Quote Originally Posted by perkam View Post
x8/x8 sucks for 4850s in CF. Go for x16/x16 if you can for optimal performance.

Perkam
Proof? x8 should be more than enough for this card. It gets about 15k in 3dmark06 and just the other day I got 10k on a 4x slot in my bosses computer I built, 8x is double that so its well within the limits as far as I am concerned.