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290X Crossfire Query

Caporegime
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Hi all

Installed my 2nd 290X earlier and I'm a bit confused by something. I have a Gigabyte Z87X-OC (non-Force) and (latest) GPU-Z is showing them as running at 8x PCI-E 3.0 which is obviously right (when using the test in GPU-Z)

The confusion arises as I'm also running a PCI-E soundcard (Asus DX) in the bottom 16x slot which theoretically should knock the cards down lower due to the Z87 having 16 lanes max. Is GPU-Z right?? I should also state that while I'm getting sound ok, device manager is throwing up an error related to the soundcard but again I seem to be getting sound fine.

Any ideas?

cheers

Si


edit - Ignore, getting sound distortion in games, guess it was too good to be true!!!
 
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