PCI E 16X SLI question

Tim Burton · Post by **Tim Burton** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:16 pm

So most SLI boards have PCI E running at 8x and 8x? I know that makes a bottleneck, but how much of a bottle neck. If the GPUs are only using 5x and won't use 8x for a generation or so, it wouldn't really matter, but if they are presently using 9x, obviously it would.

I was looking at the Infinity and Asus boards, and I was told that they all are 2-8x PCI-E slots for SLI, except the 230 dollar Asus board, which I don't have that kind of money for.

Any suggestions or answers?

These are the two boards I am looking at:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131540

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813136158

I really like the Asus HeatPipe, but scared of the PCI-E 16x issue.

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:24 pm

If you are even considering $150-160 you need to just get the DFI LANPart NF4 SLI board. For a guy who will end up doing some tinkering and tweaking it is the best board you can get.

Tim Burton · Post by **Tim Burton** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:33 pm

Ok, any info on the 16X question?