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post #191 of 201
5/23/12 at 12:57pm
Board is working great with the PLX chip. Getting some really nice and high GPU utilization numbers with two overclocked GTX 680's each in their own 16x speed 3.0 slots.
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post #192 of 201
5/23/12 at 1:19pm
quick question

with this board is it possible to use the 1st pcie lane and 4th for sli
to create a big gap between the cards for airflow so the top can run cooler
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post #193 of 201
5/23/12 at 1:44pm
What would happen to the pci-e slots if someone threw a 2500K in the socket.
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post #194 of 201
5/23/12 at 1:49pm
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Originally Posted by Harry604 View Post

quick question
with this board is it possible to use the 1st pcie lane and 4th for sli
to create a big gap between the cards for airflow so the top can run cooler

problem is finding a long enough SLI connector
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post #195 of 201
5/23/12 at 8:58pm
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Originally Posted by Harry604 View Post

quick question
with this board is it possible to use the 1st pcie lane and 4th for sli
to create a big gap between the cards for airflow so the top can run cooler

Even with air coolers, you would still have a two slot gap between them (unless you went with those huge 3-slot GPU's). That would be plenty of space for air inlet. Here you can see with water blocks I have three slots distance open:


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Originally Posted by AddictedGamer93 View Post

What would happen to the pci-e slots if someone threw a 2500K in the socket.

They would stay the same link speed, just drop down to 2.0 instead of 3.0
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post #196 of 201
5/23/12 at 9:31pm
I have a long enough sli connector

im running 2 gtx 580 lightning extremes they take up and 2 and a bit

so i would run it on the 1st and 4th slot

u answered my question thx...

my z77 gd65 wont let me run it on the 1st and 3rd pcie slot even with a 3570k for some reason
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post #197 of 201
5/29/12 at 9:37am
here is my review: http://www.overclock.net/t/1262935/g1-sniper-3-review-plx8747vsnf200-circuit-analysis-ln2oc-core3d
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post #198 of 201
5/30/12 at 6:51pm
how big is the sniper 3? does it fit in a very small atx case?
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post #199 of 201
5/30/12 at 7:17pm
Id rather buy a ASROCK Z77 Fatal!ty Professional with 16 Power Phases.
Oh wait, I did tongue.gif

Honestly until Gigabyte gets there colors in order I'm staying away. I dont want Bright Neon or Bright Turquoise on my Motherboard.

My last board (Gigabyte P67A-UD7) was an amazing looking board, Gold and Black throughout, nice and sleek and simple, not like this neon green crap.

Though if I was building a "Nvidia" based theme; this might be nice, but unless Nvidia pays me to build one, I wont be.
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post #200 of 201
5/31/12 at 12:39am
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Id rather buy a ASROCK Z77 Fatal!ty Professional with 16 Power Phases.
Oh wait, I did tongue.gif
Honestly until Gigabyte gets there colors in order I'm staying away. I dont want Bright Neon or Bright Turquoise on my Motherboard.
My last board (Gigabyte P67A-UD7) was an amazing looking board, Gold and Black throughout, nice and sleek and simple, not like this neon green crap.
Though if I was building a "Nvidia" based theme; this might be nice, but unless Nvidia pays me to build one, I wont be.

I know look's are totally subjective, but to me the Sniper 3 board is much more original and look's a lot better than the tired old red and black theme, especially called something corny like "Fatal1ty" and lightening bolt heat-sinks. This board is also designed to do 4-way SLI and Crossfire, something most Z77 board's cannot do.

The only thing I'd upgrade my Sniper 3 would be to the ASRock Extreme11 if it ever launches (heatsink's removed):


550


Now that's a sweet motherboard and would be the ultimate for high-resolution 4-way GPU Surround/Eyefinity. wink.gif
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