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Introducing the Multi-GPU Index
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Thursday, December 02, 2010
Foxconn Quantum Force Inferno Katana
Multi-GPU Scorecard
Index: 3.00
Optimized: 2x
Max Support: 3x
Optimized: 2x
Max Support: 3x
The Inferno Katana is another very pretty motherboard from the Foxconn Quantum Force line. What makes this board special is not the color, but the chipset. Intel’s P55 chipset takes a different approach to PCI Express by moving the PCI Express controller from the primary chipset to the CPU. What this does is allows Intel to produce a much simpler chipset and make the entire platform a little more affordable.
The slot layout almost mimics the Intel chipset diagram with the topmost PCI Express slots either being 16x with a single card or 8x each with 2 cards installed. The very last slot is hardwired to 4x and gets its bandwidth from the P55 chipset instead of the processor.
