Chipset for dual PCIe 16x?

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Iron Hawk

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Is there a chipset (either current or planned) that supports dual 16x graphics cards running at full speed (16x)? All I can find supports 1@16x+1@8x or worse. I'm planning on running dual 2900xt (1024mb) so I don't think i want a nVidia chipset.

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dudleycpa

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The X38 will support crossfire at x16 & x16.

Of course it's not out yet.

 

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Theres nothing wrong with Nvidia Chipset.

 

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UglyChild said:

Theres nothing wrong with Nvidia Chipset.

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Not if your using Nvida cards.

He want to run dual 2900s.

 

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Yeah, im kinda an ATi Fanboy, so I want to run something that will support ATi Crossfire. I heard a bit about X38, any one know when we will start to see that chipset in motherboards?

 

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Shouldn't be too long - This month or next (IIRC).

 

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Ohhh.... oops.. sorry, thought you wanted to run SLI.

Yeah, youll just have to wait for X38.

 

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about the only option left is a ATI based mobo. the current P35 is 8x/4x when in dual video card mode.

 

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Evilsizer said:

about the only option left is a ATI based mobo. the current P35 is 8x/4x when in dual video card mode.

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Yup, tho' there are/will be 2 Asus boards with a bridge chip that can split P35's 16X/4X onto 8X/8X... I have no idea on the advantage of this.

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