Hi I know they would only run at 8 x speed but if I have my i5 CPU @3.8GHz would it stop and bottleneck and work out ok ?
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Hi I know they would only run at 8 x speed but if I have my i5 CPU @3.8GHz would it stop and bottleneck and work out ok ?
AFAIK it should work totally fine without the CPU or the PCI-E slots bottlenecking.
The performance drop from full bandwidth is a couple of percent if that.
TechPowerUp have done some testing that backs up the number of PCIe lanes not being a bottleneck. I was quite surprised how well a 5870 performed on a single PCIe 2 lane.
Makes no difference I am using a 30" monitor ? and game at full res ?
It will make around 3FPS difference at most, which could be down to a number of things when comparing X58 and P55.