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Funkiwi75 · 2011-06-05 16:54:52

Hi, I was just wondering if I got the Asus Rampage III Black Edition Motherboard and got 4 x 5870 graphics cards that would slow each of the 4 x PCIe x16 slots down to x8, would that be better than 2 x 5870 cards both running at x16 speed?

05-06-2011 05:54PM

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Funkiwi75

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Hi,

I was just wondering if I got the Asus Rampage III Black Edition Motherboard and got 4 x 5870 graphics cards that would slow each of the 4 x PCIe x16 slots down to x8, would that be better than 2 x 5870 cards both running at x16 speed?

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#2 07-06-2011 12:28AM

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no, theres a PCIE scaling tech article on tomshardware( sorry man im too lazy to dig it up as i read it about 6-8 months ago ), basically on x8 you have 10-15% performance loss.

You'll have more issues with crossfire scaling than you will ever have with the pcie slots and tbh youre nuts doing that, better off with 2 or 3 6970's or a 6990 with a 6970

Ignoring idiots who comment "far right" because they don't even know what it means

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