Amd Volcanic Islands details

[zalbard]

A lot of people use motherboards with pci-e 2.0. I can't imagine that this wouldn't bottleneck people running those boards especially since most default to x8.

Like I said about tri-fire it'll probably also cause issues at pci-e 3.0 x4 like the Gigabyte UD5H (works great for 7970 trifire) and MSI Mpower. I don't see how this has any pros for the consumer.

I agree. I think they rushed their decision a bit too much.

It's probably fine on 2011, but on 1155 some people's performance may suffer...

I guess there are two reasons to go with this: cutting costs, and they couldn't figure out how to solve all frame-pacing problems with the double-connection scheme.