7970 Crossfire with Bridge with intel z170

[im_a_poato]

Having 0 clue how crossfire or sli work, i was wondering if 7970 crossfire (with a bridge...?)would be possible with the newest intel 6700k and z170.

 

TLDR  version to skip the story- friend works at a retailer, he is probably either going to buy a processor (intel edge retail program) for another friends upcoming build for fallout 4( don't really know whether it will be the 4790k or 6700k yet since the winter sale isnt up yet) and another friend has 2 7970s that I'm gonna buy from him. I want to know whether or not the 7970s can be configured in crossfire on the z170 platform or will we be better off getting a 4790k.

 

 

 

Also hi, I'm new here and am pretty potato as it comes to these things, so i hope i don't get nuked "for asking a stupid question".

[comicsansms]

Yes you sure can.

AFAIK any board with dual PCIe 16x slots should work for Xfire, since there is no licencing fee for Xfire.

[JebKerman]

Having 0 clue how crossfire or sli work, i was wondering if 7970 crossfire (with a bridge...?)would be possible with the newest intel 6700k and z170.

 

TLDR  version to skip the story- friend works at a retailer, he is probably either going to buy a processor (intel edge retail program) for another friends upcoming build for fallout 4( don't really know whether it will be the 4790k or 6700k yet since the winter sale isnt up yet) and another friend has 2 7970s that I'm gonna buy from him. I want to know whether or not the 7970s can be configured in crossfire on the z170 platform or will we be better off getting a 4790k.

 

 

 

Also hi, I'm new here and am pretty potato as it comes to these things, so i hope i don't get nuked "for asking a stupid question".

they will work, provided the PCI express slots are the right length apart for the bridge, which vary's from board to board, not chipset to chipset.(not sure if it's necessary for those cards in particular as modern AMD cards don't use a bridge anymore)

[im_a_poato]

they will work, provided the PCI express slots are the right length apart for the bridge, which vary's from board to board, not chipset to chipset.(not sure if it's necessary for those cards in particular as modern AMD cards don't use a bridge anymore)

ok, so basically I just have to figure out the bridge that my friend has, and find a motherboard with the same layout as his motherboard for the first 2 GPU x16 slots?  

 

seems easy enough