Price of a good SLI mobo?

What chipset? AMD AM3+, intel 1155 or 2011?

Also why do you want SLI? To be honest its usually cheaper and better to spend the money on one fast graphics card than 2 middleing ones.

@Lightlyseared Because I have a kick ass video card and a pretty good one already set up in my current O+PC with 3 monitors, I want to keep that setup the same. I don’t have loads of cash.

I suppose AMD seems to be the best.

So the cheapest AMD mobo I can see that supports SLI I can see is the Asus M4N98TD EVO Socket AM3 at about $140. SLI mobos tend to be at the top end as the cost of licensing the tech from nvidia is quite high.

Doesn’t SLI only work if the two GPU’s are identical?

@Lightlyseared Yeah, but I don’t use the SLI feature, I just use two video cards.

$140 is better than I thought it would be, I have a good case and whatnot already. I was thinking of spending around $250 for a motherboard but thats a nice price.

If you don’t use the SLI feature ie you’re not linking the two graphics cards to dirve one monitor then you don’t need an sli mobo. Any mobo that has the right number PICe slots will do you just fine.

@Lightlyseared So there are motherboards that support two video cards that aren’t SLI? I’ve never seen or heard of one.

SLI is a way of using two nvidia cards connected together using SLI bridges to power one monitor so you can get more performance. If you want to use two AMD cards linked together to drive one monitor then you need a crossfire compatible mobo. As AMD don’t charge as much to license the tech as nvidia do alot more mobos support crossfire than SLI so I can say with a very high degree of certainty that if you want to use 2 AMD cards you dont’ need an SLI compatible motherbaord.

Putting more graphics cards into a compuuter to drive more monitiors has been around since long before nvidia even thought the idea up Aslong as there are the available slots (and the PSU can power them) then you can put as many graphics cards in your pc as you like.

SLI is a Con.

What you spend on twin GPUs will usually cost more than spending that same budget on a singular dedicated GPU that performs higher.

Its clever Business.