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Hello guys, Refering to the techpowerup article, I wouldn't see any difference between x8 and x16. Nevertheless, this article was made upon "old" graphic engines, and I don't know if it can be compared to the Frostbite 2. I have been playing Battlefield 3 Open Beta since its launch until its...

Ok.

Indeed, but ?

Thank you guys for your answers. So, I tried and it doesn't work at all. While the Perc 5/i is at pci express x4, it is not recognized by the chipset. Then, this lovely message appears : "impossible to find a proper boot device". I noticed that there was indeed less than 2% performance...

Hi, this is my rig: 2600k MSI P67A GD55 Dell Perc 5/i (pci express x8) (3 WD caviar black in Raid 0) Radeon HD 5870 Due to the limitations of the P67 chipset which cannot handle two pci express devices at x16 each one, my 5870 runs at pci express x8. I would like to know if putting the Dell...

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Very fast answers. Thank you very much! Greetings from France.

Hello everyone, I know this subject has often been raised but I take this opportunity to relaunch it in order to have more recent evidence, and, as far as possible, very recent. I recently acquired a Dell Perc 5 / i (for those who do not know what it is, it is a SAS controller card in...