SLI just for Dual Video?

[TomWaits]

I know it's designed for using identical (Nvidia only?) video cards in the two PCIe slots, but I wonder if the chipset infrastructure would allow one to install a high-performance bells & whistles multimedia sound card in one of the PCIe slots instead? If so, it might make sense to get an SLI board. Of course, I haven't seen one word about PCIe sound cards, so this supposition is moot for now, but it just seems way too specialized a system if all the setup can be used for is two video cards for an uber-gamer rig.

 

[endyen]

At present, the best sound cards do not use all of the potential of normal pci. They will see zero gain from going to pci-exp @ 1X. It will be a very long time before anyone makes a sound card that will fit in a pci-exp 16X slot.

 

[Crashman]

Just get a board with some PCIe x1 slots. Most PCIe boards will have them.

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