Mobo Suggestions Needed

[Zack Brown]

I'm getting dual GTX 980 Tis.

And I'm getting 1 x Samsung 950 Pro SSD and 1 x Intel 750 Series SSD.

 

The two SSDs are NVMes and require x4 PCIe slots.

 

Will the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME do the job?

 

If not, what black/red mobos will?

[A Guy Eating Cereal]

4 minutes ago, Zack Brown said:

I'm getting dual GTX 980 Tis.

And I'm getting 1 x Samsung 950 Pro SSD and 1 x Intel 750 Series SSD.

 

The two SSDs are NVMes and require x4 PCIe slots.

 

Will the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME do the job?

 

If not, what black/red mobos will?

What cpu??

[Zack Brown]

4 minutes ago, A Guy Eating Cereal said:

What cpu??

Intel Core i7-6700K

[Zack Brown]

12 minutes ago, josap said:

It will probably work but realise that means you are using two different types of pcie 16x port for the mvme ssds.

What do you mean by two different types of pcie 16x ports?

[Dash Lambda]

16 minutes ago, Zack Brown said:

What do you mean by two different types of pcie 16x ports?

The 6700K only provides 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes, which is only enough to accommodate your GPUs. The rest is handled by the chipset, which provides 20 PCIe lanes that it runs through what I think is the equivalent of a PCIe 3.0 4x connection with the CPU...

 

My question is, why are you getting both a 950 pro and a 750?

[Zack Brown]

50 minutes ago, Dash Lambda said:

The 6700K only provides 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes, which is only enough to accommodate your GPUs. The rest is handled by the chipset, which provides 20 PCIe lanes that it runs through what I think is the equivalent of a PCIe 3.0 4x connection with the CPU...

 

My question is, why are you getting both a 950 pro and a 750?

One is a boot drive and one for programs that I use on daily bases.

[Dash Lambda]

1 hour ago, Zack Brown said:

One is a boot drive and one for programs that I use on daily bases.

Fair enough.

 

Either way, I would recommend going with X99 if you're making such heavy use of PCIe. A 5820K provides enough direct lanes for all of those components, which would end up being faster overall.

[Zack Brown]

12 hours ago, Dash Lambda said:

Fair enough.

 

Either way, I would recommend going with X99 if you're making such heavy use of PCIe. A 5820K provides enough direct lanes for all of those components, which would end up being faster overall.

The X99 doesn't fit my needs as I need a black/red mobo.

 

Wouldn't the MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME do the job?

[Dash Lambda]

6 minutes ago, Zack Brown said:

The X99 doesn't fit my needs as I need a black/red mobo.

 

Wouldn't the MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME do the job?

Yes, it would work, but X99 is designed to handle that many PCIe lanes... Z170 moreso just happens to.

 

You do know of the Rampage V Extreme, right?

[arielfall]

So he could get 8x for one card and 4x for the other card and 4x for each drive? Ehh it could work fine. Probably be safer to just get a X99. Especially if you are already spending that much on GPUs.

[Zack Brown]

14 hours ago, Dash Lambda said:

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I quoted you by mistake lol

1 hour ago, arielfall said:

So he could get 8x for one card and 4x for the other card and 4x for each drive? Ehh it could work fine. Probably be safer to just get a X99. Especially if you are already spending that much on GPUs.

Yeah but the color of the X99 would be a big problem because the color scheme of my PC + Setup is black and red.

[Zack Brown]

2 hours ago, Dash Lambda said:

Yes, it would work, but X99 is designed to handle that many PCIe lanes... Z170 moreso just happens to.

 

You do know of the Rampage V Extreme, right?

Yeah but it's LGA socket is 2011 while my Intel i7 6700K is LGA 1151

[Dash Lambda]

7 hours ago, Zack Brown said:

Yeah but it's LGA socket is 2011 while my Intel i7 6700K is LGA 1151

Oh, so you already have the CPU. Then you can't use X99 anyway...

Well, like I said, it will work, just not as well as on X99.

 

9 hours ago, arielfall said:

So he could get 8x for one card and 4x for the other card and 4x for each drive? Ehh it could work fine. Probably be safer to just get a X99. Especially if you are already spending that much on GPUs.

He'll get 8x for each GPU and 4x from the chipset for each drive. It wouldn't work if he only had 4x for one of the cards.

[Zack Brown]

@Dash Lambda Ugh, I'm new to all this PCIe stuff.

 

Each GTX 980 Ti uses a x16 PCIe slot so how can I use 8x for each GPU?

[Dash Lambda]

5 minutes ago, Zack Brown said:

@Dash Lambda Ugh, I'm new to all this PCIe stuff.

 

Each GTX 980 Ti uses a x16 PCIe slot so how can I use 8x for each GPU?

The physical slot is 16x, but the CPU controls how much bandwidth is actually provides depending on what devices it sees.

 

So, when a GPU in a 16x slot is using 8x, it's quite literally only using half the slot. The other half is deactivated to provide bandwidth for whatever's taking up the other lanes.

[VagabondWraith]

7 minutes ago, Zack Brown said:

@Dash Lambda Ugh, I'm new to all this PCIe stuff.

 

Each GTX 980 Ti uses a x16 PCIe slot so how can I use 8x for each GPU?

Each GPU in SLI will switch to x8/x8. Crossfire gets x8/x8/x4.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Please for the love of God.  Don't do that system with Z170. You are straight up losing  performance compared to x99 in sli. 

 

Even if you have a 6700k already,  I'd highly recommend selling it and getting a 5820k and an x99 mobo.

 

As for your color scheme,  basically all msi  boards will match well,  and the x99 rampage 5 extreme has a red and black color. 

[Zack Brown]

@Curufinwe_wins

Note: No I didn't buy the CPU yet & I decided to go with a 5930K.

 

Okay, so let me get this straight.

 

If I go with a 5930K + Rampage V Extreme, I would be able to run 2 GTX 980 Tis in SLI + have 2 NVMe SSDs (Intel 750 + Samsung 950 Pro)

 

If yes, would I need to configure some things in the BIOS so that everything runs fine?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Curufinwe_wins]

1 minute ago, Zack Brown said:

@Curufinwe_wins

Note: No I didn't buy the CPU yet & I decided to go with a 5930K.

 

Okay, so let me get this straight.

 

If I go with a 5930K + Rampage V Extreme, I would be able to run 2 GTX 980 Tis in SLI + have 2 NVMe SSDs (Intel 750 + Samsung 950 Pro)

 

If yes, would I need to configure some things in the BIOS so that everything runs fine?

 

Thanks in advance.

It will work fine out of the box, but there is NO REASON AT ALL to buy the 5930k. It doesn't overclock better and you don't need the lanes. Ever.

 

 

[Zack Brown]

11 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

It will work fine out of the box, but there is NO REASON AT ALL to buy the 5930k. It doesn't overclock better and you don't need the lanes. Ever.

 

 

Alright I guess I'll be better off with a 5820K.

 

 Thanks a lot I appreciate it!