Asus Ramapge V Extreme and M.2 to Mini SAS adaptor

[caos]

Hi Everyone,

 

I started building my system finally but ran into an interesting snag. firstly i have a Intel 750 1tb SSD the 2.5'' version so the connection is via a mini sas cable. i purchased the M.2 to mini sas adaptor to use on the motherboard but after installing the adaptor i found out the the plastic connection clip on the adaptor contacts the the Asus GTX 980 Ti that prevents the graphics card from sitting in the PCI slot properly.. i tired calling/ mailing asus so for no response!!!!! not happy... i find it hard to believe that asus could make such an error like this all my hardware is ASUS, even the m.2 to mini sas adaptor thus was at least hoping that the hardware would all be compatible for installation????

 

 

 

anyway chaining the hard drive is not an option.. so i am stuck with an expensive issue if it can not be resolved

 

are there any m.2 extenders that will work with the Asus mini sas adaptor and the intel 750 SSD???

 

 

 

any help would be highly appreciated

 

[mikat]

afaik those kinds of adapters are the only ones, but you could try installing your gpu in another slot?

[Glenwing]

Can you not just install the graphics card in a lower slot?

[Minsekt]

17 minutes ago, Glenwing said:

Can you not just install the graphics card in a lower slot?

no problem if hes using a single card. not possible if hes using sli and a 28lane cpu tho. only a 5860x can saturate the lanes in other configurations. 

 

btt, the adaptor does fit btw. theres no problem, itll stick inside of the fitting you took a picture from.

heres a picture 

 

 

i dont see whats your problem.

 

//edit oh well ive just took a look at my R5E, now isee the problem. it should allign with the sata connectors but its almost 1cm off, thats some stupid design flaw right there.

[Glenwing]

2 minutes ago, Minsekt said:

no problem if hes using a single card. not possible if hes using sli and a 28lane cpu tho. only a 5860x can saturate the lanes in other configurations. 

 

btt, the adaptor does fit btw. theres no problem, itll stick inside of the fitting you took a picture from.

heres a picture 

 

 

i dont see whats your problem.

The problem is the GPU is not all the way in the PCI Express slot in his picture. He's can't push the card all the way into the slot because the SAS connector is too tall.

 

If he's running a 28-lane CPU with SLI, he'd be stuck with x8 anyway, it wouldn't matter if he used the top slot or a different one.

[Minsekt]

12 minutes ago, Glenwing said:

The problem is the GPU is not all the way in the PCI Express slot in his picture. He's can't push the card all the way into the slot because the SAS connector is too tall.

 

If he's running a 28-lane CPU with SLI, he'd be stuck with x8 anyway, it wouldn't matter if he used the top slot or a different one.

nope, the other lanes are forced at x4 if the m2 is in usage on a 28lane cpu.(you have to use the #1 and #4 slot in this scenario) but i saw the problem now, ive edited my post.

[Glenwing]

20 minutes ago, Minsekt said:

nope, the other lanes are forced at x4 if the m2 is in usage on a 28lane cpu.(you have to use the #1 and #4 slot in this scenario) but i saw the problem now, ive edited my post.

That's not true at all. It depends entirely on how the motherboard maker has configured the lanes, on the RVE the M.2 slot shares lanes with the bottom PCIe slot, on a 28-lane CPU that slot is not usable at all, those lanes are always allocated to the M.2 slot. The other three red slots can be run in x8/x8/x8 alongside the M.2 SSD. He can leave the top slot blank and still run the other two in x8/x8.

[caos]

Just a add-on note... im using the 5960X CPU ... so i would want to use both x16 slots ...  

im not to technically informed Gelnwing but wouldn't using both x16 give better performance? especially with a 5960X CPU

i was thinking of getting an m.2 extender or  Hyper M.2x4mini by Asus to put in the lower slot?

[caos]

How about getting the Asus Hyper M.2x4mini and attaching the M.2 to Minis SAS adaptor to it and placing them to the last PCI slot ( the one after the second GPU) 

any compatibility or  performance issue with this setup??

[Glenwing]

8 hours ago, caos said:

Just a add-on note... im using the 5960X CPU ... so i would want to use both x16 slots ...  

im not to technically informed Gelnwing but wouldn't using both x16 give better performance? especially with a 5960X CPU

i was thinking of getting an m.2 extender or  Hyper M.2x4mini by Asus to put in the lower slot?

PCI Express bandwidth is really not that important, it's been tested many times that PCIe 3.0 ×8 is more than enough to handle a graphics card without performance loss.