Great Mobo for 45nm?

I'm upgrading so I decided that I'd need a good motherboard for the upcoming 45 nm for my build, with sli. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131219 Looked good and it was one of the new x38's. I know that theres probably not enoguh room for a big cpu cooler. But it looks upgradeable due to the 2x 16x pcie 2.0's

Sorry to say, but that board won't run SLI, actually I don't think anything with the X38 chipset can run SLI. I wouldn't recommend SLI anyways, because you only get a 30-40%% performance gain (tops) but you are paying double.



Also, another board that I like better than the one you posted, is this one. Its pretty much the same but I like it better for a few small reasons, it's your choice.

If you're not planning on going SLI or Crossfire, the DS3R P35 from Gigabyte is a great board.

Actually I am planning for sli, are asus's crossfire and not sli? Are they the same just with Ati?

Sli is 2 nVidia cards connected, Crossfire is the equivalent, only with 2 ATI cards. I think there are some ATI cards that can run SLI or Crossfire, but IDK. If you are planning on Sli (2x7600GT or something) Then you'd have to go with an nVidia chipset board, which you don't want. If you are getting a new card, such as the 8800GT, you could look at the HD3870 instead and just go Crossfire with that on an Intel chipset board.

Its weird that the Nvidia companies (bfg, xfx, pny) and more have 2.0 express cards out but theres no boards that have 2 x 2.0 sli.

Great information. I have a similar question as the OP and I'm beginning to see I can't get SLI support with the X38 either. Of course, I plan to get just a single 8800GT right now anyway, but I was considering the future. But I really think the X38 would be a great chip....maybe I'll just forgo SLI then.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131153

thats what im using in a 45nm quad-core build for a friend of mine....not PCI-e2.0 but it has 2 pci-e X16 slots and a pci-e x8 slot.