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Just now, DEcobra11 said:

Depends on your mb

My motherboard supports it.

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the CPU only has 16 PCI-e lanes so both the cards would run at PCI-e 8x mode, but this doesn't matter as the additional speed wont affect performance. 

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1 minute ago, agent114 said:

the CPU only has 16 PCI-e lanes so both the cards would run at PCI-e 8x mode, but this doesn't matter as the additional speed wont affect performance. 

I just wanna run ultra settings 4k. So it's good I'm guessing?

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1 minute ago, Yoo Song Won said:

I just wanna run ultra settings 4k. So it's good I'm guessing?

Depending on the game the i5 might struggle on cpu intensive games...

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The higher the resolution, the less cpu u need. Ur i5 will be plenty. Awesomesauce did a video about that, but i cant find it imo.

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19 minutes ago, Yoo Song Won said:

I just wanna run ultra settings 4k. So it's good I'm guessing?

Go for the Xeon 1231v3 and then run SLI. 

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