Z68 PROBLEM

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Can some one prove me wrong, ok i had the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 to start with and 2x 6970's, found this was stable running eyefinity but i needed more fps in some games, my next upgrade was the Extreme7 with the nf200 chip so i could run trifire 3x 6970's but i have never been able to get most games to run smooth with 3x cards and eyefinity all i ever got was massive fps drops less than running on 2 cards, also lots of mouse to screen lag, so much you couldn't play the games..BF3 BC2 etc, anyway i had an idea to get a single 6990 and 6970 so i;m only useing 2 pcie lanes hoping this would fix it but no, it did the same! i have done so much testing with the 2 boards but just cant get it to run smooth with 3 cards, replaced all the main parts but nothing would do it drivers etc, Anyway my final idea was to try a p67 board, so i got a MSI GD-55 replaced this for the Extreme7 without any change in OS as it had the Asrock drivers still, just needed to install the MSI drivers it needed, so then i went to try the normal games with tri 6990/6970 and it bloody worked after NO JOKE 4 months of testing and i put a p67 chip board in and it's fixed????? So i think the z68 chip with its ability to use the onboard gpu must give the pcie lanes a problem.. no idea what but from what i have done im 99% sure. just for ref the tri and even quad fire would work fine on a single dispaly with z68 chip smooth etc.. Anyway it's fixed and im 1k lighter for trying all this but will just need to sell the z68 boards etc. :) on my mobile so it maybe hard to read lol
 
I agree it must be a NF200 problem, or even Asrock boards as they have a unique chip called PLX im not sure if this is on all the models.

Running BF3 at 5760x1200 Ultra settings and NoAA I get a steady 60-120fps on Tri, with just the 6990 I im getting 45-80, even with the 6990 on the Z68 extreme7 it just didn’t feel rite but does on the P67 also I don’t get a massive performac jump in BC2 on the p67 tri it will run all MAX 8xAA etc unlike before. at a steady 70fps but very smooth unlike before aswell :)
 
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