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bg92

Expert
x4 on each gpu will not decrease performance by a lot, I read an article where a gtx480 in x4 was tested and there was only a slight decrease in performance.
 

Gorman

Author Level
The difference is marginal at best, the calculations in this thread also seem to ignore the way the cards are designed. SLI bridges both internal and external?, we are not talking about two independant gpu's on one card here.
 

Frenchy

Prolific Poster
The difference is marginal at best, the calculations in this thread also seem to ignore the way the cards are designed. SLI bridges both internal and external?, we are not talking about two independant gpu's on one card here.

Thats true, im just repeating what Ive seen while doing my own research. Even if they are sli'd internally they still only have x4 each allocated to each gpu, from what ive read on multiple websites. Although this wont be a massive difference, it still is a difference and a loss. Especially as both cards would be on x8 not x16/x8, so your losing a little but from both cards. Just seems pretty pointless if you ask me SLI on a board that isnt really suited to it.
 

Gorman

Author Level
The traditional way that SLI works either split frame or alternate, doesnt really lead me to think that each GPU is going to be talking at once, and i have never heard of each being assigned a certain amount of PCIe bandwidth.
 

Frenchy

Prolific Poster
The traditional way that SLI works either split frame or alternate, doesnt really lead me to think that each GPU is going to be talking at once, and i have never heard of each being assigned a certain amount of PCIe bandwidth.

Hmm not sure then, once im home from work later ill try find some of the articles I read about it, it was when I was researching about getting a 590.
 

faihaf

Silver Level Poster
Ok I got my Motherboard changed to solved the issue of 2 Gtx 590 sabertooth have two 16x pci and I got extra fan at 2 cost thanks pcs.
ASUS® P8Z68-V PRO: USB 3.0, SATA 6GB/s, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX™
Change to: ASUS® SABERTOOTH P67 (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, THERMAL ARMOR!
 

Frenchy

Prolific Poster
Ok I got my Motherboard changed to solved the issue of 2 Gtx 590 sabertooth have two 16x pci and I got extra fan at 2 cost thanks pcs.
ASUS® P8Z68-V PRO: USB 3.0, SATA 6GB/s, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX™
Change to: ASUS® SABERTOOTH P67 (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, THERMAL ARMOR!

As far as I know the P67 would be the same, its either 1 16x slot, or two 8x slots. As Gorman said earlier, it wont make a massive difference, all Im saying thouthgh is that it will make a difference, and to me loosing the smallest bit isnt really an option with the wrok I do where rendering times and game design turn around times are critical.
 

faihaf

Silver Level Poster
Ok I got my Motherboard changed to solved the issue of 2 Gtx 590 sabertooth have two 16x pci and I got extra fan at 2 cost thanks pcs.
ASUS® P8Z68-V PRO: USB 3.0, SATA 6GB/s, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX™
Change to: ASUS® SABERTOOTH P67 (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, THERMAL ARMOR!

I was told it have 2 16x pci slot I also did some search
Specifications
Chipset Intel P67
CPU support LGA1155 Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7
Memory support 4 slots: max 32GB DDR3 (2,400MHz)
Expansion slots Two 16x PCI-E 2.0 slots (one 16x or two 8x), one PCI, three 1x PCI-E
Sound Intel HD Audio via Realtek ALC892 with 8-channel support
Networking Intel 82579 Gigabit Ethernet
Overclocking CPU Clock 80 - 300MHz; CPU Multiplier 32 - 255; max voltages, CPU 1.99V, VCCIO 1.313V, RAM 2.2V, CPU PLL 1.9V, VCCSA 1.7V, Southbridge 1.4V
Ports 4x SATA 3Gbps, 4x SATA 6Gbps, PS/2, 14x USB 2, 4x USB 3, LAN, 4x surround audio out, line in, mic, optical S/PDIF out, 2x eSATA 3Gbps
Dimensions (mm) 305 x 244 (ATX)


http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2011/04/28/asus-sabertooth-p67-review/1
 
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Frenchy

Prolific Poster
Yup it has 2 x16 slots but if they're both used at the same time they share so they both become x8 as per the description you just posted
 

faihaf

Silver Level Poster
lol i dont know than guy on the phone said u need saberthooth i said ok lol if there is no diffrence why did he recomended me that one o well maybe he thought it better or somthing well pcs dont have any other motherboard so not much can be done other than i cancel the whole thing. mmmm i m confuse.com

which motherboard is better anyway oout of those two ??
 

bg92

Expert
ASUS® MAXIMUS IV EXTREME-Z this is the best motheboard out there you can get for socket 1155.
 

Frenchy

Prolific Poster
lol i dont know than guy on the phone said u need saberthooth i said ok lol if there is no diffrence why did he recomended me that one o well maybe he thought it better or somthing well pcs dont have any other motherboard so not much can be done other than i cancel the whole thing. mmmm i m confuse.com

which motherboard is better anyway oout of those two ??

As bg92 said, the maximus is the best, and as I said earlier on I believe it supports two at x16, but im not 100% sure on this.
 

faihaf

Silver Level Poster
Guys £120 more vs the performance increase i m gonna get with this motherboard does it worth it ??
 

faihaf

Silver Level Poster
finaly mine move to building woho
Processed Date
25-07-2011

Pre-Production Date
26-07-2011

Build Date
05-08-2011

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Sam Garner
 
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