Recent content by NeedForSpeed73

I've seen that "staggering gain" too and i was surprised by that: before seeing these first reviews I was even thinking to skip first Nehalem wave (1366) because many people on forums were sure that i7 architecture wouldn't have been a big improvement for games due to the fact that most today's...

AFAIK apart from the power supply characteristics (PCI-Ex 2.0 can supply much more watts via the slot), the main difference between 1.0 and 2.0 is the clock speed they are working at (100Mhz vs 250Mhz). Doing some very rough calculations PCI-Ex 2.0 8x might even be faster than PCI-Ex 1.0 16x...

Hi everybody, I'm about to move my Triple-SLI of 280GTXs from Core 2 to Core i7. As many of you already know, X58 chipset provides enough electric channels only for two PCI-Ex 2.0 16x slots, so on motherboards with three 16x slots when all of them are populated two of them revert to 8x; to get...