Quote Originally Posted by stren View Post
yeah - not sure why asrock went with the pci splitter on X79 to be honest. Maybe they're just look for a differentiator to compete with Asus. That Z77 pcb does say 4 way SLI though even if the heatsink says 3 way sli. Bear in mind that it also says z68 gen 3 on the south bridge, so I wouldn't trust the heatsinks - looks like they just reused the heatsink for the prototypes.
Oh sweet, good catch! I didn't see the printed 4-way SLI on the PCB. That is much more reliable than the tossed on heat-sinks that say Z68 lol. I hope they also mean true 4-way SLI and not just two dual GPU cards like some guys try to advertise as "quad-sli" capable. Quad-8X PCI-E 3/0 should be plenty fast for 4x Kepler, the same speed as Quad-16x PCI-E 2.0. This is the only Z77 board I've seen yet with the PLX chip. Look's like this may be my board for my build as long as ASRock doesn't screw up the BIOS.

Why not just go for X79 you may ask? Generally the 1155 chips like IB will overclock higher, be a lot cheaper, be faster in games clock for clock, run cooler, use less energy, and more than four cores is not used for any game that I know of.