Will my Graphics Cards Fit on my motherboard ?

[ROGUE10501]

Howzit guys

Looking at getting myself 2 EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Super clocked cards for my pc
I have the new MAXIMUS VII FORMULA From Republic of Gamers Mother Board.
A single Card takes up the following Dimensions:
Height: 4.376in - 111.15mm
Length: 10.5in - 266.7mm
Width: Dual Slot

My Question is will 2 of these cards fit on this motherboard without any problems ?
Will I see any loss of performance on the second card ? and is SLI worth it and if so am I making a good choice of card to SLI with ?
Thanks

 

[delaro]

You have 2 x PCIe 3.0 X 16 slots for Max possible bandwidth at the moment and they are spaced far enough to not cause any cooling issues so you should be fine.

 

[Samat]

Any motherboard with multiple x16 PCIe slots will fit those cards. As for the performance on SLI/crossfire is always dependant on the game specific driver profiles. You can check this article by guru 3d to see the performance on dual and triple SLI setup: http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geforce-gtx-980-sli-review,1.html.

 

[ROGUE10501]

Yeah fair enough but those 2 x 16 PCI 3 slots are the first and second slot are they not?
So wont the first graphics card take up the second PCI slot forcing me to use the bottom slot

 

[Samat]

Yeah fair enough but those 2 x 16 PCI 3 slots are the first and second slot are they not?
So wont the first graphics card take up the second PCI slot forcing me to use the bottom slot

There is enough space in between, as you can see there is also a PCIex1 slot in between and you could use that aswell. You could put 3 of those gfx cards on that motherboard.