Says mister GTX480. :shifty:

Mine IS inadequate, so it doesn't worry about it any more.:sunny:

I know one thing for sure, if I owned this computer and didn't sell it's parts, I'd definitely get it insured.

Ya know, I heard that these 480s actualy perform worse when you have quad SLI, its better in tri...:yep:

I've heard that most tri-sli(rhymes) boards, don't really run all cards at 16x, but have to drop one or even two into x8. So I guess the same would apply for this board.

:)

Currently the max number of channels you'll find in the top-tier X-58 chipset is 36, which results in 16x/8x/8x (tri) or 8x/8x/8x/8x (quad). So no matter if you have 3 or 4, same number of lanes is used. Improvement with 4th card is minor at best, if it exists at all.

Even the top Nvidia chips won't give you more than 3 x16 slots, but more typically it's 16x/16x/8x, or you get 2 x16 PCI-e 2.0 slots and 1 x16 PCI-e 1.1 slot. 1.1 has half the bandwith from 2.0, so it's the same as plugging it into a 8x 2.0 slot.

* it's a frickin rip-off, seriously. I remember when they started marketing memory kits as "SLI ready", while there is no connection at all between how many cards you have and what modules are installed.