Comments on: Warning: These P55 motherboards will cripple your Crossfire/SLI performance http://www.hardware-revolution.com/p55-motherboards-crossfire-sli-performance-problem/ Find out how you can build a remarkable custom computer and save money in the process. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Philip Bowyer http://www.hardware-revolution.com/p55-motherboards-crossfire-sli-performance-problem/#comment-8889 Philip Bowyer Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:09:00 +0000 http://www.hardware-revolution.com/?p=2306#comment-8889 I just bought the Asus Maximus III Gene as recomended by this review and it does NOT support 2 GTX 460 graphics cards. they require 2x 16x bandwidth slots and the Asus Maximus III Gene only has 1x 16x slot (and 1 8x slot)... your info is out of date! thankyou for nothing I just bought the Asus Maximus III Gene as recomended by this review and it does NOT support 2 GTX 460 graphics cards. they require 2x 16x bandwidth slots and the Asus Maximus III Gene only has 1x 16x slot (and 1 8x slot)… your info is out of date! thankyou for nothing

]]> By: Mehoppe920 http://www.hardware-revolution.com/p55-motherboards-crossfire-sli-performance-problem/#comment-7552 Mehoppe920 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:35:00 +0000 http://www.hardware-revolution.com/?p=2306#comment-7552 Had the Gigabyte P55-USB3 with 2 Plait Sonic Platinum 570's Ran fine but the Asus P7P55D-E Pro runs better bench marks in the FurMark tests. Had the Gigabyte P55-USB3 with 2 Plait Sonic Platinum 570′s Ran fine but the Asus P7P55D-E Pro runs better bench marks in the FurMark tests.

]]> By: Jayke http://www.hardware-revolution.com/p55-motherboards-crossfire-sli-performance-problem/#comment-7098 Jayke Sun, 10 Apr 2011 08:32:00 +0000 http://www.hardware-revolution.com/?p=2306#comment-7098 Has been shown in many website charts that the performance penalty is less than ~6% with 5870 CF @4x board. 2/3 fps. Now that doesn't mean a GTX 580 SLI won't suffer a larger penalty, but the major bottle neck on older "1156" sockets will likely the be the CPU on ~1080P resolutions with such a setup. Imho 2500k + 1155 4x boards are fine for 6950 CF. Imho this is a non issue, consumers with enough money for GTX 570+ SLI setups will buy 8x 8x or higher end 40x pcie lane boards. When lack of pcie lanes becomes issue for powerful sli/cf setups, the pc industry will have other solutions or moved to pcie 3. Appreciate your trying to keep consumers informed, but really only causing confusion. Has been shown in many website charts that the performance penalty is less than ~6% with 5870 CF @4x board. 2/3 fps.

Now that doesn’t mean a GTX 580 SLI won’t suffer a larger penalty, but the major bottle neck on older “1156″ sockets will likely the be the CPU on ~1080P resolutions with such a setup.

Imho 2500k + 1155 4x boards are fine for 6950 CF.

Imho this is a non issue, consumers with enough money for GTX 570+ SLI setups will buy 8x 8x or higher end 40x pcie lane boards.

When lack of pcie lanes becomes issue for powerful sli/cf setups, the pc industry will have other solutions or moved to pcie 3.

Appreciate your trying to keep consumers informed, but really only causing confusion.

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