Seven 650i SLI Motherboards Compared

Introduction

Following up on its phenomenal success producing high-end Intel-compatible chipsets, Nvidia is looking to capture more of the mainstream market. But while the 680i SLI trumped its competition on features alone, the new 650i SLI is considerably scaled back Compare Prices on nForce 650i SLI Motherboards. The most noticeable example of this is found in the number of PCI-Express pathways : While the 680i SLI offered a full 46 lanes for support of up to three PCI-Express graphics cards with two getting their full slot bandwidth, the 650i SLI gets fewer than half as many lanes at a total of 18, sixteen of which must be either sent to a single graphics card or divided among two cards in an x8 plus x8 configuration.

Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.