PCI-E x16 x3 Mobo

[Monkey]

A freind of mine is looking to buy three 4870 GPU's and he wants a board that can take it on all three x16 PCI-E

Anyone got any ideas? And do aria stock any?

[Mul.]

If he wants to do that, his only two real choices that'll offer respectable performance scaling are Intel X38/X48 chipsets for an Intel platform or AMD 790FX for AMD. Before he does though, he better be able to justify it and realise that the performance scaling from two to three cards isn't all that great.

[mac124]

I have seen benchies where three cards actually do worse than two, to be honest it may have been tri sli with the third card being used for physx, 3 cards is an utterly pointless excersise imho. Two, maybe if running uber res, 3? Nope not worth it.

[Monkey]

Trust me i couldnt agree more, but this guy has more money that sense and he wants the most expensive peice of **** i can guild for him... and hell pay me to build it...

[Mul.]

Then get two GTX 280's in SLI.

[alexnifty]

And then a HUUUUUGE monitor to do them justice.

[Monkey]

Generally the bigger monitor you have the lower resolutions you get anyway so i dont see how that helps

EDIT: and hes already bought 3 4870's

And hes not a good freind of mine by the way

[alexnifty]

What are you on about? A 30" TFT will do 2560 x 1600 which is more than say a 15" at 1280x1024.

[Monkey]

OK alot of big screens have low resolutions, and they just slap a HD sticker on them

[Mul.]

OK alot of big screens have low resolutions, and they just slap a HD sticker on them

Those are HDTV's, which are 720i/p (1280x720) or 1080i/p (1920x1080).

We're talking monitors. Higher screen size will always mean a greater resolution.

15" 1024x768 / 1280x854 wide
17" 1280x1024
19" 1280x1024 / 1440x900 wide
20" 1680x1050 wide
24" 1920x1200 wide
30" 2560x1600 wide