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Old Sep 12, 2010, 08:04 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by TomBrooklyn View Post
I understand a 16x board is going to revert to 8x if SATA 3 or USB3 is employed on a P55 Motherboard. How much of a video performance hit is going to occur in that case?
A few percent or more depending on your GPU... which would be wise to provide.

/Nice necrobump.

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Originally Posted by Wile E View Post
In most cases, it shouldn't go down to 8X, but, for the sake of argument, lets assume it does.

The answer is, it shouldn't make much of a difference with all but the highest end cards.
Some motherboards do for some odd reason, probably not enough bandwidth.
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