Originally Posted by Oliverda
"One more pitfall for the AMD platform in this test session was PCI Express. The Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H mainboard is based on the AMD 790GX chipset which supports two ATI Radeon cards in CrossFireX only as PCIe x16 + PCIe x8"
It's x8+x8 in CF and not x16+x8.
They should have used a high end 790FX AM3 board for this test and not a AM2+ mainstream mobo.
i7 - X58 + DDR3 + x16+x16
C2D - X48 + DDR3 + x16+x16
PHII - 790GX + DDR2 + x8+x8
Yep, like the article was purposely skewed.. Phenom II, no DDR3, lol.
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