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Originally Posted by techman95  wait SB and now IVY only have 16 pcie lanes?  Am i glad i got a 990fx board cause i filled up all my expansion ports and my usb ports already, and ive only had the board about a month  . how do yall use all the usb and sata ports on the p67 and z68 boards with 1 or more gpus? or is intels transfer system different than amds, cause amds just uses pcie lanes at 2000MHz to communicate between every interface from sata to expasion slots. |
To be honest I'd much prefer the extra transfer speed in SATA 3 and PCI-e on intel boards than a minimal fps gain through the x16 lanes an AMD board can offer in crossfire as opposed to an intel counterpart.
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Guess its just a matter of perspective though :)