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I am using the GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 LGA 1150 Intel Z97 ATX Intel Desktop Motherboard and I am thinking about SLIing 2 gtx 1080 founders edition on it, but I am not sure which sli bridge to get, can someone help me out?
 
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First question why a founders edition card? You can get an oced card for about the same price. Something like this with a 1 slott spacing is what you need. https://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.3315158 and add antoher ftw 1080. The reason you only need a 1 slot is there is only 1 slot after the cooler between the cards.
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should look up tests on the expensive HB bridges to see if it will benefit you in total

[example]
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3087524/hardware/tested-the-payoff-in-buying-nvidias-40-sli-hb-bridge.html

I seen guys like over at evga forums did there own testing and really did not see a big gain to warrant that 40$$

http://forums.evga.com/m/tm.aspx?m=2488773&p=18

your sli bridge you got with your motherboard should still do you fine until you decide on whats better for you

like for me may not be worth it but then your not me

don't forget how much is all sales hype reviews or what is true fact ????

good luck
 
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I dont understand why if spending 1200+ on gpu's why you would not invest another 40.00 on a high bandwidth bridge especially when you can get a bundle deal with discount and mail in rebate essentially making the bridge free. But even if that were not the case. Why with spending that money, why would you cheap out on the bridge with it only being 40.00 or less when it might make a difference?
 
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???? cant say I'd just use the bridge that came with the motherboard unless I go that 4/5 k thing they claim it benefits in that and really seen that need for it .

then again to me anymore SLI means S-udden L-oss of I-ncome

and now how NVidia is jacking around with it and as well as developers makes it to me less value [opinion] just one strong 1080 should run all you need fine

no heat issue ,no power issue ,no driver issues, no maintainance overhead, finding most games may not be optimized for sli so you got 2x the money and find headach and 1/2 what you want may not utilize it .

don't get me wrong I did a sli rig ''once'' and after that never thought to ever go back to one [more opinion]

good luck
 
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For the most part I agree. If you dont need sli then it is better to use one card. I will be running three monitors soon and unfortunately will need sli again. It has been about three years since I have run triple monitors and sli.
 
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ya that may help it did help me back when I got a high res monitor sli was better then a single card still one strong card should push 3 1080 monitors back when my single 8800 did ok at 1080 but it in sli did better . but overall I never seen the worth after that

one thing I will say is get a board that slots for 2 cards are the wider apart you will want all the best gap between them for air flow to the top card .

that was one thing I did see [like seen from that guys chart above ] my top card did ''melt' away the thermal pads used in it were goners over time

thing is if you never did a sli set up cant hurt to do it and see . you may thing its the best thing ever then you may not and know better next time

that's just one of them to each his own kinda thing from the experience and what you run that's optimized to fully use it

 
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Yes and I am not running 1080 monitors thus the need for sli. Hopefully the op truly needs sli nad thus asking. I agree with having enough space between the cards for proper cooling. His board does not have but one slot between the cards. It is a bit of a gap and better than the cards being right on top of each other, but more space would be ideal.
 
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