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i am looking through that ATM, the part where it states the P55 has 2.5GT/s on the PCI-e lane, the Asus i am wanting actually has 5.0GT/s which is the same as the x58, but i was a bit dumbfound with the asus P55, i think it switches to pci-e x8 when using sli/xfire and then x16 when using a single grfx card, but judging by those graphs, either way it wont make a difference if it does drop to x8 speed.---EDIT, i rechecked the specs, that 5.0GT/s crap is the pci-e x1 slots( the tiny ones) so i guess they do run at 2.5GT/s, and my ass-umption was right, with 2 grfx cards they will run at x8 and 1 card runs at x16, but the most important thing is, when compared to the x58 in sli/xfire and the difference between x8 and x16 is hardly no difference (4 or 5 FPS)
so yeh, that P55 chipset is good, i was mainly just looking for the sata3/usb3 but now this is an added bonus to what i thought might be a failure! so thnx for that link!
but like i said, i am trying to aim for future proofing, but if they had sata3 and usb 3 on a x58 i would go with that, as then i could use tri channel and aim for the i7 975 or something, but the i7 870 is just about a 975 anyways, just in the cheaper cpu chipset
Oh and THREE 5870's!!!! that would be awesome!