Pictures of ASUS Blitz Extreme P35 mainboard

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eva200 i am aware of that. I posted abt that in computex coverage.
The thing is that does this chip provide another 4 more lanes for the south bridge or provides another 4 to the north bridge? or does it provide more than 4?

[eva2000]

Yeah i know you posted about that hence a bit of confusion as to why you asked but from what i understand

Regular P35 chipset x16 + x4

• P35 NB chipset <= x16 lane => Crossfire Master VGA
• ICH9R SB chipset <= x4 lane => Crossfire slave VGA

Blitz P35 motherboard x8 + x8

• P35 NB chipset <= Crosslinx chipset => two x8 lanes one to each VGA card in crossfire (Master/Slave)

So yes Crosslinx does communicate and connect with P35 NB chipset and bypass the ICH9R SB altogether on Blitz motherboards.

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I am not sure what does the Crosslinx chip supply., COuld it be supplying 8 lanes of PCIe . ICH9R still handles all SATAII and has that extra 4x not in use?

or does it supply 4 lanes in addition to the 4 lanes of ICH9R to make 8. anothre 8 lanes from north, thus 8 (NB) + 4 (ICH9R) +4 (SB) to enable crossfire

[eva2000]

I think crosslinx chip is just like an interface controller splitting the NB's 16 lanes into 2x 8 lanes.

I can see Blitz Extreme has one extra x1 PCI-E slot compared with regular Asus P5K series so probably due to freed lanes ???

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Could be. It could be a switch or a bridge