my system. On the asus website, it says something about fx-55 processor being recommended. Well, since I dont' have that money right now, I'm buying the Athlon 64 3500+. IS this processor fast enought to run sli with 2x 6800gt? Also, I'm looking for some quality, budget memory for this mobo. Any suggestions?
Hammer, several suggestions: Your CPU is not something on a 64Bit machine that is going to limit your SLI capabilities, however your Powersupply and Memory will. The need for a quality and high powered PSU is a MUST, espeically if running 2 x 6800GT's. Even a 480W Neo Antec or ThermalTake would be pushing it. I HIGHLY suggest you get one of these powersupplies: Antec TruePower 550W PSU (CA-002-AN) Enermax EG851-AX-VH 660W Power Supply (CA-011-EN) Enermax Noisetaker 600W EG701AX-VE(W) SFMA Power Supply (CA-013-EN) They are quite expensive, but to run a AMD64 3500+, an Asus SLI motherboard and 2 6800GT's thats going to consume power like a starved fat man, i cannot stress enough how important this is, if you skimp on a powersupply you WILL damage your system and your components. Also don't skimp on memory and buy cheap generic memory, or even expensive generic memory, get memory from: Corsair / Kingston / OCZ / Geil / Samsung / Crucial. As a note on your choice of Dual 6800GT's, I personally, would just buy the one 6800GT, buy a really BEASTY powersupply that you know WONT let you down like the one's mentioned above, get some really NICE memory like: Crucial Ballistix OCZ Platinum Corsair XMS Kingston HyperX Geil Ultra and get the fastest you can, preferably in Dual Channel. Getting 2 x 6800GT's sounds great, but there really is no point at the moment, no games for atleast another 3-6 months will have proper SLI support, and a 6800GT is going to be more than enough to power ANY high end game at the moment at full graphics, even DOOM3.. And SLI only increases performance by 1.8X that of running 1 graphics card when the game or program is designed and optimised to properly utilise it, and i can guarantee that this wont happen in any games any time soon. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE: DONT SKIMP ON A POWERSUPPLY and DO NOT buy from a make / brand that i have not mentioned. Same applies to your memory, by buying shity memory of cheap generic memory or generic memory in general you are basically going to bottleneck the performance of such a powerful system. Those who know best, please back me up on this post! p.s im only being abit harsh to make sure you get the right thing, what would be worse than buying that awesome system and not making the most out of it? or even worse damaging it..
Totally agree. Although I would really fancy a SLI system myself that is his choice. But for two very power hungry cards and a general high end system get a good PSU like Procal said. You can also get PSUs from PC Power and Cooling but i've seen the prices and they're a tad expensive.
Thanks man, I was looking to only buy 1 6800gt right now anyway. As for psu, what do you think of the ocz 520 watt psu? What do you think of the following ram Corsair Value select dual channel pc3200 http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=9821&vpn=VS1GBKIT400&manufacture=CORSAIR ocz 3200 http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=9821&vpn=VS1GBKIT400&manufacture=CORSAIR
sorry, that second link to the ram should be http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=10386&vpn=OCZ4001024ELDC-K&manufacture=OCZ Technology
Good choice of powersupply, go for it :good: Get the OCZ memory, as it will perform better than the Corsair Value memory and is around the same price.
I am also interested in getting the A8N-SLI Deluxe, but am unsure what ram to get. Will 2x512mb sticks of OCZ-EL 3200 Platinum outperform 4x256mb Sticks of Transcend 500mhz CL2.5 Ram? There is very little option with ram in New Zealand, but those appear to be the 2 most suited sets of ram i could find for the board for $700 NZD. You thoughts?
