hello,
a little hardware question
i have a Asus Rampage 2 Extreme motherboard which contains 3 pci-e slots 16x-16x-??x
i have 2 pci-e slots used by 2 gtx280 graphic cards in SLI
is it possible to have in the third pci-e slot an adaptec 5405 8x to do raid 5 with 3 ou 4 hard disks
in that way, what is the speed of this third pci-e slot ? 8x, 4x, less?
and also i would like to know if my 2 graphic cards stay in 16x or if the speed of the second card fall down to 8x?
its weird because i see that specification:
"3 x PCIe2.0 x 16 slot, supports x 16, x8, x8, or dual x 16 speeds"
at last, what the impact on the SLI performances?
because of the SLI, i will pass from 16x-16x-1x to 16x-8x-8x.
is someone know the SLI performance difference?
is the SLI saturate the bus in 16x-16x? in that case there will be a performances fall...
edit: i heard there is maybe compatibility problem when we mix graphic cards & non graphic cards in that slots. is that true?
thanks
a little hardware question
i have a Asus Rampage 2 Extreme motherboard which contains 3 pci-e slots 16x-16x-??x
i have 2 pci-e slots used by 2 gtx280 graphic cards in SLI
is it possible to have in the third pci-e slot an adaptec 5405 8x to do raid 5 with 3 ou 4 hard disks
in that way, what is the speed of this third pci-e slot ? 8x, 4x, less?
and also i would like to know if my 2 graphic cards stay in 16x or if the speed of the second card fall down to 8x?
its weird because i see that specification:
"3 x PCIe2.0 x 16 slot, supports x 16, x8, x8, or dual x 16 speeds"
at last, what the impact on the SLI performances?
because of the SLI, i will pass from 16x-16x-1x to 16x-8x-8x.
is someone know the SLI performance difference?
is the SLI saturate the bus in 16x-16x? in that case there will be a performances fall...
edit: i heard there is maybe compatibility problem when we mix graphic cards & non graphic cards in that slots. is that true?
thanks