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Originally Posted by MaadDaawg
What you say AB conforms to what I've heard - only need the 16x bandwidth for the 295s. Luckily, all the classifieds will run quad sli at full 16x on both slots  |
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Originally Posted by punx223
i have run back to back with the 759 and 760 with quad 295's and have saw NO difference in vantage.... and mind you the 760 is 16/8 even in dual sli mode.... so 8x does not touch the 295....... now for future proofing I guess you could say future cards may be hurt by 8x, but my question is.... how much will they be hurt? let alone by the time such a card comes around will the classy still be the TOP BOARD or will EVGA have come out with a newer TOP DOG board at that time in order to keep the masses happy.
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There ya go MaadDaawg. Plus you gotta think about this. Say a single 295 can almost 100% saturate pci-e 2.0 x16 slot. It would require 100% scaling in SLI/Xfire for it to saturate the second one. Plus for benchmarking that will never happen.
Another "theoretical" thing to think about the nf200 chip. Any dual card solution from nvidia will already have an nf200 on it for internal SLI. So in "theory", the nf200 board SHOULD be slower with 295/ATI dual card solution (PLX chip) because of not only the added latency of one nf200, but three if you run two dual gpu cards. Now personally I think the only time you'd notice is IF you cared about 3-7fps in a game you are over 125+ on already. I really don't think you would notice until you started playing high resolution games.