***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

[Samson]

well heres a thing ....!!

dunno if anyones seen this b4 but if youre worried about performance in gaming when mixing x8 and x16 then worry no longer.
The boys over at Hard OCP have done some pretty convicing testing using sli and crossfire at x16 and x8 and there is almost no difference !!!
Ok the board was not an R3E but I bet the results would be similar, maybe Ill put my Phys-x card back in ( tbh I never did see any drop in performance with it in there, but when I noticed gpu 2 in lane 3 was at x8 I took it out !)

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...6x16_vs_x8x8/1

just put them where they look best :-)

Yes. I read the entire article in your link. And the truth is I had already seen this kind of kind of test before.
In fact I once saw a post even here on our own XtremeSystems Forum where someone had tested a single
card in 16x and then 8x and shown the difference to be no more than about 10 points in some version of 3DMark.
I can't find the link, but I think it may even have been Ghostleader who made the post but not sure.

Only thing I disagree with the article is it says,
"...we are using the GTX 480 SLI because it is the highest "bandwidth" video card configuration there is and
produces the fastest framerates out of all SLI and CFX two-card combinations. "

Well this is not true. Still to date the Radeon HD5970 gives faster overall performance
(view full Fremi Vs. 5970 comparison)
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/fea...ungry?page=0,1
and has a higher memory badwidith than GTX 480 (177.GB/s for GTX 480, 256GB/s for 5970)





To Who it May Concern: I hate to repeat my same old story, but as you know this relates to my past questions.
I had my two cards in CrossFireX in slots #2 and #4. And though some people with a single card in slots #2 are
clearly getting only 8x

I can't run my card @16x on rampape 3 ,i used slot 2 ,help me

My own results with two cards in Slots #2 and #4 in CrossFireX were ambiguous. And even though I have now put them
in slots 1 and 3 it makes me wonder if in fact this board was somehow accepting to do 16x in slots 2 and 4.
(NOTE: Keep in mind I did have the PCI-E lane switches set to "off" for slots 1 and 3).