PCIe 3.0 x16 speed and PCIe 2.0 x4 speed crossfire

aarontay93

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Hi guys, I currently have this MB

http://www.msi.com/support/mb/H97MG43.html#down-manual

it's the MSi H97m-G43
I'm thinking on adding another card for crossfire but the MB descriptions says that the other PCIe slot is a 2.0 with a x4 speed config, I also am going to add a Xonar DGX to the PCIe x1 slot, will that take away/reduce the already limited x4 speed if I were to engage in multi-GPU?

is it going to cripple crossfire performance?

need answers badly, million thanks!
 
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You can always sell the soundcard :p

aarontay93

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Hi, thanks for the reply, the board has a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot running at x16 speed while the second PCIe slot is a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot running at x4 speed.

Also the sound card is from my old computer, wouldn't want to waste it, but if the onboard ALC892 is better, then I will dish it.

So is running crossfire on this board bad?
 

King_Potato

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You can always sell the soundcard :p
 
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