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Motherboards with 4 PCIe slots

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coolamasta

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Hi all,

Need a bit of help please, I am building a demo system for work which will involve a high spec pc running 6 x 40" TV's, I have decided to use the Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 graphics cards but to run 6 screens I would need 3 cards so need a motherboard with a least 3 x PCIe x16 slots, all I can find out there are boards with 4 slots but 2 run at x16 and 2 run at x4 which I would imagine wont be good enough if the cards are x16 each?

Also I might be building a high spec folding/gaming machine and running 4 x 8800gt's/9800gt's in quad SLi so would like a board with 4xPCIe x16 slots for that if they exist?!

Any help is much appreciated! :beer:
 
Thanks for the reply mate im happy to use AMD, any ideas how the Quadro's would react to this board? IE: if the cards are x16 each and this board can run 2 of the slots in x16 mode but the other 2 in x8 mode would the cards still work ok?! If that makes sense lol
 
Why the quadro's?

You could run those on any motherboard with 4 pci-e slots just fine, if they're limited to 8x or even 4x you likely won't notice a difference. Hell, most higher end GPUs aren't bottlenecked by x8 speeds.


And for the quad-9800gt folding rig, it won't be running in SLI mode, run them as separate GPUs running 4 clients
 
Originally posted by: yh125d
Why the quadro's?

You could run those on any motherboard with 4 pci-e slots just fine, if they're limited to 8x or even 4x you likely won't notice a difference. Hell, most higher end GPUs aren't bottlenecked by x8 speeds.


And for the quad-9800gt folding rig, it won't be running in SLI mode, run them as separate GPUs running 4 clients
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Cheers mate that was what I wasn't sure on, I don't fully understand about the x16, x8, x4 speeds on PCIe so thats why I wondered if it dropping to x8 would cause any issues for the cards although I didn't think there would be.

So 3 x Quadro's on that MSI K9A2 board would be fine you think?

Only using the Quadro's as I already have 2 here in work so only need to buy 1 more to run the 6 monitors 🙂

 
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