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Will this Motherboard fit my build??

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RSlothMan

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CPU Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler Zalman CNPS9900MAX-B CPU Cooler
Motherboard MSI Z68MA-G45 (B3) Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Memory Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Hard Drive Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Hard Drive Crucial M4 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
Video Card Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB Video Card
Case NZXT Gamma Classic (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply OCZ 750W ATX12V Power Supply
Optical Drive Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer
Monitor Acer G215HVAbd 21.5" Monitor

I see this motherboard up for shellshocker later today and I think it will be pretty cheap seeing its current price before shell shocker. I looked at the reviews and a few people complained about it not fitting in their case due to the location of the X16 slots not fitting their video cards. I have been looking online but I have so far not been able to find out anything. I have been waiting on a deal for ASRock Extreme 3 or 4 but I would like to snag this if it is enough of a deal.
 
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The only things I can think owuld be preventing them installing their graphics cards are either large heatsinks on the CPU or GPUs too large for their micro ATX cases. Most likely the former IMHO
 
I have also not been able to find any reviews on this board. I know MSI is considered a reasonable brand but do I lose anything going mini ATX instead of ATX?
 
I also just noticed that the board does not have a pcie x16, would I not lose out on GPU performance? I am pretty confused by pcie x16 and pcie x8 and how many you need on a motherboard. to crossfire you need a pcie x16 and a pcie x8? or do you need both pcie x16?
 
Uh, I looked at it and it looks like it can take 2 graphics cards. I can't remember what I read quickly about that but I believe I read something like 16x16 is either rare or not available at the moment. In any case, it says 8x8 on the newegg website.

By not going full ATX, you would miss out on expansion slots. Like you probabl already know, different motherboards have different expansion slots and also looking at eSATA, firewire, that could connect to camcorders or whatever. There's USB 3.0 on that mobo but that will come out with Win8 if I'm correct.
 
Thanks for the reply. So you do not think I would see much performance loss running a HD6950 on a x8 port instead of a x16? I had seen some threads saying there was only a few % lost but they were older threads with older video cards so I am not sure if it still holds true.
 
If it's only a few percent, then it may be negligeable. I looked at benchmarks where I was trying to see the difference between a GTX 560 and 8800 GS and can tell you from what I saw (had to guess because the graphs only had a GT etc.), it looked like in modern games the GTX 560 would give either triple the performance or more (as in, 0 frame rates with an 8800 GT or even HD 4670 which I have on another computer).
 
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