AM3 Micro ATX with dual x16 PCI-e ... is there such a thing yet?

[mrneil001]

Been searching and the only thing I found close to it was:

DFI LP JR 790GX-M3H5 AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136068&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Motherboards+-+AMD-_-DFI-_-13136068

but it has dual PCI-e running only at x8/x8... not x16/x16...

Anyone know where I could look for one or has anyone seen one?

 

[mathewbutterfield]

GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT has 2 x16 slots both running at x16 not 8x hope this helps

 

[mathewbutterfield]

x8 sorry

 

[mrneil001]

Lol! yep.. that's my dilemma

There's gotta be one out there!

 

[scudst0rm]

I wouldn't worry too much about PCIe x8 vs x16, even on a 5870 the performance difference is marginal:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/26.html

 

[mrneil001]

I wouldn't worry too much about PCIe x8 vs x16, even on a 5870 the performance difference is marginal:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/26.html

Wow! Thats EXACTLY the info I was looking for!

Made my day! Thanks allot!

 

[Mongox]

Anyway, here's one board that does have 2 PCIe x16 slots - in fact, it has 4 of them. 2 of them will run an SLI pair at x16
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal

http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=1957
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1952&page=3

In addition, there's the MSI K8N Diamond Plus

 

[mrneil001]

Mongox, you might of mis-read what I wrote.. I was looking for a microATX with dual x16 PCIe not a regular ATX. There are a quite a few regular ATX board out there that have what I was looking for, but no microATX... But after reading the above link, there is only a 2% difference when adding 2 5850 cards on a x8/x8 motherboard compared to a x16/x16. Thanks tho.

 

[Guest]

I found the MSI 790FX-GD70 is a monster that can do crossfirex dual x16

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4540506&sku=M452-6060&srkey=MSI%20790FX

up to 4 PCIe cards.. the last two are at x8