best motherboard for me?

[JohnDorian]

Hey i wanna purchase a good crossfire motherboard.

My computer's specs are as follows:
850watt power supply
2 x Sapphire HD 4850's
GA-P35-DS3P
Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66g
4 gig ram
windows vista 32 bit

I'm deliberating between a few boards. Asus P5E, Asus P5E Deluxe or GA-X48-DS4. Are there many sufficient differences between each or between X38 and X48 chipsets in general?

[Apoptosis]

do you plan on going with an SSD hard drive in the next couple years or as long as you on a motherboard? Might want to think about an Intel ICH10R southbridge if you think you might.

[martini161]

if you want ddr3, x48. if you want ddr2, save money and get x38. they really are the exactly the same, but x48's are binned higher for use with highspeed ddr3

[hercules71185]

I'm highly confused about the SSDs... From the reviews I saw for laptops. They use MORE energy for some reason, and then they are slower.

[JohnDorian]

Na i don't plant to use SSD drives to answer your question. So your saying X38 chipsets cannot use DDR3 ram and if so, to what extent? I think i'm gonna go with Asus P5E, the X38 one, but can someone enlighten me on the cons. I think its missing eSata or something like that. Not quite sure what it is though.

[rudis]

How about a Giga Byte GA-EP45C-DS3R? It stands pretty high in my book.