LGA1155 motherboard for quad 7970s

[Xponential]

Does anyone know if anybody makes a socket LGA1155 motherboard with (4) PCI-e 3.0 x16 slots?? I have looked high and low and can't find one anywhere. The closest I've found is a couple boards that have (3) PCI-e 3.0 x16 slots and (1) x8 slot. I know I can get a LGA2011 board with 4 of those slots, but I'm trying to go with an Ivy Bridge CPU.


Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[snoylekim]

Asus P8Z77-WS ??

 

[crashtech]

If you want to go for the gold, the Asus Maximus V Extreme is pretty much the king of Asus 1155 boards.

 

[Xponential]

I thought I was going to need (4) PCI-e 3.0 slots all running @ x16. I was reminded on another forum that 7970s don't come close to saturating even a PCI-e 3.0 x8 slot, so I'm definitely good now.

Thanks for the help!

 

[UaVaj]

7970 needs 8x of pcie3.0 or 16x of pcie2.0.

so that means you need quad 8x pcie3.0. asrock z77 extreme 9 comes to mind.

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at that price point n configuration. every data recommended ditching the quad 7970 and going dual titan.

 

[Xponential]

7970 needs 8x of pcie3.0 or 16x of pcie2.0.

so that means you need quad 8x pcie3.0. asrock z77 extreme 9 comes to mind.

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at that price point n configuration. every data recommended ditching the quad 7970 and going dual titan.

Yes, I'm trying to decide between that board or a Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3. I'll probably end up going with the Gigabyte board.

 

[dawp]

if your going with the expense of a quad hd7970, why limit yourself to 1155 socket? a 2011 socket board would be more suited to a quad crossfire setup. your still going to be limited by the cpu as the ivy bridge still will be limited by how many pcie channels it has, the most you can get is 4 x8 and the pci-e 3.0 wont increase performance by that much.

the 1155 socket really isn't the best choice for such a system.

 

[crashtech]

A bigger and more immediately gratifying favor would be for some posters to keep useless, gratuitously insulting and off-topic remarks to themselves.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

A bigger and more immediately gratifying favor would be for some posters to keep useless, gratuitously insulting and off-topic remarks to themselves.

"Gratuitously insulting" aspects -- of no use. But the OP's handle is a marvelous hint to explore "performance versus cost" tradeoffs. Low-power configurations are as valid for an objective as unparalleled performance. It then becomes a choice between "super-hero" game box, or a high-performance multi-purpose rig with lower power-draw.

 

[crashtech]

"Gratuitously insulting" aspects -- of no use. But the OP's handle is a marvelous hint to explore "performance versus cost" tradeoffs. Low-power configurations are as valid for an objective as unparalleled performance. It then becomes a choice between "super-hero" game box, or a high-performance multi-purpose rig with lower power-draw.

It is of value to explore price/performance ratios, but that wasn't the question here.

 

[jacksonn24]

Does anyone know if anybody makes a socket LGA1155 motherboard with (4) PCI-e 3.0 x16 slots?? I have looked high and low and can't find one anywhere. The closest I've found is a couple boards that have (3) PCI-e 3.0 x16 slots and (1) x8 slot. I know I can get a LGA2011 board with 4 of those slots, but I'm trying to go with an Ivy Bridge CPU.


Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

gigabyte z77-up7 i have this board really is an amazing board


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[tweakboy]

You go with Ivy, your gonna be sorry in 3 months when Ivy Bridge E comes out Q3 2013. 6 to 8 core enthusiast line. gl

 

[iFati]

what about asus maximus v formula ?

 

[tweakboy]

Maximus means gaming motherboard... is just 4 slots for quad sli or xfire ,,,,

 

[axium]

^ The formula only supports 3 gpu setup. The extreme supports quad.

I'm bought an evga z77 ftw for this purpose and I wish I went with the maximus instead. Can't recommend the evga board at all.

 

[tweakboy]

Nice axium you made the right choice. Asus pownz!!!!! #1 in mobos ,, end of story, a nicer looking UEFI bios to boot too........thx, gl

 

[SolMiester]

4 x 7970?....Brave man given the issues of CF drivers....

 

[axium]

^ I actually second that statement as well. I recently went from crossfire 7970 to trifire. It has been hell. Crossfire worked pretty well most of the time, but trifire is nothing but issues, sometimes providing worse performance than crossfire. I shudder to think about a quad set up.