P5WD2 Premium or wait for Intel Crossfire

[playgroundtwist]

Got an itching for a dual core setup and since I've got some time off work coming, would be great to set it up during that time.

What you guys think P5WD2 or Crossfire?

[K.I.T.T.]

P5WD2 is supposed to get official crossfire support from ATi once its out. I'd say get the Asus :)

[Nasgul]

P5WD2-Premium and CrossFire go hand in hand now. Basically any of the only two boards in the market with a 955X chipset and two PCI-Ex16 can pull it off.

Apparently someone is running CrossFire with a P5WD2-Premium: See Here (http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/FeedBack/CustRatingReview.asp?Item=N82E16814102611).

I used to go nVidia "only" but now that nVidia is BSing in such major scale by not giving SLI to Intel, nVidia can kiss my A$$ because from this day forward I'm only buying ATI's. I wonder why they're so hard headed when it comes to that.........either way I'm glad to see that their efforts in the form of "nForce 4 SLI-IE" have failed miserably and will remaing that way.......nForever.

nForce 4 SLI-IE = http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Nasgul/vommit.gif

[playgroundtwist]

The only thing that's holding me back from buying the P5WD2 is the other x4 PCI-E slot. Would that make any performance hit when running in dual video card setup say compared to a true 2x16 PCI-E?

[2fink]

The only thing that's holding me back from buying the P5WD2 is the other x4 PCI-E slot. Would that make any performance hit when running in dual video card setup say compared to a true 2x16 PCI-E?

you wont see a big different between 2x 16 and 16/4. iirc it was about 2%.

[playgroundtwist]

Time to get the visa out I guess.

[vanovich]

nasgul that link dont work

[JoeBar]

I too agree that u should get P5WD2.