Looking for Motherboard with pcie 16 x 16 x 16 and not 16 X 16 X 8

tsmith154 · Feb 19, 2018

I have a MSI x99s sli plus board. It has quantity of pci E 16 X 16 X 8 slots. For fun I am looking for a board that has the room to fit (3) MSI Radeon R9 290X water block cards. I would like to run them all in pci e 16 X 16 X 16. Does anyone know of a board. I have a cpu i7 5930K cpu. But it only has 40 lanes. I believe the 16 x 16 x 8 would run the same as the 16 x 16 x 16 with this cpu though. What do you guys think. If I did find a chip that supported enough lanes, would that improve the performance? This is just for gaming and the fun of learning.

banker · Feb 19, 2018

I believe I found one https://pcpartpicker.com/product/JNnG3C/asus-motherboard-x99a, through quick googling I came across this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rctaLgK5stA It looks like it's a 1-4 fps difference so pointless, though graphics cards have to run at least on a 8x lane slot

Gam3r01 · Feb 19, 2018

You wont see any performance increase using x16 x16 x16 vs x16 x16 x8, not only is it waste of money to change motherboards, its pointless as well.
It has no impact on gaming, and you dont need to waste money to learn things like that.

tsmith154 · Feb 19, 2018

banker :

I'm looking up the details now. Having some difficulties finding good specs so far. I'm sure I will find it. I need to confirm three cards will fit and all three slots will run at 16 all at the same time. All the boards I have found run 16 x 16 x 8 if three cards are installed at the same time.

Thanks for posting this.

banker · Feb 19, 2018

According to their website 3way would also be 16/16/8 sorry

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99A/

tsmith154 · Feb 19, 2018

Gam3r01 :

Thanks! I greatly appreciate this information. I did just learn a lot.

I will stay with what I have.

tsmith154 · Feb 19, 2018

banker :

No problem. You gave it a shot and that is perfect. Good stuff.

tsmith154 · Feb 19, 2018

I want to thank everyone for helping me with this information.

Search

Looking for Motherboard with pcie 16 x 16 x 16 and not 16 X 16 X 8

tsmith154

Distinguished

Gam3r01

banker

Respectable

Gam3r01

Titan

tsmith154

Distinguished

banker

Respectable

tsmith154

Distinguished

tsmith154

Distinguished

tsmith154

Distinguished

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page