| You don't need to sacrifice anything. Unfortunately I can't find the original article but it was at Tomshardware; they taped off (using masking tape) the connectors responsible for designating the speed of the PCI-e connection on a 6800 Ultra to test its affect on performance, it even went down as low as 1x. They decided 4x was all that was really needed. On that card (if it is real, and it doesn't look it), there's at least 8x left on it (cos the pins start from left to right), but you need to cut it down to 8x (not ideal) or tape off the other unneeded ones (better). |