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The DFI board started out with a significant lead here, and then blended in with the ASUS. On the other hand, the ASUS seems to have a delicate lead in 1024x768 with 4x AA/8x AF, but that doesn't last long either.

FEAR

The ASUS board races out of the gate with a decent lead, but then falls back to stay in line with the DFI. So far we haven't seen any definitive victories (or losses) for either of our two boards.

Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory

In an almost spiteful fashion, both boards have scored virtually identically to one another here.

I think the concluions that we can draw are obvious -- either the modern day crop of video cards simply do not require more bandwidth than what 8-lane PCI-Express provides, or modern day games do not fully saturate even 8-lane PCI-Express with texture/geometry data. In either case, having dual 16-lane PCI-Express slots is currently, at best, a marketing gimmick. Based on our simple (but conclusive) analyzation, we can say that a PCI-E x16 SLI solution simply does not offer any performance advantages over regular PCI-E x8 SLI at this point in time.