Posted: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:58:09 Post Subject: Running gtx 460 talon attack (msi) on pci-e 8x slot?
Looking at upgrading my gtx 295 to running 2 of msi's gtx 460 hawk talon attacks for some extra power, slightly lower running costs and a generally quiter/cooler computer .
My problem is im running with a gigabyte ex58-ud5 board at the minute and with my other cards(x-fi titanium pcie x4 card and pci tv card) ive kinda run out of space as gpu's are dual slot.
My idea was the put the 2 hawks in the bottom pci-e slots which are the 2nd and 3rd slots on the board but the bottom only runs at 8x not the full 16 unfortunatly.
Would I run into any problems sticking one of the hawks in the 8x slot? Most things ive looked at to do with the subject seem to suggest id only run into problems if i was running a dual gpu board, like the 295 in the slot.
At somepoint im going to put the 295 i already have in the 8x slot and jsut see what happens but what do people think of the idea?
Will I be able to run a hawk through an 8x slot without too much of a hit or problem?
Thanks for any help. _________________ Coolermaster HAF 932 II Coolermaster Real Power M1000 II Gigabyte EX58-UD5 II i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz II Corsair H100 CPU Cooler II 24gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz II 2x MSI GTX 460 Hawk Talon Attack SLI II Corsair F240 SSD II 2x3Tb Seagate (RAID0) II 1Tb Seagate 7200.12 II 1.5Tb Seagate 7200.11 II Pinoneer BluRay Writer
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Posted: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:11:10 Post Subject:
If I recall correctly, the one article I have read on this claims there was little to no difference using the a sli 16x setup vs a 8x setup. Obviously your sli setup will switch to 8x and the article showed basically no difference in performance while using a newer processor (i3, i5, or i7 -which you are using). Based on this, I would say you should have no problem... but I have no experience first hand. Hopefully someone else can chime in with a better answer.
Should be fine because it would jsut be like running through a 8x/8x sli config, possibly a small performance hit compared to if i used the 2 16x slots but shouldnt be too bad really and it will let me use my tv and soundcard still . think when i get the 2 cards and new cpu cooler set up im gonna spend a day or 2 overclocking the memory and cpu and making it all stable anyways which should compensate a little .
Probably fairly bad that im looking forward to actually re doing it all :s. _________________ Coolermaster HAF 932 II Coolermaster Real Power M1000 II Gigabyte EX58-UD5 II i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz II Corsair H100 CPU Cooler II 24gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz II 2x MSI GTX 460 Hawk Talon Attack SLI II Corsair F240 SSD II 2x3Tb Seagate (RAID0) II 1Tb Seagate 7200.12 II 1.5Tb Seagate 7200.11 II Pinoneer BluRay Writer
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