Quote Originally Posted by faior View Post
I was talking about the one review which has 33 pages, dont remember the address but perhaps you know. There seems to be very small performance gain to 9950 .. the positive thing is the OC capability yes.

Im not very sure is it ok to spend 300 euros for .. lets say 400MHz gain?

Btw does this board has 3x 16x slots? I can only get 8x from the middle one, below from the primary one. Can it give 16x with some tweaking?
Maybe you should wait for some official reviews past the launch date from say lost circuits or even anandtech? Some of their results are not consistent with what we've seen from end users,and that clock to clock comparison with Agena shows that Deneb is even slower than Agena in number of apps which is practically impossible(so the test is not quite correct).I'd expect around 8-10% better performance on average,per clock, than Agena.
Also in Greek review,Kentsfield beats Yorkfield and Nehalem is some of those tests ,so you get my point.Also the power draw test seems a bit unrealistic.Again,I'd wait for official launch and reviews from more reputable sites(not taking away anything from hwbox.gr).

As for the Mhz gain,it depends om cooling used primarily .If you can get a good air or wc kit you are set for 4Ghz,which is impossible for Agena.
The board question: I'm not sure.Maybe there are some users here at XS who own it and can confirm/deny the x16 functionality of the lower slot.I think it's a moot point since these are 2.0 PCIe and they will not bottleneck your card ,even if you have 4870X2 it should be enough.