the MSI is AM3

your processor is AM3

you need to do a bit of research

that MSI AM3 board is 16/16/8

Why such an expensive motherboard?

What video card you have?

5850. My first choice mobo can run all I got perfecly fine, the only thing I'm worrying about is crossfire, but I might not use it, I might just OC my 5850 to 5870 performance.

This post was edited by Phoenix13 on Feb 8 2010 10:40pm

What are you currently using to game?

/e: is what I meant

This post was edited by PENandPAPER on Feb 8 2010 10:40pm

I'm going to use that for later on to run high end games.
Like dirt 2, crysis, pro street, I want to experience awesome graphics and dx11.

if you dont know that an AM3 motherboard takes an AM3 processor you got a ways to go before you think of OCing anything


Edit: and we all know, deep down, that your never really gonna buy this anyways

This post was edited by Ice98 on Feb 8 2010 10:41pm

No, you don't understand.

Your computer now, what graphic card/cpu is it using?

Now? It's a peice of crap, like a 200$ comp that can barely run css.
It's like a celeron 430 with onboard gpu.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Believe me or not, that's your choice; but you will never ever feel the need to crossfire that 5850 within the time it takes for a better stand-alone card to come out.

EI: You will never feel the need to crossfire until there is a better, single card that would outperform 2x 5850s.

Just my two cents.

whats the resolution size of ur monitor?