trying to choose a motherboard that wont limit graphics

[SirYanthon]

heres what i picked out so far:

https://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-6800K-Processor-FC-LGA14A-BX80671I76800K/dp/B01FJLA8NI/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1480352556&sr=1-1&keywords=i7-6800k&refinements=p_n_feature_four_browse-bin%3A2289792011%2Cp_89%3AIntel%2Cp_n_condition-type%3A2224371011

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-GeForce-STRIX-Graphics-STRIX-GTX1080-A8G-GAMING/dp/B01K5F8MJK?SubscriptionId=AKIAJO7E5OLQ67NVPFZA&ascsubtag=561611589-16-536860833.1480352023&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01K5F8MJK&linkCode=xm2&tag=d_2b_a_o-20&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/PNY-Anarchy-2400MHz-PC4-19200-Desktop/dp/B012ASF1WQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1480361151&sr=8-4&keywords=16gb+DDR4+2400%2F2133+2x8

https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-10-Pro-Bit/dp/B00ZSHDJ4O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480364883&sr=8-1&keywords=windows+10+pro+64+bit+oem

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX300-525GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B01IAGSD68/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480365028&sr=8-1&keywords=500gb+ssd+2.5

im considering this motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16813157543

however, im also considering either a 1070sli instead of the 1080, or just adding anouther 1080 later. however, theres this from the motherboards spec list:

3 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slots (PCIE1 @ x16 mode; PCIE3 @ x16 mode; PCIE5 @ x8 mode)*
*If you install CPU with 28 lanes, PCIE1/PCIE3/PCIE4 will work at x16/x8/x4 and 3-Way SLI is not supported. To support 3-Way SLI, please install CPU with 40 lanes.

and my cpu only has 28 lanes. would the second card running on pcie8x instead of 16x negatively affect it?

[The_Denks]

Running in 8x mode wont affect performance

[SirYanthon]

Just now, UberGamerKing said:

Running in 8x mode wont affect performance

thats what i was hoping since ive never done sli before and just had no idea

[rn8686]

What will you use this PC for? Use PCPartPicker, its much better than this. Just get 1 1080, SLI can scale poorly. No, 8X is plenty of bandwidth for a GPU. 

[SirYanthon]

Just now, rn8686 said:

What will you use this PC for? Use PCPartPicker, its much better than this. Just get 1 1080, SLI can scale poorly. No, 8X is plenty of bandwidth for a GPU. 

i will use it for both high end gaming and high end video editing and music production. i was thinking is just do the single 1080, cause while sli1070 would give more cuda cores, and be benificial to adobe premiere, it wouldnt improve all games since like you said, it usualy doesnt scale well.

[Qwweb]

If you are that worried about core count you should be looking at quadros, or go for a 980ti sli as you would get more cores from the 980Ti

[SirYanthon]

3 minutes ago, Qwweb said:

If you are that worried about core count you should be looking at quadros, or go for a 980ti sli as you would get more cores from the 980Ti

lol hell no i cant afford a quadro  im not too worried about the cores, but it is a factor. id rather a 1080 than a 980ti sli for vr

[Qwweb]

1 minute ago, EdgieHippie said:

lol hell no i cant afford a quadro  im not too worried about the cores, but it is a factor. id rather a 1080 than a 980ti sli for vr

Even 1 980Ti has more cores (256 more) than a 1080 and costs about the same if you are buying new (a lot less used).

[Praesi]

Use Partpicker please.

[Qwweb]

His current build is  https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HZwPQV    

Core i7-6800K  $379.99 Newegg

ASRock X99 Extreme4 $159.99 Newegg

PNY Anarchy 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-2133 $89.99 Best Buy

Crucial MX300 525GB SSD $99.99 Amazon

Asus GeForce GTX 1080 8GB STRIX $678.99 SuperBiiz

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro $98.99 My Choice Software

Total-$1478.93

 

[SirYanthon]

12 minutes ago, Qwweb said:

Even 1 980Ti has more cores (256 more) than a 1080 and costs about the same if you are buying new (a lot less used).

after looking at some benchmarks now im considering the 980tisli

[SirYanthon]

17 minutes ago, EdgieHippie said:

after looking at some benchmarks now im considering the 980tisli

noo, sorry, with the added features that improve vr id still rather use a single 1080

[SirYanthon]

i still cant find any motherboards for this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/L96M4C that dont have a compatability issue of needing to update the bios, and idk if that would actually be an issue or not