OT: new Gigabyte motherboard weirdness

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:38:57PM -0500, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> Now the note on the gigabyte web page doesn't mention the second video
>> slot going away, it says the first video slot goes from 16x to 4x when
>> you enable the SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 controllers, which sounds more
>> like they split the 16x into 8x for video and 4x for each controller.
>> This would certainly be better than starving the bandwith to the PCH
>> which already has 12 USB 2.0 ports, 6 SATA 3Gbps links and lots of other
>> stuff to do.

Oops, I made a typo.  The first video slot goes from 16x to 8x so
the remaining 8x links can cover two 4x links for the USB and SATA
controllers.

> ok like I just learned something new =) thanks!

Always a good day then.

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