UD9 or Classified 4-Way SLI?

[sabrefresco]

I'm going to buy a new high end motherboard. Which one is better?

[Dark Mantis]

To be perfectly honest I am not sure about the "classified" but the UD9 board is excellent apart from the SATA3 fiasco. The Marvell chip either hasn't been implemented properly or it is in need of a new firmware update. The thing is with being beta testers, which is what we are by buying into the latest technology, there are always teething troubles and we are the ones that have to sort them out.

[sabrefresco]

True that. As far as I know the UD9 has 2 NF200 chips, which will provide true x16 PCI-e slots on the 3rd and 4th SLI card. Does EVGA Classified have 2 NF200 chips? Because I'm looking forward to adding multiple nvidia cards in the near future. BTW, my current UD7 box and manual states that I can have a 3-Way SLI setup. But after doing a bit of research I found that the PCI slots will run at 8x. IS that true? This is the main reason for this topic actually. If not then I'm going to either get the UD9 or Classy 4WAY SLI

[Dark Mantis]

I am running an ATI card and so would be using crossfire if I added more but the principle is the same. As far as I understood it though the UD7 was capable of running three x16 cards at once. I haven't actually checked as it hasn't affected me so far and I am afraid I am a bit too busy at the moment to have a look. If you come accross any info please post it here for future access.

[sabrefresco]

For the record, both the classy and ud9 have 2 nf200 chips

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3820/asus-evga-gigabyte-msi-four-flagship-motherboards-reviewed/1