EVGA and Asus are using NF200 chips to double the pciE lanes, well actually they remain the same, but the lanes can be shared more efficiently between more devices... at least in theory, in some scenarios it doesnt help or even makes things worse.
Asus even went for a dual nf200 implementation now and launched an X58 board with 2 nf200 chips!
How much is this worth it to you?
How much are you willing to spend extra on a board to have extra pciE slots?
Please think of how much you spent for your last board, and then add some to it and tell me how much would be too much and youd go for another version of that board without PLX/NF200.
Thanks!
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