8x 570i SLI

[bullzi]

Alright, ill be building the rig in my sig (rhymes ) for christmas, and the motherboard i got is >>GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI<< and it runs a single card at 16x (my 8800GTS 320MB) but in SLI it runs both slots at 8x, if i were to get another 8800GTS how much is the 8x vs. a single 16x going to bottleneck? i highly doubt ill be getting another card for a while, but just wondering if there was a major difference...

 

[TheLastWolf]

SLI doesn't really scale that well. You will barely see 1.5x the performance.

 

[Juice1]

When I looked at the title, I thought I would be seeing a link to a board with 8 PCI-E slots, then I was wondering why it would be based on a 570i

You probably will see a little better performance, just a little, but your 3DMark scores should up a bit.

 

[Cabbs]

A little?

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=335&type=expert&pid=6

 

[Juice1]

Let me revise...

You will probable notice a little better performance, and your 3DMark scores should go up quite a bit.

 

[bullzi]

ya but cabbspapp those sli benchmarks are probably 2 16x slots, right? this board im getting does dual 8x in sli or a single card in 16x

 

[Cabbs]

Oh yeah, forgot about that. Before the difference wasn't big at all in benchmarks and games, but not sure about now.

 

[an0nym0us1]

wow you're better off getting a single card and using the money on a Q6600/DS3 combo.

 

[bullzi]

wow you're better off getting a single card and using the money on a Q6600/DS3 combo.

ya thats what i have, a single 8800GTS (or will soon, its been shipped) and most likely im going to pop my 8600 in there and see if there is a gain or loss in performance, that will depict if i buy another 8800gts, that will allow me to test the 8x bottleneck somewhat, chances are ill just run a single 8800GTS and eventually get a new mobo with full 16x sli

 

[Atomic Rooster]

You can't run an 8600 with an 8800 in SLI. Or are you going to run the 8600, then the 8800 to compare performance?

Is the 8800GTS you're getting a G80 or G92 core?