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I found these two articles: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/08/23/gtx_480_sli_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x8x8/ http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/08/16/sli_cfx_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x16x8/ These have made me realise you guys are right.

OK so you are saying that if my friend was playing Crysis on everything maxed with max AA at 1920x1080 he'd get only 1 or 2 fps less on x8/x8 than on x16/x16? Do you think we'll be able to get >35fps even on the final boss?

The reason we are so dead set on a Crossfire/SLI setup is because my friend has a huge LCD screen. It's a 40" Samsung LCD. Obviously he is going to need higher resolutions to compensate and we believe one graphics card just aint enough and that we'd need two maxing out their potential at...

Yeah that Sabertooth is exactly what we're looking for. It's a much better price too. I think Socket 1366 is still the way to go because it's the only way I get x16/x16. Here's the barebones I've got planned: What do you think?

Remarkably I can get a seemingly better (than SB) 1366 rig cheaper than Sandy Bridge. I lined one up in Scan's checkout basket and it's £300 cheaper and that's even after the SSD and 8gb corsair 1600mhz vengeance memory added in, which I didn't put in on our first planned Sandy Bridge rig...

OK I guess I have to trade x16/x16 for Sandy Bridge! Unless... Which is better, Socket 1366 or 1155? I can def tell my friend that 1366 is not at all bad since my comp is 1366 and runs suuuper fast. It just struggles when you put it under a lot of stress in games like Crysis. And the turns...

Looks like I got a choice between the Maximus Extreme IV and Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7. Pretty sure that MSI one I mentioned only does x16/x8. The WS Revolution only does x16/x8, see here: http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=460&page=1 If Gigabyte's P67A-UD5 is...

What choices are there? I know, I know, "what's your price range?" Current rig I've got lined up for him is £1387 after VAT+delivery. He says too expensive. This is what I had lined up: At first I couldn't find any mobo that does x16/x16 that wasn't in the super high end price range...

If you haven't got a 16x PCI Express slot, God help you.

hey y'all don't know, some geeks gets they lovin, i got mad skillz yo, i got to show her my O face, know what I'm sayin? :D

Dude why don't you get the 5850 and spend the $90 on wining and dining your Mrs, and buy her a nice dress?

If you look at my other thread about my hard drive I think it could all be related. I've had a couple of power cuts or times when the electricity has flickered on and off, that's happened a couple of times when my computer was on and also when it was in standby. Ever since I started putting it...

Well I dont need any data recovered since I've formatted the drive during the time I could get to the Windows installation and it would be detected. But now, no drive, the installation doesn't even fire up sometimes. Thanks though. I was merely hoping there might be something I can do, or a...

OK this is scary. I put them back in but in a different order and now it won't even POST!

OK it worked fine with all three sticks in slot 1. Now what?