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Message 970828 - Posted: 16 Feb 2010, 5:53:42 UTC - in response to Message 970791.  

Hi all.

Can anyone suggest a good bang for buck motherboard LGA775 that can handle 2 cuda cards?

If you want 2 full PCIe x16 slots you would need the X48 chipset, or one of nvidias. I think the 750i SLI chipset.... The P45 chipset will give you 2 PCIe x8 slots when both are populated. This might be what you want if you are going for a gaming machine & crunching. Which board are the best bang for the buck for you would be hard for me to say. In the US P45 board start around $90. Depending what features you want included the price goes up from there. I paid $140 for my GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-UD3P in April of last year.
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Message 970866 - Posted: 16 Feb 2010, 13:44:41 UTC

Hi all.

It's simply a cruncher/media storage machine that I would like to fit 2 cuda cards into, GTX260 or 725 (depending on price and rac vs wattage) running either win7 64 bit or xp pro 32bit any advice would be appreciated.

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Message 970870 - Posted: 16 Feb 2010, 14:04:09 UTC - in response to Message 970866.  

Hi all.

It's simply a cruncher/media storage machine that I would like to fit 2 cuda cards into, GTX260 or 725 (depending on price and rac vs wattage) running either win7 64 bit or xp pro 32bit any advice would be appreciated.

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For LGA 775 boards now my preferences would be
-Intel BOXDP45SG
-GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
For LGA 1156 boards
-ASUS P7P55 LX

Unless you already have a CPU for the new board it might be cheaper to get a low end i5/i7 system. In a lot of situations you can get a higher end CPU for less money.

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Message 973176 - Posted: 22 Feb 2010, 18:30:07 UTC
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Asus K8N-DRE - This board was too good to be true. It only cost $12.99 at compgeeks and came with a PCI-E slot. I had a spare pair of dual core opteron's and a bunch of old PC2100 R ECC that I was not using so I ordered it to find that it would only take a 2/3 size card. I could not find an ATI card that was 188mm or under that did double precision. I did manage to get a GTS-250 to fit in the slot and it cleared by 4mm.



a writeup is here and it does run ubuntu 9.1 well.
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