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Is there any micro atx mobo that can sli 2 cards far apart so you wouldn't need water cooling or have the cards to close?
 
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That msi board will have the cards squashed together. I do not know of any z97 matx boards that have 3 slot spacing for sli, i believe the gigabyte z87 g1 board does have that spacing so if you use a non-refresh chip you could do it or if you have another cpu you could update the bios to be compatible with the refresh chips.

EDIT: A couple of other guys suggested some boards that have 3 pcie x16 (physical) slots. I believe that it its the same with these boards (not 100% on this) that the top one is wired x16, the next one x8 and the one after that is only wired for x4. This means you have to use the two squished together for sli because sli is not supported on x4. I think they do that because the matx standard is only 4 expansion...
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Well, I'm looking at the 350d and I think I'd like to use that case. But ti's not ATX :/
 
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Try shopping around, Phanteks Enthoo cases are really good for their cost for example, with a mid tower case you will have no problems with size for a 2 way SLI. But i dont know if thats a feature you can get in micro ATX cases without getting pretty creative
 
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That msi board will have the cards squashed together. I do not know of any z97 matx boards that have 3 slot spacing for sli, i believe the gigabyte z87 g1 board does have that spacing so if you use a non-refresh chip you could do it or if you have another cpu you could update the bios to be compatible with the refresh chips.

EDIT: A couple of other guys suggested some boards that have 3 pcie x16 (physical) slots. I believe that it its the same with these boards (not 100% on this) that the top one is wired x16, the next one x8 and the one after that is only wired for x4. This means you have to use the two squished together for sli because sli is not supported on x4. I think they do that because the matx standard is only 4 expansion slots and only a few cases (350d included) have 5 expansion slots
 
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Have a look at the picture of two dual slot cards installed on the MSI board in the link I gave. There is plenty of room between the cards.
 
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Hadn't seen that one, didnt see your post until after i replied. Lots of the boards have the 3pcie x16 slots but do sli on the top two so they squash the cards together. If only the corsair air 240 had 5 expansion slots that would be perfect for a nice lan build.
 
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These are the expansion slots on the Z97M-plus:
1 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 mode, gray)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode, black)
2 x PCI

The second PCI-E x16 slot is running at only PCI-E 2.0 x4 speed.
This would hobble the second card if running two in Crossfire.
This board does not support SLI.

The MSI Z97M-GAMING that I suggested earlier has two PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots running at x8 speed.
This is perfect for SLI or Crossfire.

Asus make great motherboards.
These are the three that they make that suit what you want:
Gryphon Z97
Maximus VII Gene
Gryphon Z97 armor edition

All three support PCI-E 3.0 X8/X8 like the MSI board.
They have the same 2 slot spacing as the MSI board.

The Maximus VII Gene is the premium ROG product with every feature they could add.
The audio solution on this board is from Asus and is very competitive with the Creative features on the MSI board.

The Gryphon boards have a rubbish onboard audio chip. This isn't important though if you are using a sound card, HDMI audio from your graphics card or USB headphones. Other than that, the quality of these boards looks very good.

Different graphics cards vary in thickness.
Micro-ATX boards only have space for four slots, so with two cards you end up with two slot spacing.
You just need to choose cards that aren't the full width of two slots for the length of the card.

 
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Gryphon does not do sli in the bottom slot (black). It is wired for x4 only, it will squish they cards together. The gene looks as if it has the same problem so the msi board is the only option if you want 3 slots spacing so your cards can breath
 
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The Gryphon is not designed to use the bottom slot for SLI.
It is designed to use slots 1 and 3, which is exactly the same as the MSI board.
To use the bottom slot for a graphics card means it would hang over the edge of the motherboard.
None of these boards are designed this way.
The gigabyte z87 g1 you mentioned earlier is ATX, not micro-ATX.

The image on the MSI page shows a decent gap between the cards.
With the right graphics cards, this will be true on any of these boards.
If you want 3 slot spacing, you need to go up to ATX but there is nothing wrong with the spacing on these micro-ATX motherboards.
 
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http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4482#ov. You can sli in the bottom slot which is why some Matx cases like the 350d have 5 expansion slots not the standard 4. The image of the msi board with the two graphics cards is wrong, you can see the second pcie slot above the graphics card, there are only two on the board. There are no z97 boards with the spacing op wants for crossfire (1 slot between the cards). this is what i meant by 3 slot spacing, its really two slot spacing.
 
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Well, I guess any spacing would do. I just wouldn't want the gfx cards to be touching each other or there to not be enough airflow, because I wouldn't want to water-cool.
 
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As you say, the Gigabyte G1.Sniper M5 places the second SLI capable slot in the lowest position, so you can hang a dual slot card over the edge of the motherboard if you case supports 5 expansion slots. This would make getting a cable into the USB headers difficult. Of course, this is a Z87 board so it would require a BIOS update to support the Haswell refresh CPUs. Some boards may come with this new BIOS but it would be a risk.
This could be exactly what CaptainGunny is looking for and maybe a Haswell CPU is fine rather than Haswell refresh.

I don't know why you think the image on the MSI site is "wrong".
The board has the first and third slot from the CPU as PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots which can run in X8/X8 mode to support SLI.
The second and fourth slots are PCI-E x1 slots.
The two graphics cards are installed in the two x16 slots and you can see a little of the second slot (PCI-E x1) below the first cooler.
 
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Well, I haven't gotten a rig yet but I decided it would be better to get one card. So I cannot help you here. :/
 
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