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Ya that board will do sli but the slots are pretty close.
Where something like this the slots are 3 apart for breathing room,
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131851
I decided to do a compared PNG for this. I see what your saying:
http://oi41.tinypic.com/a6qvq.jpg
Biostar is two Slot space and ASUS is 3
See the lines i did though..ASUS has a total of 4 PciE x16s , one more then Biostar.
Im wondering since the Biostar says they are all SLI slots i think; Im going to read the manual: Im already stuck with this board because i Bought it two days ago but I wish I would have done more research.. Maybe that BIOstar PCIex 16 RED with the red line i traced to the PCIe_0 First PCi near south bridge & North bridge might work together it just says on the manufacture they are all pciE x16; doesnt say anything about SLI x00. Number speeds clocking down when you have SLI mode enabled on two cards. I know there is some boards that clock down the x16- like x8 or something when you have SLI enabled for two GPU cards.
Its the chipset too that i was worried about.. That ASUS has the same north and south bridge though so thats good.
Does that ASUS M5A99FX PRO have better SLI handling compared to the biostar?
Lower bottle necking that is ?
I also found these Video cards.. They are single slot profile; pretty decent i guess.
they are SLI and I can get a couple of them perhaps:
its got a good pretty decent CoreCLock with a 1800Mhz Mem frequency on it
ASUS ENGTX550 Ti/DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi...
But yeah.. that Biostar I ordered. it does do 6+2 Phase.. right.. ? Do you know
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Its a great motherboard. But like I said you'll get better performance on a more "midrange" motherboard chipset and forwarding the saving to a better CPU like the FX 6300. If your goal is for SLI you're more likely to encounter bottlenecking on the FX 4xxx series.
But yes its a very good motherboard. Not sure its the best choice for you though.
I posted some links up on the top referring to some GPU cards I might be getting: I dont think I would have much of a bottle neck issue as I am not doing extreme OCing just some basic OCing. I just wanted a decent board mainly; so i went with this one; I was also kinda in a rush; I guess I could use this configuration for a year then sell it as like new condition on ebay or something
or maybe I can sell it to one of the local clients i work with here.
I am no professional expert PC guy but I Do know a lot about PCS and all the basics.
The games I have well.. ok i have another Tower.. its a server set up though but its pretty good. It doesnt have Server parts but it has been set up as a server and with instruction sets in the OS.
its a IBM tower; and it has a intel 478 P4 um... hmm let me think.. 1mb L2 cache i think it was.. had about 3.2Gmhz CPU speed, 800mhz FSB with 4 Gs of Ram, Sata Drive.
with HIS ICeQ ATI Radeon Premium Graphics HD 4670 AGP interface qGB DDR3 Ram HDMI 1080PHD Full.
320 stream processing units.. 128bit DDr3 Interface for memory. 24x filter anti aliasing HP anisotropic filters.. Dyno Geo acceleration.
Core Clock : 750 MHz
Interface Spd: x8 AGP
Memory Clock: 1600 MHz
And it runs Railworks 3 software Trains 2013 and it runs a bit smoothly on it so just a little boost in preformance with another new build would help; that's only one of the most powerful game in graphics hogging I have let alone Second Life or Trainz 2013 from Australia.
Oh and Tribes : Ascend from Hi-Rez Studios My Super number one Graphics hogger: infact I cant even play it because my current build doesn't have the requirements LOL.
Here is my current gaming rig, (not IBM server):
- AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 San Diego Socket 939
- Family/Model/Stepping F.7.1
- Extended Family/Model F.27
- Core Stepping SH8-E4
- Core Speed 2813.7 MHz
- Multiplier x Bus speed 14.0 x 201.0 MHz
- HT Link speed 1004.9 MHz
- Stock frequency 5000 MHz
- Instruction sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
- L1 Data cache (per processor) 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
- L2 cache (per processor) 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
- Northbridge NVIDIA GeForce 6100 rev. A2
- Southbridge NVIDIA nForce 410/430 MCP rev. A2
- Graphic Interface PCI-Express x16
- 4 Gigs RAM pc3200
GeForce 7900 GTX
Core clock: 650 MHz
Memory data rate: 1600 MHz
Memory interface: 256-bit
Memory: 512 MB
Memory type: GDDR3