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panacuba   09-20-2008 at 02:36:21 AM

Okey i wante to ask if this mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813130159 can fit 2 9800GX2, i want to get a quad sli and im lookin for a good cheap mobo that can handle that cuz the asus version "can"not" cuz of the sata ports positions

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dagger   09-20-2008 at 02:47:48 AM
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panacuba wrote :

Okey i wante to ask if this mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813130159 can fit 2 9800GX2, i want to get a quad sli and im lookin for a good cheap mobo that can handle that cuz the asus version "can"not" cuz of the sata ports positions



The sata ports at the back seems like it might possibly hit the end of the cards. The 9800gx2's length looks right around that area. Aside from that, the 2nd and 3rd pcie slots run in 8x. Pcie1.1x8 is likely to bottleneck quad sli. So you should search for better options anyway.

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panacuba   09-20-2008 at 02:54:58 AM
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dagger teh MSI mobo says 3 2.0 PCI.e not 1.0 all of them are 2.0, the third and second are x8 but the configuriation should be first and second not the third,
correct me if wrong, the GX2 need 2 free spaces to be fine in quad sli?

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dagger   09-20-2008 at 03:04:53 AM
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panacuba wrote :

dagger teh MSI mobo says 3 2.0 PCI.e not 1.0 all of them are 2.0, the third and second are x8 but the configuriation should be first and second not the third,
correct me if wrong, the GX2 need 2 free spaces to be fine in quad sli?



Ah, you're right. It's pcie2.0, not 1.1. Although the x16 slot is limited by the x8 one, basically the same as dual x8. That part is still valid.

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panacuba   09-20-2008 at 04:20:41 AM
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yeah but right now i cannot afford a SLI mobo who have 2 PCIe 2.0 of 16 lanes each one, they are still to expensive

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megamanx00   09-20-2008 at 04:31:08 AM
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I think that board will be fine. Your sli configuration will be slightly limited by that second 8x PCI-E slot, since it's not a full 16x slot, but you should be fine.

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dagger   09-20-2008 at 04:59:26 AM
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megamanx00 wrote :

I think that board will be fine. Your sli configuration will be slightly limited by that second 8x PCI-E slot, since it's not a full 16x slot, but you should be fine.



I'm not so sure about that. The 4850s in cf bottlenecks pcie2.0x8 pretty severely.
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/ [...] index.html
The quad 9800gx2 is far more powerful. It's only a guess, since I haven't seen any benchmarks on quad sli, but results probably won't be good.

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