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Is the gigabyte 970a-ds3p am3+ compatible with 2 Asus nvidia 660ti's?

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January 10, 2014 12:35:25 PM

Just wondering if a 970a-ds3p gigabyte mobo with an fx6300 processor can use 2 660ti's video cards

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January 10, 2014 12:44:59 PM

No

that board cannot crossfire or SLI

The cheapest motherboard for an FX 6300 that can is
Asrock 970 extreme 4
usually about $100

Or any motherboard with a 990X or 990 FX chipset

The gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 is around $130 , and is a step up in quality
pcpartpicker.com
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January 10, 2014 12:48:18 PM

boogalooelectric said:
Yes it can.


no it can not

Here is the webpage for the board .
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=...
With a 970 chipset it CAN NOT SLI or crossfire

It can crossfire X , but the second card would be in a x4 speed slot that will restrict the graphics card
And of course they would both have to be radeons
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January 10, 2014 1:00:29 PM

2 PCI-E 2.0 x16 interfaces with AMD CrossFire support

This is a quote from the link you provided.

But whatever.
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January 10, 2014 1:06:29 PM

boogalooelectric said:
2 PCI-E 2.0 x16 interfaces with AMD CrossFire support

This is a quote from the link you provided.

But whatever.


Im aware of what the link says
But crossfire and crossfireX are different
In a crossfire or SLI set up the assigned graphics lanes are split between two graphics cards

CrossfireX is a hybrid system that lets a non-graphics pci-e lanes be used for a graphics card and is AMD only tech . The second slot is always a x4 slot electrically even if it is physically a x16 slot . It kills bandwidth to the second card in anything more powerful than about a radeon 7770 so its not suitable for high end set ups

And it cannot be used with the OP's nVidia graphics cards in an SLI set up

so , yeah , whatever
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January 10, 2014 1:33:44 PM

So many folks read the marketing label: "2 PCI-E 2.0 x16 interfaces with AMD CrossFire support" but not the actual board specification: " 2 way AMD CrossFire™ (running at x16, x4 bandwidth)"

Here's my experience with that: (playing DiRT3, my favorite @ the time...)
- Single 5770 : ~50FPS (in x8 slot)
- Dual 5770's : ~55FPS (second card in x4 slot on Intel ASUS LX motherboard)
- Dual 5770's : ~100FPS (AMD system x16 / x16)
- Dual 5770's : ~95FPS (Intel system x8 / x8 ASUS PRO motherboard)

Lots of things effect the amount of impact an x4 slot has:
- the game
- monitor resolution
- CPU power
- GPU power (the more you have the bigger the impact)

But, there's always some impact for x4. There's a small increase in price to get x8 / x8 to avoid the controversy altogether.

As always, your mileage may vary...............

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January 10, 2014 1:37:01 PM

Correct jb6684 , and thank you for sharing your experience

but again it only works for radeons and the OP cannot SLI in that motherboard .

His cheapest option remains the
Asrock 970 extreme4
which actually runs a 990X chipset capable of SLI with the two x16 slots running at x8/x8
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