Quote Originally Posted by DazzXP View Post
It doesn't bother me too much, 2nd Gen PCI-Express 8x offers the same bandwith as 1st gen PCI-E 16x and that is more then enough even for SLI/Crossfire. Unless software SLI/Crossfire is used. The thing that bothers me is the 3rd slot running at 4x which will mean you will see a slight drop in performance.
have you ever used the x4 pciE 1.1 slot on an x38 or x48 board? resulting xfire perf is worse than with 2 cards iirc