3 5850's?

[madass]

Any point in sticking 3 HD5850's on an AMD 790fx? Wont the GPUbe bottlenecked by the x8 PCIe slots when in tri fire?

 

[randomizer]

An 8x slot has plenty of bandwidth for a 5850.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Remember they are 8X @ PCIe 2.0 signaling freq, so that's really fine for those cards.

 

[randomizer]

Silly me, making statements without data to back them up!

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/25.html

 

[madass]

Silly me, making statements without data to back them up!

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/25.html

Thanks......
Who the hell give a *** for 2 %?
However will I get a decent boost with a third card? I dont wanna add a third acrd for a 2fps increase.

 

[randomizer]

I haven't seen any triple card benchmarks so I don't know. It will be game-dependent anyway.

 

[madass]

Ok then....