imperialreign
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Is that not frequency your testing there as opposed to bandwidth? As in speed of port as opposed to size of port.
well, to the best of my knowledge, the PCIe frequency is directly related to the slot bandwidth . . . someone correct me if I'm wrong, but . . . the frequency is like it's BUS speed, how fast it can transfer and recieve data, whereas the bandwidth is how much data it can transfer and recieve.
in my system BIOS, though, I don't have any settings for the PCIe bandwidth - I believe bandwidth is automatically determined by BIOS. But, aside from the slot frequency, I do have settings for buffer length, link latency, root control, link mode and slot power.
I'm sure there will be difference between mobos, though
Please test this some more and compile your results into a single post. Once you get some good results, i'll test out the most interesting choices (if you hit a wall, or one result is faster than the others) and we'll see how it compares % wise to an 8800GTX
sure thing, I prob won't have a post on these test until sometime this weekend, though.
Question for anyone, seeing as how I've heard/read LOTS of different things about PCIE slot frequency settings - opinions on: how liable is it too high a setting could torch the GPU/mobo? Is the freq setting really only for keeping up with an OC CPU? Does this setting function similar to a standard PCI BUS frequency setting?
My own thoughts to those questions: I'm sure too high a setting for too long would damage something as with all components, but I think you'd run into some form of comm error with the card long before an actual serious concern arose. I think the setting has a lot to do with keeping up with an OC CPU, but I also think that it can help remove comm bottlenecks with some procs. And yeah, I think also that the setting is very similar to PCI BUS.
What are y'alls opinions?