SLI Question

[Krafty]

Hey this motherboard here (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131232) has SLI but when you have the SLI going it makes the PCI-E slots x8,x8

Doesn't that mean that one PCI-E 2.0 x16 card will do the exact same as 2 PCI-E 2.0 with the x8 in SLI?


Thanks for the replies!

 

[GibsonSGKing]

Hey this motherboard here (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131232) has SLI but when you have the SLI going it makes the PCI-E slots x8,x8

Doesn't that mean that one PCI-E 2.0 x16 card will do the exact same as 2 PCI-E 2.0 with the x8 in SLI?


Thanks for the replies!

Sorta. If the card doesn't utilize all of the x16, then 2 will be a performance increase.

 

[J03]

Not really... Since AFAIK, no card utilizes ALL of the speed of a 16x slot.

 

[GibsonSGKing]

Not really... Since AFAIK, no card utilizes ALL of the speed of a 16x slot.

Exactly, if they did, then they would be bottlenecked by the slot, and have no reason to be that fast since there isn't enough bandwidth. You should see a performance increase, just not the same as if it was SLI with 2 pci-e x16 slots.

 

[Krafty]

Alright so having 2 9800 GTX+ will be better then one basically is what your saying?


I chose the 9800 GTX+ because I already own 1 of them.

 

[Jsy]

yes

 

[rohan23]

It also depends on your resolution and the other components of your build. If a game can't utilize SLI, then you won't see any improvements.