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ShadowFold

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farlex85

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Mail-in rebates and its $200, you can't beat that. Now if only they had a 16x16 cf board that wasn't over $200.....
 
suraswami

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ShadowFold

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That is 16x + 16x , or Quad 8x.
 
farlex85

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What about intel?
 
ShadowFold

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ATi cards scale well with less bandwidth. A 4x interface would only lose you about 5-10% performance.
 
suraswami

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Memory Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 16GB + Patriot Memory DDR3 1866 16GB
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so even a 8x + 8x will be good? will it be better than 1 at 16x?
 
zaqwsx

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Benchmark Scores 3Dmark06 10712 single card and no oc, 12071 with cpu @ 2.8ghz and card oced, 13877 with crossfire.
Most likely. You have to gpu's working together
 
ShadowFold

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8x + 8x is good.. I would prefer 16x + 4x tho, thats more bandwidth!
 
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Card went down it price.. its only $100 after MIR
 
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