What modern video cards will my motherboard support?

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The last desktop I build was in 2007, after that I have moved to laptops with upgradable CPU's etc which can be found, but are limited to specific manufacturers.

So that Desktop is just sitting there collecting dust and I am thinking about replacing the video cards in it. The motherboard is an Asus Striker Extreme ROG model. It is not the fastest machine out there anymore and my laptops run rings around it, but I would like to replace the graphics cards in it.

Currently it has 2 x ATI 4870's

From Asus website it has:

PCI Express x16

2 x PCI Express x16 slot,support NVIDIA SLI technology,at full x16,x16 speed(blue)
1 x PCI Express x16, at x8 speed(middle)
PCI Express x1
1 x PCI Express x1
PCI Slots
2 x PCI Slots

Now, even though it is an old system, will a current model graphics card like a VEGA or Nvidia 1070 or 1080 video card work in it? (I understand that I will not get the full benifit of the card in a system that old) But I would expect that if the card were installed in it, and I updated the video card drivers, that the computer and Windows 10 would have no issues using the card.

I want to know from people more familiar with this if it will infact work?

I am also looking at building a modern desktop with an i9 or threadripper in it, but I am waiting on doing that.
 
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Yeah you can run any GPU you like with that motherboard though as you stated you'll have some bottlenecking until you upgrade the rest of your system. I do exactly that sometimes myself. Get the high end GPU until I can afford the CPU a month or so later to make it really hum along full speed.
 
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As long as the PCIe slot is gen 3, it can support any GPU.
 
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Not sure if you are planning SLI again, but for gaming I wouldn't bother as it's a waste of money. More and more games cannot take advantage of SLI and both Nvidia and AMD are stepping down SLI/crossfire support and I expect them to probably stop SLI support completely in one of the next few GPU generations, well, just my guess anyway.
 
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Not sure if any cards exist that will let you run 6 monitors directly. You will need something like MST HUB Eyefinity 6 to do it and it will only work with a few selected rare cards.
Your best best would be to run to cards (not necessarily in SLI) to get 6 outputs, like 2 GTX 1060 with 3 outputs each.
 
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Yes, that is actually really disappointing. I was expecting allot from Eyefinity when it was announced and it has all but disappeared. I was hoping that Eyefinity would allow 6 mini displayport connectors on 17 inch laptops like Eurocom builds instead of 2 monitors through a mini display port splitter, 1 on an HDMI out and 1 on a VGA out, while still using the built in 17 inch screen built into the laptop.

Because consolidating all those ports on the laptop into 6 mini display port connectors would take roughly the same amount of physical space on the side of the laptop..
 
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