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

Anazro

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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.
 
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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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?

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