Thank you. That's what I had hoped. I don't have a need to do it now, but I also thought I might go with a different mobo if I had to. Now I'm good to go.And if you use 2 Put one In pcie 1 and the second in pcie 3. It'll run fine as SLI.
I wonder how well that second card would run with it jammed up against the upper one? I mean this beast is sitting on top of the second slot, so the lower one would so tight against it that it might impede the fan itself. I think I'd rather go with another mobo to avoid that issue. Even with the 200mm fan I installed on the side of the case I don't think it would get enough air to that first card.SLI and Crossfire are for dual GPU setups (SLI is for Nvidia and Crosfire is for AMD). If you're using just one GPU it goes in the PCIe x 16 slot, which should be the first slot on the board. If you going with a dual GPU setup, either Crossfire/SLI, then the 2nd GPU would go in the second slot and a bridge would be used to connect the 2 GPU's to make them act as a single GPU. Depending on the mobo, the second slot is either at x8 or x16.
If you're just using the one GPU there is no worries, just use the first slot.
I wonder how well that second card would run with it jammed up against the upper one? I mean this beast is sitting on top of the second slot, so the lower one would so tight against it that it might impede the fan itself. I think I'd rather go with another mobo to avoid that issue. Even with the 200mm fan I installed on the side of the case I don't think it would get enough air to that first card.
Thanks! I stopped buying those "Media Center" PCs, thinking they'd play the games I liked and being disappointed after 6 mos. when the GPU inside would already be below minimums for games. So I took my time and read up on what I really needed, and what I could do without. This one is finally running the way I've always wanted. CPU is OCed to 4.4ghz with only a tiny voltage boost-still idles on water @25c-and the GPU, the one component that has always given me headaches, is playing Skyrim and the top temps are never above 60c. The fix for the GPU to run so cool-it was in the mid-70s last month, is a 200mm fan on the side of the case; the case temps dropped 5c as well.One helluva a card you got there...nice case as well.
Sure you can use it...