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Old August 23, 2009, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Linus View Post
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What he said. PCIe 8x has zero impact on performance at this time.
Then what would be the benefit to having 2 16x pcie slots? Thanks for clearing that up for me, now maybe I'll start saving for another psu and 4870 lol.

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I was running 2 4870's crossfire and my benchmarks were slightly better, but i found most of the games i was playing i had lower fps. going into VATS mode in fallout 3 totally lagged out every time, when running 1 card it was smooth.

Never tried SLI though

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