SLI on my motherboard

Bill Stevenson · Sep 26, 2014

I have a asus m5a97 r2.0 mobo and was wondering if i would be able to sli 2 asus strix gtx 970 on my current board

Entomber · Sep 26, 2014

looking at the specifications, I don't know if it's supposed to support SLI since it only says crossfire support.

Eximo · Sep 26, 2014

Pretty sure the 970 chipset only supports Crossfire. 990FX does both.

Wolfshadw · Sep 26, 2014

No. Since the second PCI-Ex16 slot is only x4, you cannot utilize SLI which requires at least x8 on each slot.

-Wolf sends

barto · Sep 26, 2014

Nvidia cards really need x8 and faster PCIe lanes. Your board only has a x16 and a x4. The x4 will slow down the second card greatly.

Dark Lord of Tech · Sep 26, 2014

The only 970 board that supports SLI \ Crossfire is:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $99.99
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