Patent ID: 7782325

Claim:
A motherboard, comprising: a chipset for managing data transfers within the motherboard; a scalable interconnect connecting to the motherboard, said scalable interconnect supporting a number of interconnect lanes; and a plurality of high-speed video card slots connected to the interconnect, the high speed video card slots including at least one first video card slot and second video card slot; and a switch connected to said interconnect and adapted to convert the interconnect lanes into a plurality of distributed links such that there is a different one of said distributed links providing a connection to each of said plurality of high-speed video card slots, wherein the motherboard enables a first and a second video card to attach, respectively, to the at least one first video card slot and second video card slot, and wherein the motherboard enables the first and the second video cards to operate in parallel to output graphics data to a single visual display device, and wherein said switch is configured to distribute lanes dynamically during operation including data transmission to said plurality of high-speed video card slots responsive to changes in bandwidth needs during processing by said video cards.