Is my B450 Aorus Elite capable of SLI?

ecselent · March 10, 2020

Hello,

As the title says, I want to know if I can run two GTX 1070 on my motherboard.

I saw that the motherboard has the following slots:

1x PCI-E 3.0 x16 @ x16
1x PCI-E 2.0 x16 @ x4

I did some research on internet and I saw that X4 slot is slower by 3-4 FPS in most of the games.

So I was wonder If I can make a SLI on this motherboard and if I can get a decent improvement.

The GTX 1070 is really cheap in my country now so that's why I was thinking about getting another one rather than upgrading the current GPU.

Thank you in advance!

minibois · March 10, 2020

1 minute ago, ecselent said:

Hello,

As the title says, I want to know if I can run two GTX 1070 on my motherboard.

I saw that the motherboard has the following slots:

1x PCI-E 3.0 x16 @ x16

1x PCI-E 2.0 x16 @ x4

I did some research on internet and I saw that X4 slot is slower by 3-4 FPS in most of the games.

So I was wonder If I can make a SLI on this motherboard and if I can get a decent improvement.

The GTX 1070 is really cheap in my country now so that's why I was thinking about getting another one rather than upgrading the current GPU.

Thank you in advance!

PCI lanes don't even matter at first, just look at the official documentation to see if the board is certified for SLI (which is a requirement for running SLI):

As you can see, there is Crossfire 2-way certification, but no SLI certification. SLI will not run on this motherboard.

Kilrah · March 10, 2020

If SLI support isn't mentioned in the specs (and it's not) then it's not supported. The BIOS needs specific functionality and an embedded certificate from NVIDIA for SLI to work.