Best SLI board for Q6600

Hey guys. My brother has a P5N-E Sli board with a 650i Chipset. He is currently running a single PNY 8800 GTX and a Q6600 CPU. I was looking to upgrade his board. Any ideas?

Also I would like to ask if to run SLI you need 2 exact GPU's. In his case does it have to be another PNY 8800 GTX?

Cheers

 

SLI boards are trouble. Tell him the best plan would be to sell the 8800GTX. Then buy one 4850(0r two for more performance) and get a X48 based motherboard. Something like a GA-X48-DS4 would do nicely.

Of course you have to consider that the Nehalem CPUs are coming out soon, and his setup right now is good enough(that board is a bother, but it should last him a few more months). Best to save money. If not then go with the 4850 and X48.

The 780i is the newest SLI chipset from Nvidia. Now look at my sig.

 

A P5N-E SLI? He needs rid of that for more reasons than you could imagine.
He does need exact GPUs to run SLI - he'd be far better off running an Intel chipset board.

 

lol

Sam, I see you got bored haha.

Well if he is not doing anything adverse to it, I'm sure that board will chug along for a few more months.

 

you'd be surprised. P5N-E SLIs will quite happily break themselves without anything 'adverse'...

 

HAHA, Well if it doesn't last he can always get a X48 board.

 

Is there not even one decent SLI board?

 

Not really, Intel don't make SLI chipsets and nvidia can't make chipsets for toffee. Just don't use SLI.