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But my cpu will still throttle my lanes or doesn't it?

I only wanted to safe the ram cause it is not that old, a few months only but I also was thinking about X99 but it costs me about 400 bucks more

But the x99 has a much more beautiful boards than the x79 like the rampage extreme IV black edition but the rampage V looks better has more features and it matches more to my colour scheme of my built

A 4930K would cost me 499 Euro and the board 430 Euro, I would sell my old cpu and board and h110 from corsair as good as I can and safe my corsair dominator 2133 CL9 kit (Quad Channel /4*4GB)

So this would cost me 930euro

The 5930k costs 600 Euro and the Mainboard 440 plus the ran which costs me about 400 Euro

So that are 1440 Euro

So 1440-930=510 Euro difference so I'm not sure if I really should go for DDR4 Dominator ram and a X99 board :/

i say wait for a while longer till DDR4 is cheaper

 

going for X99 now will cost you a lot of money

 

in the mean time getting another Z97 board wont cost you too much and the MSI board can be used on another spare PC

 

and Z97 and 4690K are still great for 2 way SLi

 

and some boards run the PCI-E SSD from the chipset PCI-E lanes and the GPU are only linked to the CPU

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Till I can buy a new mobo and cpu it will take about three months I don't think that it will get a lot cheaper till that, I know that I could reuse my msi board but I was thinking about selling it because I don't need a second pc, I wouldn't know for what I've need such one,

The thing where the asus rampage got to my decision is that this board with the 5930k supports 40 lanes and another PCI slot where I could use the Ssd and it wouldn't use cpu lanes how you explained it to me, so it would be possible to run 16/8/8/8 with still running the Ssd between 4 cards (yes I know 4way sli is dumb, I'm not going for 4 WY but may I go for 3 way later I don't know so I want a bit room to upgrade later, and one more reason why I want an Asus Rampage board and dominator ram (which is also more expensive) is that I want to watercooled them and they look better, because I'm not only buying the best price power effective hardware, I go for my setup match

The 4690 has how much lanes?

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Till I can buy a new mobo and cpu it will take about three months I don't think that it will get a lot cheaper till that, I know that I could reuse my msi board but I was thinking about selling it because I don't need a second pc, I wouldn't know for what I've need such one,

The thing where the asus rampage got to my decision is that this board with the 5930k supports 40 lanes and another PCI slot where I could use the Ssd and it wouldn't use cpu lanes how you explained it to me, so it would be possible to run 16/8/8/8 with still running the Ssd between 4 cards (yes I know 4way sli is dumb, I'm not going for 4 WY but may I go for 3 way later I don't know so I want a bit room to upgrade later, and one more reason why I want an Asus Rampage board and dominator ram (which is also more expensive) is that I want to watercooled them and they look better, because I'm not only buying the best price power effective hardware, I go for my setup match

The 4690 has how much lanes?

The Rampage V will support 4 way at 16x/8x/8x/8x like you said and you still have one PCI-E 2.0 x4 to use for the SSD

 

but noted that

 

The PCIE_X4_1 (gray) slot shares bandwidth with the PCIE_X1_1 slot, USB3_E910 and SATAExpress_E1 connector. When the PCIE_X4_1 slot is occupied by an X1 or X2 device, the SATAEXPRESS_E1 will be disabled. When the PCIE_X4_1 slot is occupied by X4 device, the SATAEXPRESS_E1, USB3_E910 ports, and the PCIE_X1_1 slot will be disabled.

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The 4690 is a cpu which isn't even that powerful as my current one is so it would be a downgrade 0.0

the 4690 has 16 lanes for the GPU to use

 

when you run dual GPU

 

they both share x8/x8 which is equal to PCI-E 2.0 x16

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Yes but my 4770k has also 16 lanes,

So what do you mean with the pci slot x4_1?

the mainstream CPU only have 16 lanes

 

with the only exception being the 5820K has 28

 

and the 5930k and 5960x with 40 lanes

 

i was refering to the black PCI-E slot on the Rampage 5 Extreme

 

that is the x4 powered slot for SSDs

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But with the rampage V when I would use this grey slot I would be able to use 16/0/16 ob my GPu lanes even when I'm using it on a pci3 slot I would be able to use 16/8/16 (even on the rampage V which would be the x79)

the three way config for the GPU lanes is weird for the Rampage

 

you only can use X16 x8 and X8

 

on the Deluxe it will be X16 X16  x8

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So you think the rampage 5 extreme would be probably a better choice?

