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Thanks for clearing that up! :)

3DMark06 detects x8 as well. I'm not sure how to check pci-e bandwidth in everest, i'm not familiar with it, mind telling me how it's done? Thanks

I tried your suggestion, actually took everything out and connected it out of the case. Card is all the way in and there are no bent pins. CPU-Z still detects x8. But thanks for the help. Anyone with the same motherboard as mine willing to tell me what CPU-Z detects on their systems?

Hi everybody, I just bought GIGABYTE's GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard with Intel's P965 chipset in it. I read that this very chipset supports 2 PCI-express slots, the first one running at full x16 bandwidth and the second one at x4. Here's the thing, I put the 7950gx2 in the slot running at x16 and...

at least not any time soon, for sure.

Not a wise decision in my opinion, not with the 7950 selling as low as $520 after rebates on newegg.

All rights first off your assumptions are correct the new drivers are necessary only if you want to configure 2 7950gx2's in SLi, otherwise you can use the current ForceWare drivers. It depends on what resolution your running it at and with what settings, but I'm guessing that the lag you are...

Have fun burning your gpu, i'm done with this thread. ungratefullness is not tolerated by me.

Artifacting means you've probably overclocked too high, so there you go the one program that let's you overclock results in graphics artifacting. Edit: I misread your post, but if you're getting artifacts at the OC'd but factory clocks something went wrong when you installed the watercooler...

Uhhh.. Take two of these *hands prescription pills* and call us in the morning? :rolleyes:

What framerate are you talking about? give or take a few frames..

Check the steps here:

Aren't the diablo series heavily cpu-bound?

no actually if you don't have sm3.0 capable hardware those tests aren't even included in the mathematical formula to calculate the result, but the formula is devised with sm2.0 and sm3.0 scores in mind so it may or may not be representative when it comes to older hardware. All we're saying is...

Well Prey is virtually unplayable at any setting or resolution on my compaq x6000 w/ a ati x600, from what i have read that gpu is faster than the x300se, so unless you're playing older games i can't see making any use of the laptop for gaming.