Quote Originally Posted by RaV666 View Post
Well, there are folks out there without even pciexpress 2.0 support.Arent there 1155/1156 sockets kinda limited in the pci express department too ?
And it will most likely consume less power than 2xfired 6850s.
yeah, people without even pciE 2.0 support are going to buy a 700$ dualgpu vga... :P

and whether you run one 6990 at 16x or two 6970s at 8x, the 6970s will still be faster... dual 6990 each running at 8x doesnt make sense, first of all you lose perf, and second, who saves 100$ on board+cpu when spending 1400$ on vgas? 0_o

and a 6990, a dual 6970, will consume less power than two 6850s?

and yeah, you can watercool two 6990, but you can do the same with 3 6950s, probably spend the same on watercooling, but pay less for the cards and get the same perf out of it...