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    Ocz WhiteBook Performance

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by dondadah88, Dec 22, 2008.

  1. dondadah88

    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    is the reason why the ati crossfire performance is not higher is because of the chipset.
    http://aliendl.alienware.com/Right_Now/5994/image2.jpg
    in here under bus interface it states that it is pci-e 16 2.0 but it is at 8x instead of 16. meaning that the bottleneck in the chipset and not the gpu's and driver.
    Would a bios flash fix this? or your just stuck with it because it is a mobo limitation.

    edit: here is the reason to my qquestion
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080920193755AAwRrWh
    http://www.interfacebus.com/Design_Connector_PCI_Express.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
    http://www.freshpatents.com/Bus-int...rocessing-units-dt20080911ptan20080222340.php
     
    dondadah88, Dec 22, 2008
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    mhooper1125 Notebook Evangelist

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    No the chipset is well built the whole support is boiled down to drivers and voltage at this point.
     
    mhooper1125, Dec 22, 2008
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  3. dondadah88

    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I'm a newbie sooo donn't hurt me to badly.
    Ok so you dont think the data flow limiting it self to x8 instead of x16 is a small or big diefference in performance?
     
    dondadah88, Dec 22, 2008
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    It's because Intel PM45 motherboard that support 2*8x. only Nvidia chipset that support 2*16x(I don't know about nvidia chipset on laptop) but it has similar performance.
     
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    Ok so basically all laptop chipsets are @8x when sli'd or crossfire'd
     
    dondadah88, Dec 22, 2008
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