P45 or X48 for Crossfire?

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For a Crossfire setup, are the two x8 slots of the P45 enough, or would I want the two x16 slots available in the X48?
 
What processor @ what speed, and what resolution are you planning on playing at? You asked a very subjective question without many details for us to help you at all.
 
criccio said:
What processor @ what speed, and what resolution are you planning on playing at? You asked a very subjective question without many details for us to help you at all.
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Processor: E8200 @ 3.6GHz

I'm planning on 2 Radeon 4850s in Crossfire and I've got a 24" LCD @ 1920x1200.
 
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Crossfire 4850s on a 24" are... silly. A single 280 GTX is going to be faster pretty much 100% of the time, and cost about the same, if not less if you get a P35 / P45 board instead of an X48. I personally would not ever run an 8x8x setup for multi-GPU, in case you ever decide to upgrade within the lifetime of the machine to cards that could actually make use of the greater bandwidth.
 
silent-circuit said:
Crossfire 4850s on a 24" are... silly. A single 280 GTX is going to be faster pretty much 100% of the time, and cost about the same, if not less if you get a P35 / P45 board instead of an X48. I personally would not ever run an 8x8x setup for multi-GPU, in case you ever decide to upgrade within the lifetime of the machine to cards that could actually make use of the greater bandwidth.
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actually 2 x 4850's work fantastic on a P45 and 24" monitor.... so do 2 x 4870's...

i wouldnt do 2 x 4870x2's though :p nor would i use a P45 for a 30 inch monitor.
 
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