I have one more question about my graphics cards, I have the problem my cards are no going for full usage so they are sitting around at these stats while gaming

Power: 65%

Usage: 50-60%

Voltage: the first card stabilized at 1.206 and the other is hopping up and down all the time

And the overall fps where at 17-30 at crisis 3 maxed out setting on a resolution of 5760*1080

Any idea to solve this?

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So you think the rampage 5 extreme would be probably a better choice?

I have one more question about my graphics cards, I have the problem my cards are no going for full usage so they are sitting around at these stats while gaming

Power: 65%

Usage: 50-60%

Voltage: the first card stabilized at 1.206 and the other is hopping up and down all the time

And the overall fps where at 17-30 at crisis 3 maxed out setting on a resolution of 5760*1080

Any idea to solve this?

that is weird your 2nd gpu is not used

 

and crysis 3 is not a new game

 

the driver should have the profile for Crysis 3

 

do you have MSI afterburner?

 

set power target to 110%

 

also you could try flipping the GPU around

 

some voodoo magic may happen

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Yes I have msi afterburner and I set the power target to 110

So you think I should swap the Gpu?

yes flip the position

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Okay im at home tomorrow so I will try it out then

So back to the other topic, so which parts should I take otherwise?

So should I go for a

Asus rampage IV black edition (X79 - 2011)

Intel I7 4930k 12mb l3

Which would give me 40 lanes but no x1 slots

This would cost 930 euro

Or for an

Asus Rampage V Extreme (X99 - 2011-3)

Intel i7 5820k 15mb l3

Dominator ram quad channel 16gb 2666mhz cl16

Which would cost 430+340+320 = 1090 Euro

And would have 28 lanes

Or for an

Asus Rampage V Extreme (X99 - 2011-3)

Intel i7 5930k 15mb l3

Dominator ram quad channel 16gb 2666mhz cl16

Ehich would cost 430+500+360=1260 Euro for

40 lanes

So which one would be the best?

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Okay im at home tomorrow so I will try it out then

So back to the other topic, so which parts should I take otherwise?

So should I go for a

Asus rampage IV black edition (X79 - 2011)

Intel I7 4930k 12mb l3

Which would give me 40 lanes but no x1 slots

This would cost 930 euro

Or for an

Asus Rampage V Extreme (X99 - 2011-3)

Intel i7 5820k 15mb l3

Dominator ram quad channel 16gb 2666mhz cl16

Which would cost 430+340+320 = 1090 Euro

And would have 28 lanes

Or for an

Asus Rampage V Extreme (X99 - 2011-3)

Intel i7 5930k 15mb l3

Dominator ram quad channel 16gb 2666mhz cl16

Ehich would cost 430+500+360=1260 Euro for

40 lanes

So which one would be the best?

2nd choice or 3rd choice

 

note that the 5820k has 28 lanes

 

so in 3 way SLi

 

they all run at x8x8x8

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With the third choice I could run my 2 cards in (16/0/x1 slot here/16/0) and even a space for the cards for better airflow and the asus Ssd can be placed in the x1 slot between of the two cards without loosing lanes and when I run 3way sli I could run it (16/0/Ssd on the x1 slot here/16/8) so for even future thinking it would be more worth to spend 170 extra money for the setup?

What do you think? It's hard to decide that alone because it's a lot money, and I think I it's better to ask other people what they think and decide it then, am I right?

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With the third choice I could run my 2 cards in (16/0/x1 slot here/16/0) and even a space for the cards for better airflow and the asus Ssd can be placed in the x1 slot between of the two cards without loosing lanes and when I run 3way sli I could run it (16/0/Ssd on the x1 slot here/16/8) so for even future thinking it would be more worth to spend 170 extra money for the setup?

What do you think? It's hard to decide that alone because it's a lot money, and I think I it's better to ask other people what they think and decide it then, am I right?

yea you can ask in the main CPU,Mobo and RAM section for other views

 

tell them you want to go 3 way SLi

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Where is the main cpu mobo ram section?

here

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/5-cpus-motherboards-and-memory/

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