What MOBO??? Asus P5N32-E SLI OR Asus P5E-X38

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Hi, im having a little trouble deciding on what mobo to buy, im currently setting up a new system and thought i might be interested in SLI at a later date, except i have been told SLI Motherboards dont support more then DDR2 800 MHZ, and i have 2g kingston pc8500 1066mhz ram. And im not sure SLI is that Stable yet.

In the other hand i could get a Asus P5E-X38 and that supports the ram i require,

is there any point getting sli at the moment, or just stick with the good ole single!

system specs.
Intel Conroe Core 2 Duo E6750
Thermaltake Soprano Dx
(2x) Seagate Sata2 500gig
Coolermaster RealPower 600watt psu
DDR2 2G(2 x 1G) PC8500 1066MHz DDR2 RAM Kingston

Also, on the P5n32-e SLI

  • 1333**/1066/800/533MHz
    (** available when CPUs are ready for 1333MHz FSB)

What does that mean??? :S (available when CPUS are ready for 1333mhz FSB)

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Ok, this is a totally personal (but educated) opinion. If you plan on SLI’ing in the future you will not want either of those chipsets. Neither support actual SLI. The P5n32-e SLI doesn’t have two full 16x PCI-ex slots and the x38 actually only supports crossfire with it’s two 16x slots. So if you plan on using two Nvidia cards go with the 680i or soon to come 780i chipset.

BTW the 1333 MHz on the p35 board is for the new generation of 45nm processors that just recently came out. It’s just saying you can use the new procs on this board.