I am curious if you will be testing any of the upcoming Z77 boards that feature the PCH(?) chips (i.e. Asus Z77-WS and EVGA Z77 FTW) to allow for x16/x16/x8/x8 PCIe3.0 bandwidth?? I would really love to see how they compare to "regular" boards...
What I am most interested in is something like "GPU/GPU/Sound-Card/RAID-card" or similar, so that it can be compared against other 2-card SLI/CF boards but with the added toll of the Sound/RAID cards on the CPU...
The reason I ask is because I am really, really stuck between IVB and SB-E, with the latter having my attention pretty much solely because with a Rampage IV Extreme I could run 2-Way SLI (2x GTX680's/690's), an HT Omega Claro Halo (or professional-level sound card...I do sound editing), and a PCIe x8 RAID card (LSI/Promise/etc) that offers an extra 8-12 SATAIII ports and hardware RAID capabilities...
I would like to see what, if any, impact the two add-on cards would have on GPU performance, AND what impact the graphics cards would have on RAID and audio performance.
It's something that very much interests me and is very much relevant, likely to a number of people who are also looking at a power-gamer + workhorse all-in-one type-rig, same as myself.
I have come to find your reviews to be impeccably performed and extremely well-written, Cadaveca, and while I would not expect you to go out of your way to crunch all of those numbers, acquire all of that equipment, and so forth simply for my own curiosity, I can't help but imagine that there would be some demand for results showing how well the IVB chips and Z77 chipset work with the "PCIe Expansion Chips".
Thanks, and I hope I at least got you thinking
