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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: DarkStalker980x on November 04, 2011, 09:03:45 pm

Title: RevoDrive 3 X2 + GTX590 Quad-SLI compatibility
Post by: DarkStalker980x on November 04, 2011, 09:03:45 pm
Hi all,

Basically before I buy the RevoDrive 3 X2, I need to know how its all going to work and by that I mean PCI-E lanes VS Performance.

Using 2x GTX590 in SLI running full 16x 16x with nothing else occupying other slots is fine BUT, if I add the RevoDrive 3 X2 4x PCI-E card in the bottom 8x slot, this will limit my second GTX590 from 16x into 8x therefore system will be running 16x 8x 4x as the other half of the bottom 8x slot will be 4x and will be discarded ... doesn't X58 reserve another 4x bandwidth for the SATA/USB controllers/ports? which will still be locked at 4x even though nothing will be occupy  SATA ports?

Will I loose GPU performance from this configuration?
Will the 1st GTX590 at 16x have to wait for the 8x GTX590 and will it produce any limiting or stutter?

Dual GPU card so 1st card takes full 32 lanes 16x each GPU and second card takes 16 lanes split into 8x each GPU and then there was something to do with nForce 200 chip to double bandwidth or something

Note: N200 chips, on board GPU SLI bridge and the usual card to card SLI bridge

confused.com! been told too much so if you can work anything out based on the goop Iv just said I THANK YOU! (I dont usually ask noob questions like this but I need to know)

Cheers =)
Title: Re: RevoDrive 3 X2 + GTX590 Quad-SLI compatibility
Post by: DarkStalker980x on November 04, 2011, 09:13:47 pm
Forgot to mention system setup:

CoolerMaster HAF-X
Intel i7 980X @4.3Ghz
Corsair H100 CPU Liquid Cooler (Level 3)
Gigabyte G1 Assassin (B1) Bios F4
Enermax MaxRevo 1500W PSU
Corsair Dominator GT 6GB DDR3 @1992Mhz
*OCZ RevoDive 3 X2 PCI-E 240 GB SSD*
POV/TGT GTX590 Ultra Charged QUAD-SLI
Creative Sound Blaster X-FI 20K2 (onboard)
Bigfoot KillerNIC E2100 NPU (onboard)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit

Cheers
Title: Re: RevoDrive 3 X2 + GTX590 Quad-SLI compatibility
Post by: Aussie Allan on November 04, 2011, 10:46:18 pm



     Read this ....it should put your mind to rest.....


    http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/08/23/gtx_480_sli_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x8x8

  Aussie Allan
Title: Re: RevoDrive 3 X2 + GTX590 Quad-SLI compatibility
Post by: tiro_uspsss on November 05, 2011, 01:44:17 pm
Quote from: Aussie Allan on November 04, 2011, 10:46:18 pm



     Read this ....it should put your mind to rest.....


    http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/08/23/gtx_480_sli_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x8x8

  Aussie Allan

nice article/link! :thumbup:
Title: Re: RevoDrive 3 X2 + GTX590 Quad-SLI compatibility
Post by: DarkStalker980x on November 05, 2011, 01:45:52 pm
Nice! Thanks alot ... I saw a vid on youtube like this and found the same results = all seems good !

Cheers again for your help =)
Title: Re: RevoDrive 3 X2 + GTX590 Quad-SLI compatibility
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 05, 2011, 02:08:10 pm
Shouldn't be a problem when it comes to real world usage. ;)