NF-200 nVidia Chip

Thomas123456789

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I recently bought a GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 motherboard and a nVidia gtx 590 card for my computer. After I received the board I read that the NF-200 chip (which the board has), only helps your computer's graphics performance if you are running 3+ SLI. The article also said that the NF-200 adds latency. I was wondering if this is true and if so, it would be worth it to swap out the motherboard for one that doesn't have the NF-200 chip because I am only running one graphics card.
Thanks in advance!! :D
 
There's no reason to swap the board out. The kind of latency hit those folks are griping about is going to be so inconsequential that most users (99.9999998%) won't even notice.

The NF-200 chip was added to Intel boards that only supported a max of 16 PCI-E lanes so that more were available, as you mentioned, for SLI in configs greater than just a single or dual card setup.

The board you have is a fine board, and as long as it's doing what you want it to, there's no reason to swap it out if you already own it.
 
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