x58 3 x16 lanes?

[emilyek]

Anyone know if and when that will be released?

Does it have anything to do with Nvidia 200 chip?

Anyone know?

Thanks

 

[JPB]

The Gigabyte X58 board is x16, x16, x8

The ASUS X58 board is x16/x16/x1 or x16/x8/x8

And NO. they have nothing to do with the NV 200 chip. These are Intel chipsets.

 

[Zap]

There will be boards that use the NF200 chip, which adds more PCIe lanes. One such configuration (if I understood it properly) is for a board to have two PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, one PCIe 1.1 x16 slot and one PCIe 1.1 x8 slot. Not sure how you can physically fit all the cards in there unless you use single slot cooling. All 3-way SLI cards are dual slot, so you'd need a single slot waterblock like the Danger Den that BFG uses.

 

[JAG87]

Originally posted by: Zap
There will be boards that use the NF200 chip, which adds more PCIe lanes. One such configuration (if I understood it properly) is for a board to have two PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, one PCIe 1.1 x16 slot and one PCIe 1.1 x8 slot. Not sure how you can physically fit all the cards in there unless you use single slot cooling. All 3-way SLI cards are dual slot, so you'd need a single slot waterblock like the Danger Den that BFG uses.

No, X58 has 36 pci-e 2.0 lanes, so you can have 16x 16x 4x (spare left for the smaller pci-e slots), or 16x 8x 8x if you populate three full length pci-e slots, or 8x 8x 8x 8x for motherboards with 4 full length pci-e slots.

With one NF200 chip you expand the lanes to 16x 16x 16x. This is what you want if you are going 3-way SLI, ideally, but practically there is no impact on performance.

With two NF200 chip you expand the lanes to 16x 16x 16x 16x. Pretty much no-one is doing this since you cant have 4-way SLI with 4 independent cards (there is no such bridge), and besides gaming the bandwith provided by 16x slots is not needed for anything.

 

[emilyek]

3-way SLI already scales awesomely on X58--- it's why I was curious.

The difference between x8 x8 on P45 and x16 x16 on X48 is as much as 10%.

3 true lanes on X58 might be really amazing?

 

[pcunite]

PCI-e x16 Gen2 running at x8 is 4GB/sec. That is pretty fast.

 

[happy medium]

Looks like this board has 4 x pci-e 16x slots. The only one of it's kind.

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/...c.aspx?ID=en-gb0000267

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813186161

 

[Sheninat0r]

Originally posted by: happy medium
Looks like this board has 4 x pci-e 16x slots. The only one of it's kind.

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/...c.aspx?ID=en-gb0000267

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813186161

I think you forgot the EVGA Classified.

EDIT: Whoops, x16 slots. Disregard this.

 

[z1ggy]

that foxconn board has a terrible review on it tho, I don't think having 4 pcie slots is really needed is it?

 

[happy medium]

quad fire setups yes. 4x 4890's in quadfire. Tri sli and physics gpu too.