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Introducing the Multi-GPU Index
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Thursday, December 02, 2010
Foxconn Winfast NFPIK8AA
Multi-GPU Scorecard
Index: 2.75
Optimized: 2x
Max Support: 2x
Optimized: 2x
Max Support: 2x
The Winfast NFPIK8AA is a very unique motherboard that really pushed motherboard designs for the time. In the early days of nVidia SLI all of the consumer level motherboards were limited to only 8x of PCI Express bandwidth per card. Due to chipset limiations the only way to overcome this was to use more than one nForce chipset on a single board.
There are a total of five PCI Express slots on this board, two of which can support full length video cards. Slots two and four both are hardwired to a full 16x of bandwidth but are limited to the 1.0 specification. The slot layout indicates a dual card optimization with a total of two cards supported.
