Ok still not smooth in Battelfield Beta

Ok I have played the Beta a few times and its still not smooth gameplay. I have the latest updates 11:10 installed. Now my thinking is, upon reading about Crossfire is the board I have will run crossfire BUT when the second card is installed in the second slot it runs at X4. The specs in the manual do state that with 2 card installed it is as follows. 1 PCIx at X16 in the blue and X4 in the gray. Now doing some research for a while, some games do suffer when running at X16/X4. Now the board I got only cost $89 after rebate. Thought I try it for that cheapo price and see what happens no big deal. I do have 2 XFX HD 6850 running in crossfire and it is working and detected. Now instead of getting new cards, which I do think would be a waste, im looking at getting another motherboard(figured I would wait and see when the I get the actually game)
Perhaps:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131655
ATI CrossFireX Technology Dual PCIe 2.0 x16 slots support ATI CrossFireX to bring you a breakthrough gaming experience (@ dual x16 speed). ATI CrossFireX boosts image quality along with rendering speed, eliminating the need to scale down screen resolution to get high quality images. CrossFireX allows higher anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, shading, and texture settings.

This is really the only good one I can see right now..what do you think?

Looks like a solid board to me.

[(TKC)-o]T3[o]

Spend a little extra and go with a Asus Republic of Gamer board like this...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131644

Spend a little extra and go with a Asus Republic of Gamer board like this...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131644

That's pretty good actually. I was tired and didn't bother to look into any other boards, but the ROG boards are VERY good.

[(TKC)-o]T3[o]

Yep.. I have an ROG board myself.

if you go with the ROG board, get the Crosshair V with the 990fx chipset that way you can upgrade to bulldozer if you want to later.

There is no problem with the cards but the mobo yes and that 's why if i was you i would go with the ASUS, T. is right you have to put a little more for your mobo. bro.

if you go with the ROG board, get the Crosshair V with the 990fx chipset that way you can upgrade to bulldozer if you want to later.

This board shows only for AM3 socket,and isnt the Bulldozer for AM3+?, so this board wont work for the bulldozer and thats fine, I like my 965 CPU.

if you go with the ROG board, get the Crosshair V with the 990fx chipset that way you can upgrade to bulldozer if you want to later.

This board shows only for AM3 socket,and isnt the Bulldozer for AM3+?, so this board wont work for the bulldozer and thats fine, I like my 965 CPU.

Here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131735

about $20 more than the one T linked and that will get you Bulldozer compatibility if you upgrade in the future.

It would be a good choice

if you go with the ROG board, get the Crosshair V with the 990fx chipset that way you can upgrade to bulldozer if you want to later.

This board shows only for AM3 socket,and isnt the Bulldozer for AM3+?, so this board wont work for the bulldozer and thats fine, I like my 965 CPU.

its a AM3+ socket. the socket is black which signify's its a AM3+ socket.
it also will come pre packaged with a bulldozer cpu

[(TKC)-o]T3[o]

The one crimson posted looks like a good choice because of the upgrade option. I built my current computer, mobo, etc, for BC2, but was able to upgrade it with a new CPU and 2 GPU's for BF3 and it works great. It saved me some money not having to upgrade the whole thing.

The one crimson posted looks like a good choice because of the upgrade option. I built my current computer, mobo, etc, for BC2, but was able to upgrade it with a new CPU and 2 GPU's for BF3 and it works great. It saved me some money not having to upgrade the whole thing.

Speaking of upgrading, have you seen the LGA 2011 motherboards? Some of them have 2 DIMM slots on EACH side of the CPU socket. It looks really cool IMO!

Not really

am3 and am3+ are the exact same sockets. if you buy a new board i would go with 990 chip just because it will have UEFI's which are pretty awesome. also republic of gamers boards are expensive for 2 main reasons. 1 for major overclocking so they have ROG connectors and better capacitors. 2nd they have Xfi sound cards built in so your getting a 100 dollar xfi sound card built into your mother board. hands down thats worth the extra money.