can a 1060 be used on a Mate Z97 mother board?

[brandon.soccer]

I want to buy a new graphics card and wanted to know if my mother board is compatible with a gtx 1060 3GB. or even 2 970 4G (SLI)

my mother board https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z97-PC-Mate#down-driver

gtx 970
https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GTX-970-GAMING-4G.html

gtx 1060
https://www.amazon.ca/ASUS-GeForce-Dual-Fan-Graphics-DUAL-GTX1060-O3G/dp/B01KMVHB6M

 

[vMax]

Bottom line the GTX 1060 will work just fine on the Z97 motherboard from PC Mate as to SLI, No, sadly as it is pci express 3.0 x16 for your main GPU and pci express 2.0 x4 only AMD crossfire. SLI requires two slots x8 minimum..