Soldato
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So this motherboard should be good ? https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...cket-1151-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-31w-ms.html I not PC expert and I trying my best to understand all this thinks with PCIe and 16x 8x. I read on some other forums people say Nvidia cards only work on 16x 8x and it not work in 4x. I already have good motherboard Asus maximus Code I really like it, but this board have only 2 PCIe that support 2 cards in 8x but Aorus cards take almost 3 slots. So there is not enough airflow to first card. I run 3D Mark test with SLI for medium PC, temperature was 82C on first card on second i think it was 42 or higher. If I will run test for ultra PC I think I will overheat my first card.
the board will work fine, personally i prefer Asus and Gigabyte but in terms of that MSI board performing I can fault it.
The aorus's will sit in the 1st and 3rd slot with 1 slot of gap between them - board should come with SLi bridge for that gap as well.
Nvidia cards only work in lowest case x8 bandwidth- this limit has been in place for a long time. If you get board and want to research, Gen 2.0 PCIe SLi was also x8 & x8 bandwidth for SLi ... considering Gen 3 offers twice the performance, surprised nvidia didnt lax the requirements
also depends on your case, I had two Aorus 580 XTRs which do put out a lot of heat for what they are but was right next to 3 120mm front fans
an extreme food for thought
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Phanteks Glacier GTX 1080 Ti Gigabyte Aorus GPU Full Water Block with RGB Lighting - Black= £124.99
- 1 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC 1080 Ti GTX Aorus - Nickel + Plexi= £104.99
if yoy like RGB and have the Xtreme version with the RGB backplate, the phanteks block is awesome!
again depends on your ability to watercool