News J&W P55 board openly claims SLI support

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/06/02/j-w-p55-board-openly-claims-sli-support/1

COMPUTEX 09: J&W's P55 board is the first we've seen that openly advertises SLI support.

 

doesnt only having 2 x8 lanes means no sli on the top cards? i know my 8800 GTX's need 2 true x16 lanes.

 

What company is J&W?

http://www.jwele.com/about.php

LOL for being "the leading motherboard manufacturer" I think this is pretty funny that their stuff isn't available world wide...

 

I think it's 2 PCi-E 2.0 X8 lanes.

And I might sound stupid, but who's J&W?

 

J&W's previous notable achievement was a 780G AM2+ mini-itx board with pci-express, which would be great if stores actually sold the thing.

 

Uh, nope, 88 GTX's should work fine on x8s.

 

8x of pci-express 2.0 = 16x pci-express 1.0...
The current graphic cards still don't use the full bandwith of pci-express 1.0, pci-express 2.0 only came out because (if i'm not mistaken) of the power requirements, as pci-express 2.0 gives more energy (w) to the graphic card

 

That's what I believe to be true; I've never seen any numbers to support the thinking that a single slot card can saturate the bandwidth of 16 PCI-E lanes therefore a PCI-E 2.0 8x slot for each should also be sufficient. If you think about it logically, J&W wouldn't risk having performance-deficit egg on their face.

What really annoys me is the lack of a physical 4x slot, or open-ended 1x slots to accommodate a RAID card with your SLI setup.

 

I believe power is the word you're looking for there.

There's always the dremel approach. =D

On that note, does anyone else remember the "cut to fit" hilarity from a few years back when PCI-E was still new? That still cracks me up.

 

I think someone at MSI read my mind...

 

J&W are a big OEM company - they make motherboards for other people that are sold as different brands, so most of the time you won't see J&W on the packaging if you buy one of their boards.