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A quick question to increase knowledge.

The ASROck H97M Pro4 has 1 PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 PCIe 2.0 x16 and 2 PCI.

The website says the mobo is able to take up to Quad SLI/Crossfire.

If i ever wanted to do SLI or Crossfire , and i put a GPU on both of the X16 , would i experience something like "the second x16 dropping to x8" or both of them dropping to x8?

and example if i wanted to take an AMD R9 290X on the first x16 ( its the pcie 3.0 ) slot , can i put an nVidia's GPU on the second x16 slot as a dedicated physX card?

This board does not support SLI, it does support crossfire.

Having a card in x8 will not bottleneck it at all with current generation's GPUs.

 

AMD GPU along with a Nvidia GPU will just work. Altough a dedicated PhysX card is not worth it ( in my opinion ).

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A quick question to increase knowledge.

The ASROck H97M Pro4 has 1 PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 PCIe 2.0 x16 and 2 PCI.
The website says the mobo is able to take up to Quad SLI/Crossfire.

If i ever wanted to do SLI or Crossfire , and i put a GPU on both of the X16 , would i experience something like "the second x16 dropping to x8" or both of them dropping to x8?

and example if i wanted to take an AMD R9 290X on the first x16 ( its the pcie 3.0 ) slot , can i put an nVidia's GPU on the second x16 slot as a dedicated physX card?

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Physx cards make no sense. They can even slow down the main card.

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A quick question to increase knowledge.

The ASROck H97M Pro4 has 1 PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 PCIe 2.0 x16 and 2 PCI.

The website says the mobo is able to take up to Quad SLI/Crossfire.

If i ever wanted to do SLI or Crossfire , and i put a GPU on both of the X16 , would i experience something like "the second x16 dropping to x8" or both of them dropping to x8?

and example if i wanted to take an AMD R9 290X on the first x16 ( its the pcie 3.0 ) slot , can i put an nVidia's GPU on the second x16 slot as a dedicated physX card?

This board does not support SLI, it does support crossfire.

Having a card in x8 will not bottleneck it at all with current generation's GPUs.

 

AMD GPU along with a Nvidia GPU will just work. Altough a dedicated PhysX card is not worth it ( in my opinion ).

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This board does not support SLI, it does support crossfire.

Having a card in x8 will not bottleneck it at all with current generation's GPUs.

 

AMD GPU along with a Nvidia GPU will just work. Altough a dedicated PhysX card is not worth it ( in my opinion ).

oh ya , i mislook at the description of the sli.. thanks for pointing it out. :)

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Physx cards make no sense. They can even slow down the main card.

hmm , why is that?

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hmm , why is that?

Because the amount of games taking advantage of Physx is minimal and PhysX itself is terrible.

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hmm , why is that?

Because if you use slow card as psysx card the main card will literally have to wait for the slow one. And if you use a good card for psysx it's just retarded because you spend a ton of money for a tiny feature.

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Because the amount of games taking advantage of Physx is minimal and PhysX itself is terrible.

 

 

Because if you use slow card as psysx card the main card will literally have to wait for the slow one. And if you use a good card for psysx it's just retarded because you spend a ton of money for a tiny feature.

 

 

ahh... good point there.. thanks guys.. :) great community.

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ahh... good point there.. thanks guys.. :) great community.

If you want Psysx just get a 970. Great card for the money.

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If you want Psysx just get a 970. Great card for the money.

im hanging here.. haha , with budget at 700usd.. ( monitor included )

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im hanging here.. haha , with budget at 700usd.. ( monitor included )

You need a monitor, a gpu and a mobo?

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more like everything from ram , to hdd.... to the casing..

but here it is... http://pcpartpicker.com/p/phVZHx

Yeah, so your budget is 700$ with monitor or without.

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12700, B660M Mortar DDR4, 32GB 3200C16 Viper Steel, 2TB SN570, EVGA Supernova G6 850W, be quiet! 500FX, EVGA 3070Ti FTW3 Ultra.

 

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Yeah, so your budget is 700$ with monitor or without.

should be with.. but my setup went overboard.. /facepalm

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should be with.. but my setup went overboard.. /facepalm

 
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($179.98 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($49.99 @ Micro Center) 
Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($58.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  ($154.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ NCIX US) 
Monitor: Acer H236HLbid 60Hz 23.0" Monitor  ($139.99 @ Best Buy) 
Total: $727.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-20 08:02 EST-0500
 
 
slightly more.

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12700, B660M Mortar DDR4, 32GB 3200C16 Viper Steel, 2TB SN570, EVGA Supernova G6 850W, be quiet! 500FX, EVGA 3070Ti FTW3 Ultra.

 

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CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($179.98 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($49.99 @ Micro Center) 
Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($58.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  ($154.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ NCIX US) 
Monitor: Acer H236HLbid 60Hz 23.0" Monitor  ($139.99 @ Best Buy) 
Total: $727.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-20 08:02 EST-0500
 
 
slightly more.

 

Dude that is perfect! Thank you again!

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