Is 16x necessary?

[BlackTigers91]

Okay, trying to break an argument up somewhere (my head ).

I know that there is one motherboard with DUAL 16x PCI-E lanes. Is this going to give one an improvement over dual 8x lanes? Or is it just there for marketing? I love benchmarks

 

[Catweazle]

A8N32-SLI Deluxe.

In my opinion an overpriced and unnecessary product at this point in time. If you buy one don't plan on adding two chunky display cards and a high quality soundcard. Unless the SLI'd display cards have single slot coolers you won't fit the soundcard in a slot. Worst motherboard layout of all time, I reckon!


But I'm sure its fans will differ with my opinion

 

[Jason711]

show me a card that uses agp 8x.

 

[Zinn]

There's a Gigabyte board with the dual 16x as well. Can't remember the model.

16x is only required for Quad SLI. So, in other words it is completely unneccessary.