Quote Originally Posted by Computurd View Post
i think that if you puyt a raid card on a p55 you will be suprised with how well it doesnt perform. not sure but with less lanes available i would have a hard time seeing it work well. is the device x8? i know that there have been conclusive tests showing that the x8 restriction on the p55 does in fact hamper performance on video cards, even if not in sli.
I was referring to his ioxtreme...which is PCIe 4x. That should be no problem. As for a raid card, you may be right, but I haven't tried it. A P55 should allow one PCIe 2.0 16x or two PCIe 2.0 8x. I doubt there is a raid card out there than saturate that.