Help Picking a MB with Max Space between GPU's

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Hello guys I want to change my motherboard from Asrock z68 Extreme4 Gen3
To another which will give my a very good space between the two GPU's

The GPU's I have right now are two slot Msi R9 290 Gaming Edition.

Here a sketch of the layout
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?res...uthkey=!AOzombvzxUNt-fs&v=3&ithint=photo,.jpg

As you can see the space between the two is about one PCI Lane is they a 1155 MB out there with better spacing? I will also need one free slot for PCI 1x for my Sound card.

Am I asking to much is this the Max space you can get from Crossfire/SLI?

Thanks
 
One slot gap is about standard.

Are your cards overheating or something?


The Z77-UP7 (around £400 new of the top of my head) may allow you to use the orange slots furthest apart from each other, but what a waste of money.
 
stulid said:
One slot gap is about standard.

Are your cards overheating or something?


The Z77-UP7 (around £400 new of the top of my head) may allow you to use the orange slots furthest apart from each other, but what a waste of money.
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Not over heating, just top card is about 10-15c hotter than bottom. Kinder looking at option to bring the temps closer together.

I feel the bottom card is just giving the top card all its hot air.
 
Think you should just live with it (im sure you are not alone with top cards being hotter in a multi-gfx setup).

Im actually trying to read the UP7 specs as its a complicated beast and I think it also has about a one slot gap between the two slots you would use in a 2-way setup.


http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/product/2/4334/6676_big.jpg

The 1st and 3rd orange slots are what are used in 2way setups. The black one is for a single card on its own as its connected directly to the CPU.
 
I even changed them around to make sure one card's cooler wasn't damaged. But same results
I bought this new Corsair Carbide 540 great case and very happy with it. But I thinking it wasn't a good choice with Multi GPU's

My last case kept my two old cards 7950's at a much closer temp.

This what I would like to aim for again. I do understand the difference between a 7950 and 290 is all new ball game. But I still trying to sort of bring that 15c difference to much closer.
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?res...uthkey=!AJ1E0o5XrEGVK4A&v=3&ithint=photo,.png
 
stulid said:
Think you should just live with it (im sure you are not alone with top cards being hotter in a multi-gfx setup).

Im actually trying to read the UP7 specs as its a complicated beast and I think it also has about a one slot gap between the two slots you would use in a 2-way setup.


http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/product/2/4334/6676_big.jpg

The 1st and 3rd orange slots are what are used in 2way setups. The black one is for a single card on its own as its connected directly to the CPU.
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Yeah think you correct it is me being more picky that anything really. But its not worth £400 quid haa
Was hoping more like £100 lol
 
It is only boards with the extra PLX/NF200 chip (adds extra PCI-E lanes from the 16 supplied from the CPU) that I can think off that would possibly give you extra room between the cards. but these boards are shockingly expensive.

They are so expensive it maybe cheaper to buy a socket2011 i7 and X79 board. These Chips+boards have many more PCI-E lanes from the CPU, the boards have great spacing usually.
 
That does look very good spacing. Will see if I can find any build logs maybe with someone running two slot GPU's.

Thanks for your Help so far, done much more than I have happened to find this past week. lol burning my head out.
 
Nor me, but I could ask someone who may know the answer but he's in USA so may take a while to reply.
 
stulid said:
Nor me, but I could ask someone who may know the answer but he's in USA so may take a while to reply.
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Yeah that would be great. Interested if the space between two GPU is more than one Lane and a we bit.

Like on mine its about One lane and abit I maybe looking at two full lane would you say?
If you get me.

Thanks
 
Gutted looking at that board it will seem I won't be able to use my Asus xonar d2x sound card.
The length of the card won't fit in the pci-e1x slot.

So if I was to maybe use it in the middle of the two cards I might just be back square one? Or will it lower the pci speed down lol

If speed isn't changed with having it in pci 16X slot then I sure it will still be better for the GPUs as they will still be far apart.
 
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