[HADES - The gamer within]

Hey all...

I was going to purchase a athlon x4 630 in summer and wanted a mobo wit a mid range price tag and should be able to do both CF and SLI...
is it even possible on AMD chipsets??? and if possible which would be a good board??? and also a good CPU cooler for around 40$ max..
and m going to OC the CPU to atleast 3.4 GHZ... so the board should be able to handle it
and of course which memory to go with???

and also what does CAS means and what does it do????

Thanks for reading and replying

[Revorocks]

CAS is the timings on the memory. CAS8 would be 8-8-8-** etc.
You won't find an AMD board that supports both SLI and Crossfire. It's only the some Intel chipsets which support that.
What is your price range for the motherboard? $100?

[mihapiha]

Most X58 motherboard can do SLI and Crossfire.

Check this though. You can activate pretty SLI pretty much anywhere.


My question is: will you stick to AMD or go with Intel?

[HADES - The gamer within]

Revorocks, on Feb 6 2010, 05:08 PM, said:

CAS is the timings on the memory. CAS8 would be 8-8-8-** etc.
You won't find an AMD board that supports both SLI and Crossfire. It's only the some Intel chipsets which support that.
What is your price range for the motherboard? $100?

okay but what does the 8-8-8.. and 6-6-6.. mean?? does higher timings mean more power in read and write or is it the opposite???

and my budget is around 120$ for mobo 100$ for ram and 40$ for cooler

[HADES - The gamer within]

mihapiha, on Feb 6 2010, 06:04 PM, said:

Most X58 motherboard can do SLI and Crossfire.

Check this though. You can activate pretty SLI pretty much anywhere.


My question is: will you stick to AMD or go with Intel?

no i will stick with AMD as it costs less and i cant save more money than 250-300 till summer holidays(i.e, april-may)
so..... tel me a good sli board and a CF board...

[grandslam]

Lower timings are better

HADES - The gamer within, on Feb 6 2010, 01:11 PM, said:

okay but what does the 8-8-8.. and 6-6-6.. mean?? does higher timings mean more power in read and write or is it the opposite???

and my budget is around 120$ for mobo 100$ for ram and 40$ for cooler

[HADES - The gamer within]

grandslam, on Feb 6 2010, 06:55 PM, said:

Lower timings are better

so i should get one with 6-7-6 or 7-7-7 or 8-8-8?? and of which brand ??

[mihapiha]

with AMD I'd stick to a Asus board. They overclock the best, but that might not be in your interest...

[HADES - The gamer within]

mihapiha, on Feb 6 2010, 06:04 PM, said:

with AMD I'd stick to a Asus board. They overclock the best, but that might not be in your interest...

hmmmm i too thought of that.... and m a OC'er mate... i OC'ed my frnds 925 to 3.6Ghz on a stock cooler stable
he has an asus v-evo mobo
well which asus should i get and what abt the cooler and ram???