Is SLI necessary for gaming? Sure it is future proof, but by the time you need 2 cards, there will be new and better technology! Please advise me on what board to get for my new system. SLI or just PCI-Express? RED

It's not necessary, but I would definitely get an NForce4 Ultra, not a plain NForce4. SLI allows the option to do SLI later, which is kind of nice, but you better have a beefy power supply to juice up two video cards. Personally, I would think you'd probably end up just getting a better video card down the road, especially since it would allow you to sell of your old one for a little money. "Republicans in Congress are moving to ratify a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning, thus ending the Iraq insurgency."

So, would this board be one I should consider, or what would you do? Would you just get a quality board without SLI? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152 RED

SLI is the Nvidia dual card technology therefore you can only use Nvidia cards. Crossfire is the same technology except for ATI cards and is only compatible with ATI cards. Crossfire is coming out soon so if you prefer ATI you should wait a bit. Although they are essentially the same they have large diffrences. Performace wise Crossfire was supposedly better but that remains to be seen. One reason that I will purchase Crossfire in the future is that you don't need to have the exact same card to run 2 cards. You can have any X800 and X850 card and then you buy a master card which will activate the Dual card feature. So if you buy a X850 XT and dont want to buy two due to the price then you could just buy a X800 master card and you end up saving some money and having the extra performance. "by the time you need 2 cards, there will be new and better technology!" Yes but the technology would not be extremely diffrent and would be compatible with SLI or Crossfire so there is no need to worry. I really doubt that dual card setups would die out after maybe even 4 years. I dont think you have to worry, But in reality the performance gain is not that big around 30 percent I heard. And the cost of 2 cards is a bit high for many people.

a 7800GTX beats 2 6800GTs, in most cases

That's a good choice for a motherboard. DFI is reputable and reliable, not too bad a price, all the features you need, and the NForce4 Ultra chipset. Two thumbs up! "Barbara Streisand hasn't ruined the culture since Yentl."

Thanks fellas, I believe I'm going to pair it with an AMD 3500+ and 1gb of Corsair. It seems both of these products have come down in price lately!!! RED