I have been running up to 1.28 Vtt, but I had to for stability.

Thanks guys - A lot of bullshit benching going on here but I am beginning to finally run '01 in the proper order lol. :blush:

OOOOO Grats ricks!

I may give this one a shot... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157231

I will be getting a new WR Revolution from RMA/NewEgg if anyone has a need for that type board.

I was looking at that one,

Don't know a lot about that company though.

Seems like all the boards can tear it up though

itseems to eb in the chip or not, so features seems to be the difference

Confirmed I can get dual 16x by throwing a sound card in slot 1 on the M4E :thumbsup:

This is going to be fun benching but ultimantly will be my gaming platform

Where did you find that nice little tidbit out? Why does it enable the nf200 when a sound card is installed? Do you have to use the top pci-e x1 slot and therefore leave the pci-e_1 slot empty and use the bottom two, or are you talking about just throwing the sound card in one of the bottom pci-e x16 slots?

AsRock is ASUS budget line.

Except over the last couple of years they don't exactly rate "budget" anymore.

However you can get some killer boards from them in resale value (asrock has no resale value) so I would never buy it new unless it was on mega sale.

x58 boards at $100 for instance (open box) as happened a lot on newegg...

dude asrock is like the baby line of ASUS..

i had an AsRock 478 board and it's still up and running... it's been like 4 years rofl

they are not bad really tho

Chip maxes out at 5.594GHz in 3D so far.

Bone stock 4870x2

3DMark2001 SE - 116213 marks - OC Maximus (OCAlliance) - (Ati Radeon HD 4870X2 @880/980MHz) 2.2 + 18.5 points

I was reading an artical on the NF200 used in the ROG Maximus 3

After reading I looked at the specs of the R4E and they are configed identical

this is the way it worked

4x 16x slots top to bottom

the other ones are not even in the equasion

Slot 1 occupied = 16x
Slots 1 & 2 occupied = 8x8
Slots 2 & 3 occupied = 8x8
Slots 2 & 4 occupied = 8x8
Slots 1, 2 & 4 occupied = 8x16x16x
Slots 1, 2, 3 & 4 occupied = 8x8x8x8

So what I am going to do is throw my creative card in slot 1 and the 580's in 2 & 4 for full 2x 16x lanes

It only supports 3 way SLI/CF but it will accomidate physicscard, controloer card or sound card even with three cards in the slots



Wow I did not know Asrock was Asus .....
They have some really good pricing and their boards seem to get better and better