New member my rig

[Etihad]

Hey all,

I've just signed up, seems like a really nice forum on here. Anyway thought to share my setup:

Intel i7 6700k @ 4.8GHZ 1.36V
Asus maximus viii extreme
Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 16GB @ 3000mhz
Kingston HyperX 450GB SSD
Asus ROG GTX 980TI Matrix Platinum
Corsair H110iGTX
SoundBlaster-Z
Corsair RM850
Asus ROG Swift PG279Q
Corsair 780T

 

[Kilbane]

Welcome to the forums dude, enjoy your stay!

 

[Wraith]

Very nice rig fella, welcome to the OC3D forums.

 

[Doomslayer]

Good system but IMO the Case badges wreck the whole build

 

[Excalabur50]

Welcome to the forums and nice build

 

[TalllPaul]

Very nice Welcome

 

[Etihad]

thanks for the warm welcome. I may take the case badges off, I think the intel one looks out of place hehe.

Am going to get another Asus 980ti Matrix card and sli them. Will my PSU hold up do you reckon??

 

[Excalabur50]

With an 850 no problem

 

[Kilbane]

thanks for the warm welcome. I may take the case badges off, I think the intel one looks out of place hehe.

Am going to get another Asus 980ti Matrix card and sli them. Will my PSU hold up do you reckon??

850w will be fine for SLI, just be aware that you will need to check where your sound card will be able to go due to adding a 2nd GPU, depending on board and availability of pcie lanes may also effect the bandwidth available to the SLI configuration.

 

[Etihad]

As far as I understand, top pci is x16, the other's are x8. I did have my gpu sat in the x8 pci before but moved it to the x16 slot. so should be fine. The bottom pci slot is not for gpu's and only for soundcard or pci ssd's etc.

I know I'd loose the use of that bottom pci slot with another card, but the extreme board comes with a very good soundcard from reading reviews, I havnt actually tested it.

 

[JR23]

While the motherboard has a ridiculous amount of slots the CPU itself only has 16 PCIe lanes making it a not particularly extreme combination, it's existence baffles me. The only slots which support SLI are PCIEX16/X8_1 and PCIEX8/X4_3 because they are the only ones physically capable of x8.

Installing cards in those slots would physically block every other PCIe slot apart from PCIEX1_1. The manual does not clearly state if that can use lanes from the chipset, even then they may be shared with M.2, U.2 or SATA ports. So I think you would end up removing your sound card if you added another GPU, the on-board audio is most likely better anyway and if not an external solution definitely would be.

JR

 

[Kilbane]

The full size PCIE Slots on the Maximus VIII Extreme run as follows (From top to bottom)

1/ 16x/8x
2/ 4x
3/ 8x/4x
4/ 4x

You can run up to Quad GPU's on the Extreme board. Operating speed on PCIE are dependant on the amount of slots used etc. i.e if running dual GPU's in slots 1 + 3, both will run at 8x speed. 3 way GPU's in slots 1,2 + 3 will run at 8x, 4x and 4x. Quad will run 8x, 4x, 4x and 4x. (anything above dual GPU is CF only due to PCIE restrictions to 4x)

Edit : As JR said, sorry dude, didn't see your reply

 

[Etihad]

Much appreciated guy's. Yeah It will be slot 1&3. I've never fully understood this, but having both GPU's running in x8 wouldn't effect performance when compared to x16, am right? x8 provides ample bandwith or not?

 

[Kilbane]

Much appreciated guy's. Yeah It will be slot 1&3. I've never fully understood this, but having both GPU's running in x8 wouldn't effect performance when compared to x16, am right? x8 provides ample bandwith or not?

8x on SLI is ample dude and pretty standard short of some very specific boards and X99 based systems.

 

[JR23]

Much appreciated guy's. Yeah It will be slot 1&3. I've never fully understood this, but having both GPU's running in x8 wouldn't effect performance when compared to x16, am right? x8 provides ample bandwith or not?

It would be very difficult to differentiate the performance of using PCIE3.0 x8 and x16, perhaps in extreme circumstances with dual GPU cards in certain benchmarks it would be exaggerated. The difference between PCIe3.0 and PCIe2.0 although half the bandwidth also isn't really noticeable, if you have enough bandwidth then there is not benefit to having more.

If for instance you tried to use two AMD cards in crossfire along with a sound card they would run at x8/x4/x1, not x8/x7/x1 so adding a sound card may cripple GPU performance. I don't think SLI can be enabled when using a slot in x4 hence why so many motherboards are dual-SLI certified but quad-CF. I think it probably costs more to get SLI certification too but on the positive side, if you can enable it then it will work effectively.

JR

 

[Etihad]

Thanks alot JR for explaining in depth, I understand now. I will post a picture when I install it, probably tuesday. I will remove the soundcard out. Let's just hope I have sufficent cooling to keep these cards cool. I have removed one of the hardisk cages since the pictures so the cards do get direct cooling, aswell as a 120mm fan on the bottom pushing air up. Current temps in gaming is 65 degrees.

Some may argue why spend the money and get a 2nd matrix, the reason is I'll be getting it for £340 brand new.

 

[chudley]

welcome to the forums matey :wavey:

Nice build Etihad, nothing a couple of cable ties here and there couldn't make even better (can't forget the OCD of OC3D)

 

[WYP]

Welcome to the forums mate.

Very nice PC you have there.

 

[Etihad]

Thanks all for the warm welcome. Hahaha, it's funny you should mention OCD, I actually have OCD myself. Am not fully done with it. Am just waiting for tomorrow to get another 980TI Matrix and hopefully I'll be tidying it up.

By the way I was watching the reviews of the new Asus swift 4K monitor, and came across this youtube video.

I think OC3D team or Tinytomlogan should have a word with Nvidia!!! When I saw this system they gave this guy for free my jaw dropped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fa6PAo5FHc

 

[Etihad]

Well new card is in, I did buy a ROG sli bridge but it doesn't fit, I have to buy a 3-way I think for it to fit.