Im currrently using this motherboard BIOSTAR A870U3,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138318 with this processor AMD Phenom II X4 925 Deneb 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Desktop. The Os on the system is winXP pro 32 bit, with the ati 11.8 drivers( tried 11.7 also). Here is the issue I'm having if I just put 1 video card in the system it works fine but when I add a 2nd it seems to cut the mining speed on the cards down by about a 1/3. If I tell it to stop mining on 1 of the cards the other goes back to full speed. I've tried different cards,and an Sempron 145 and I connected another power supply up to it which is 1000w's to just rule out that stuff. I've also tried with the poclbm-GUIminer and CG miner.
I'm pretty new to this stuff so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I do have another system which has 3 video cards in it and it's all working fine. It's running windows 7 though but I just can't figure out the issue with this one.