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What is a good LGA775 motherboard that can handle ddr2 16gb ram and 3 way sli at x16 each?
Dude Everytime I am looking up a motherboard for LGA 775 this is exactly what I am looking for: One that can handle up to 16gb or ram and have the pci-e slots 2.0 and each 16x and I am having a hard time. Can anyone help me out? my range is between 100-200 dollars. Thanks.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
There is no point investing a lot of money into LGA 775. You'd be far better off with a Core i5 2500K processor, 1155 board, 8 GB of RAM, and 1 or 2 higher end video cards
But either way, I don't think any 775 board has 48 PCI lanes, not to mention 3 video cards will bottleneck any older quad anyways. Even the Core i7 1366 line only has 40 lanes. Even if you did 3 cards at 16x16x8, or 2 cards at 8x8, you're losing only 2-3% of performance which is not noticeable
- whyme123Lv 71 decade ago
LGA 775 is pretty outdated. They were built in the time that windows XP was the best thing, so most wouldn't support any more then 4gb of memory.
The chances of you finding a lga775 with three pcie slots and supporting 16gb of memory is very, very low, and if you did find it, you might be paying more then you would for a comparable, newer motherboard.
- George HLv 71 decade ago
GOOD LUCK!!!! most if not all LGA 775 boards wont handle what you want! Most of the available boards are MicroATX with a max of 8GB ram and single PCIe x16 slot...none with 3 way. your best bet is to search eBay for a used one...EVGA did make a Classified board but well over $200
