sli 780 ti's clearance

[Endeavour05]

Hi there, I just had a question concerning the clearance of the sli 780 ti's on the sabertooth z87 motherboard ( I'll be using the "stock" evga rear exhaust cards) with two of those cards installed will i have room to use the 3 smaller pci-express ports on the board? I need to install a AVerMedia capture card (c985), a xonar essence stx sound card, and a asus pce-ac68 wireless network adapter, if clearance will be an issue on this board is there a motherboard out there that can accommodate my needs?

 

[cin19]

The 2X780ti will block one of the pcieX1, but you can move the sound card to the pcieX16 ( I read it on EVGA forum ) and you may lost some performances of sli 780ti. http://cdn.overclock.net/9/92/500x1000px-LL-92b9bbcb__MG_6513.jpeg
And I can find other MB for you right now. Maybe some other member will find it for you.

 

[Endeavour05]

So you're saying I can move the sound card to pci-ex16 while still running sli and having the other two pciex1 ports available for the network adapter and capture card?

 

[cin19]

Yes.

 

[Damn_Rookie]

Just to add to what cin19 said, you won't lose any graphical performance by running the sound card in the bottom x16 PCIe slot; that slot is run directly from the chipset (x4 at Gen. 2.0 speed), so won't effect the two x16 slots that are connected to the CPU's PCIe lanes. The two graphics cards will still run at x8/x8 speed.