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Help me find a MSI board that best fits my need!

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August 28, 2014 9:27:13 PM

I have a Azza XT1 Case its a full tower. with a 1000W powersupply by EVGA
I'm looking for a MSI motherboard in the class of Z97 that can support up to about 3SLI or 4. But atleast a 3 SLI. The board also needs to accommodate a Socket type of a LGA 1150 Intel.

Also the motherboard has to be one of the newer Z97. (Got to have the new)

While your add it find a SSD that is 500GB but within 100$-200$ i don't want to go extreme on the hard drive rather buy more CPU and GPU Performance.

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August 28, 2014 9:33:05 PM

I don't think z97 can support 3xSLI. SLI is very strict on it's requirements of PCI-e lanes and z97 only comes with something like 16. (I have no idea on if that's how many it has)
For more SLI you will need an X platform like x79 or x99 along with an extreme edition CPU. While the new 5820k is a 6 core it also is gimped on PCI-e lanes. You will need a 4930k/5930k or better to use all of the lanes.
Even then they usually have an extra chip to support 4xSLI. I don't know what it is called, but it only comes on high end boards. I don't do much with x chipsets. Sorry. :\
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August 28, 2014 9:36:43 PM

icraft said:
I don't think z97 can support 3xSLI. SLI is very strict on it's requirements of PCI-e lanes and z97 only comes with something like 16. (I have no idea on if that's how many it has)
For more SLI you will need an X platform like x79 or x99 along with an extreme edition CPU. While the new 5820k is a 6 core it also is gimped on PCI-e lanes. You will need a 4930k/5930k or better to use all of the lanes.
Even then they usually have an extra chip to support 4xSLI. I don't know what it is called, but it only comes on high end boards. I don't do much with x chipsets. Sorry. :\


I seen these setups were theirs this thing that has a nvidia logo on it and looks like that takes multiple gpus. Do you know what those are?

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August 28, 2014 9:45:58 PM

Probably just running 2xSLI. The thing you saw was probably an SLI bridge. Pictures would help though. I don't know, but you might could run two dual GPU cards and get around the PCI-e limitations. The TITAN-Z is crazy expensive and the 690 is a gen behind though. :\
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August 28, 2014 10:30:58 PM

If you want 3-way SLI,I think you should go MSI Z97 XPOWER AC,It's support 4-way SLI,but it's not cheap...
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August 29, 2014 8:50:46 PM

PIEapple said:
If you want 3-way SLI,I think you should go MSI Z97 XPOWER AC,It's support 4-way SLI,but it's not cheap...


I found the board that best fits everything a MSI Z97 Gaming 7 It supports 3 GPU and it's got quite some power!

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