motherboard with video card

[gadriand]

ok im buying a asus motherboard and it has SLI capability with 16pipes but i have a 20 pipe card can i still use my card?

 

[misry]

I'm assuming by pipes you mean pipelines. Motherboards, with the exception of those with builtin video, don't have "pipes". Perhaps you would like to be more specific.

 

[gadriand]

the descrition for the motherboard said this:

ASUS has created, in its A8N32, a motherboard that will support some serious tweaking. With support for 4GB of DDR RAM, two 16-pipe PCI-E links with SLI, and an 8-Phase power design

so i assumed when it said 2 16 pipe it meant the video card ciouldnt be more than 16 pipelines. maybe i just read it wrong.