My Dell XPS 600 is broken and I've had no hope in finding a new motherboard for it so I want to buy a new case and motherboard to house its old parts. It just needs to hold: 2 NVIDIA 7800 GTX cards in SLi 2GB DDR2 RAM Intel Pentium D 3.42ghz dual core with ht technology Any suggestions? I am trying to find the cheapest option
I seem to have found a very similar motherboard which should work: http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/motherboards_d/Foxconn/NF4SLI7AA-8EKRS2/ What kind of case would I need for that?
You will need a new case to house a replacement board as only Dell boards work in Dell cases and with Dell PSUs, so that's a new case, motherboard and power supply. Additionally, modern SLI motherboards are exceptionally unreliable. To avoid running into this problem again 9-12 months down the line, you would be wise to either only use one of the 7800s, or sell both and get a single card. You can buy a single card for $70 nowadays (Radeon HD4670) that will outperform both 7800s when working flat out in SLI. Doing this will also reduce your power usage considerably.
