Quote Originally Posted by Oj101 View Post
With the AMD\ATi merger you'd think that Intel and nVidia would be closer together, not trading blows
thats what NV wanted but NV screwd intel with the crap that they put out and it was an embarrassment for intel. and any1 saying that NV makes good chipsets on amd, they always made the lowest tier, u had via/s3 and amd/ati above them in every generation of socketA, 754, and 939 then in am2 NV payed amd to not relies a chipset affter the ati merger and look what that gave them.

and for the 16x 3 way, why would u even want that using a routing chip and only having 36 usable lanes like the x38/48 and just wiring them electrically 16x wastes space on the pcb and makes things do more than they need for a little more synthetic bandwidth but more latency, and if u want to go like that u can get an asus board with x48 and 64 lanes with duel plx chips, with routing u can make as amny pipes as u want but u cant use more bandwidth than the IO so its pointless