What should I do given my current hardware situation?

xBanzai89

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I bought a Gigabyte 990X AM3+ board last month, but it started giving me issues. Due to this I decided to get a refund through Newegg. I sold my previous 790FX+4GB DDR2, so I can no longer go back to that. I have a 880G I could use for now instead of going out and buying another board, but that leaves me without my 5770 crossfire. I thought of some options below to go ahead with.

1. Buy another AM3+ motherboard to use my 5770 crossfire and keep 955 BE.

2. 880G with my 955 BE and 5770.

3. 880G with my AII X2 250 and 4770 (backup card).

I am leaning towards option 3 at the moment. I am not playing games that are graphically intensive currently. I do not think I will be playing games that much when I get back to college as well due to having a busy semester. With this I can sell off my higher end parts and save the money for a future build around first quarter 2012 as it seems all the new CPU/VGAs are coming then. Thoughts?
 
I say option 2 since you never know when you might need the extra CPU horsepower.
 
True. I do plan on getting BF3 around release, so I am sure that will help there. I'll mess with the configurations this weekend and see what works best.
 
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