I7-2600k, UD5 P67 board, will it work SLI?

DrKalashnikov

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I am getting mixed responses when I search. Does anyone actually own a setup or know this works?

Here's my setup:

Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 Deluxe
CPU: i7-2600k
RAM: Mushkin 2GB X4 1600mhz
GPU: GTX 470 SLI
PSU: Corsair 750W

I heard something about P67 only supporting 1 16x pcie...I heard it on a forum. I just don't know. I'm probably reading trash. Can somebody confirm I'm not making a huge mistake trying to put together the above setup?
 

Crashman

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P67 only has x8. It's the CPU that has x16. SLI works on it by splitting to x8-x8 for the two slots. The performance loss from using those cards in x8 mode is very small.
 
P8p67 Deluxe has a single X16 slot. SLI is accomplished at x8/x8, which isn't a problem at all, as current cards are hardly saturating PCI-E 2.0.

I saw a test on HardOCP a few months back, which showed even x4/x4 is sufficent for SLI/CF on current cards.
 

Crashman

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Really? I just did some tests myself a few weeks back that showed they're wrong, but that wouldn't be unusual.
 

Crashman

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SLI and CrossFire show different results. 4x hurts both noticeably, and hurts AMD more. 8x hurts Nvidia barely, but AMD noticeably. NF200 fixes both.

And now that you know "everything" you won't need to read about it later :p