Couple of other hardware related questions

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Originally Posted by Luciel

What i have found is that when people i´ve known to go Quad SLI is that the use dual gpu graphic cards like the 9800GX2 on 2 x PCI-E ports, apparently this way it does not slow down, of course the choice in graphic cards gets very limited then, i think in modern terms aside from the mentioned one, one of the gtx cards is dual gpu cored? dunno havent really installed anything gtx further from 260

Thats a myth.

The bus speed is 16x.

Some Quad-sli actually drop to 4x, others 8x.

No matter if its Dual GPU's or not, the bus speed if quad-sli'd will drop lower than 16x for both GPU's on each card. It doesnt work like 2 dual must mean 2x8 speed.. its still 8 speed