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I'm looking at getting an ASUS Essence STX II and it looks like it uses PCI Express x1 but my concern is it significantly lowering performance of my SLI 1080s as they're using the 16 lanes provided by the 6700k in 8/0/8/0 My question is can I install this without dropping my gpu sli performance?

Hey guys I'm currently interested about purchasing a sound card for my current setup but unsure if there's a way to accomodate it without sacrificing performance. My specs are as follows.. MSI XPower Titanium Z170 Motherboard i7 6700k SLI 1080 ASUS Strix OC Edition I'm using a pair of...

Hey guys I can't for the life of me figure out which slot spacing EVGA HB Bridge I need to SLI my 1080s The motherboard I'm using is the MSI XPOWER Titanium Z170A If you view the motherboards manual the cards would be on PCIE slots 1 and 5 and run at x8 x8 The cards I'm using are the ASUS...

Thanks, I am definitely going with 2 slot spacing and an EVGA HB bridge. May I ask the reasoning behind your choice of card?

Hello, I'm having issues deciding which two 1080 cards I want to SLI due to not having much knowledge on the topic. My two choices are EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 or ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 8GB ROG STRIX OC Edition I'm interested in the RGB features aesthetically.. I really...

Yes I was be purchasing 2 of the same cards, thank you for your help.

So I have the right idea? Put the cards in slot 1 and 3 with a 1 slot spacing HB Bridge and I won't suffer any performance issues? I really have zero knowledge on the subject and am completely confused by this..

Hey guys, i'm planning on purchasing an i7 6700k and a MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION ATX LGA1151 Motherboard which as 4x PCIe x16 slots I plan to run GTX 1080's in SLI To my understanding it would be optimal to run the cards in the 1st and 3rd lane with a NVIDIA HB Bridge (1 slot...

We've ordered a new mobo and replacement cpu with priority 1 night shipping.. hopefully this will resolve the issue considering the RAM is not the problem, I am still curious why we ran into this problem.

Ran into some issues while testing for post on my brothers new gaming pc, hopefully somebody can figure out what the main issue is so we can avoid multiple hardware returns and shipping costs. Full Build for Reference - http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xQMsGX Here are the hardware components we were...

Ran into some issues while testing for post on my brothers new gaming pc, hopefully somebody can figure out what the main issue is so we can avoid multiple hardware returns and shipping costs. Full Build for Reference - http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xQMsGX Here are the hardware components we were...