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B3 1155 mobo with 2 SLI 16x slots + 3 USB 2.0 headers for front case ports

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BAD311

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Anyone know of a B3 ATX 1155 mobo that supports at least 2 16x SLI ready PCI-E slots and has a total of 3 USB 2.0 headers?

I bought a Corsair 600T WHT case and it requires 2 USB 2.0 headers for its USB ports mounted on the front of the case + I'm installing a 52-1 memory 3.5" memory card reader/writer unit that also requires a USB 2.0 header...

Sooo yea.... Looked for about 30 mins to no avail...

Is there a header splitter/adapter I could use if 3 header mobo's are non-existent?
 
for the x16 slots, do you want them to run at full x16 for both slots or would x8 speeds be fine?
Also any sort of budget?

There is the Maximus IV Extreme-Z which has 4 usb headers on the board and from the way I read it for the pcie it will do 2 of the slots at full x16 speeds
 
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Dahak said:
for the x16 slots, do you want them to run at full x16 for both slots or would x8 speeds be fine?
Also any sort of budget?

There is the Maximus IV Extreme-Z which has 4 usb headers on the board and from the way I read it for the pcie it will do 2 of the slots at full x16 speeds
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Yeah . . . that's a big-10-4, buddy. . . . It's a pricey board, even so . . . I see $359 at the Egg today.

I think you could compare this Maximus Extreme-Z to the P8Z68-V-Pro. You'll find that the SATA ports are the same, double the LAN ports (except for the Deluxe P8Z68), but the PCI-E X16 slots are more numerous on the Maximums with full x16(times 2) for SLI. I think you can get three-way SLI on this board.

There are some 8 USB2 and 2 USB3 ports, either at the I/O plate or in midboard. By comparison, the v-Pro has 6 and 2 respectively.

So the biggest difference I can see for a leap in price from maybe $210 to $359 is the SLI capability. [I'd look again to see if there's something else, but I couldn't find it the first go-around . . . ]

Heh . . . . again, a quick "take" -- I checked the review citations at the ASUS web-site for this Maximus Extreme-Z. These are the review cites on the Maximus product page. Of about 10 cites, 9 are reviews specific to the P8Z68-V-Pro, and one review for the Maximus Extreme-Z.

The PCI-E x16 slots come at a premium, and they crawfish onya with a lack of x1 slots. Depends on what you want to do, though. Personally, I just decided that SLI costs more in Kilowatts, and any one of the new "Fermi" and other graphics cards -- possibly but not exclusively working with the Z68 onboard iGPU -- offer "enough."

But as I said -- it's about "what you want to do." And it's nice to know you could take a V or V-PRo board, set up your whole system, pull it out six months later to drop in a Maximus Extreme-Z, and have little left to do to "update" your Windows installation, drivers etc.
 
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Nice guys, you rock! Yea the Maximus board is a little too pricey for my taste buds, but hey you gotta pay to play eh?

To answer Dahak's question, no I do not need the PCI-E slots both running at 16x.

To tell you the truth, I do not know what the difference would be when two video cards are installed both at 16X PCI-X versus 16X & 8X or both @ 8X.

Is there a article I can read about the differences? Obviously speed, but does it degrade visual quality? lower the FPS? etc... I don't know.

So in my original post the request for dual 16x slots can be overlooked, but the 3 USB2.0 headers on the mobo are still a necessity.
 
You should also note that there will be different slots to put the cards in depending on whether you use the NF200 or not, and it may be a factor in your overall build for GPU cooling. You can download the manual for the board to review this. For my case, running two slots at 8X worked best.
 
@BonziaDuck, yeah at the time I posted I did not know if he wanted the 2 x16's at full speed so I had only looked at that, then the forums went down.

@Bad311 - yes the P8Z68-V PRO Bonziaduck mentioned is a good one too, as well as some other options

P8Z68-V - Loose the marvel sata 6g ports, firewire, but $30 cheaper on egg

P67 Chipset Options
P8P67 (REV 3.1) or rev 3.0 -- difference between 3.1 and 3.0 is different usb3 controller
P8P67 Pro P8P67 PRO (REV 3.1) or rev 3.0 -- difference between 3.1 and 3.0 is different usb3 controller

Id post some gigabyte options too, but there naming scheme is odd and I cannot look at them quickly
 
To chime in on my experience with one of the boards. I really like my Asus P8Z68-V so far. Only $171 - $10 coupon code = $161 at ewiz.com right now. Good price, lots of features, great overclocker and runs my 6950's in CFX. It is missing firewire as was mentioned (who uses firewire these days?) and is down 2 SATA 6Gbs connections, so it only has 2.

Ports: 12x USB 2.0 Ports (6 rear, 6 at mid-board); 4x USB 3.0 Ports (2 rear, 2 at mid-board)
Slots: 3x PCI-Express 2.0 x16 Slots(two run at x8, one run at x4or x1, Supports ATI Quad-CrossFireX and nVidia Quad SLI Technology)
 
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