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

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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/Prod [...] _-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?

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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 [...] ng/26.html

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

Reply to mathewbutterfield

x8 sorry

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Lol! yep.. that's my dilemma

There's gotta be one out there!

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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 [...] ng/26.html

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scudst0rm wrote :

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 [...] ng/26.html

Wow! Thats EXACTLY the info I was looking for!

Made my day! Thanks allot!
:wahoo:

Reply to mrneil001

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/Produc [...] uctID=1957
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview [...] 952&page=3

In addition, there's the MSI K8N Diamond Plus

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Reply to mongox

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.

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

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] SI%20790FX

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

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