My conundrum...
I want to go tri SLI or for the potential for 4 titans. My Lian Li PC-70 USB however, fits the motherboards on the bottom and SLi / Tri SLi / Quad SLi was not really a "Big thing in '00. Which gives me a problem with my current Gigabyte X58-ud5 see photo:
So that means I need a PCI x16 setup which sits as high up as possible.
Upgrade path, I am thinking of ditching Haswell and going for the LGA 2011 chip either 4930K or 4960X (most likely 4930 as 1k is steep for minimal improvement).
Motherboard wise, I'd like the ability for tri / quad SLI ( I currently have 3 1600p monitors and sli titans):
Chipset wise, I am confused which is the best mobo for me...
1. Want more than 5 SATA 6GB ports (I would like to run my Raid 0 Samsung Pro 840 SSD's in SATA 6GB/S then it would be nice to run my 3 WD Red 3TB drives on the new SATA 6GB/s ports. My Blu Ray & Seagate 1.5tb wouldn't really matter.)
2. more than 4 USB 3.0 ports... Really why in the world are they making usb2.0 update it to 3.0 and be done.
3. I would like to have 16+GB of Ram... Ram disk? Makes sense when my GPu memory is 12GB with 2 titans.
4. PCIE 3.0 and 3-4 PCI x16 slots. if we are upgrading shouldn't they have it?
Motherboard wise where does this leave me? Seems there are only 3 x79 choices.
Mobo 1. Asus Rampage IV Extremeike the idea of the rampage but it does not run more than 2 cards at x16. What does it mean 4USB 3.0 in the mid? SATA wise, is the other eSATA 6GB ports able to use my other WD Red drives??
Mobo 2. AsRock Motherboard. Seems there are a bunch of X79 series and I have no idea what the difference is between them.
Mobo3 Asus Sabertooth seems like a cheaper version of the rampage but no3 3 x16 PCIE 3.0 ports.
I want to go tri SLI or for the potential for 4 titans. My Lian Li PC-70 USB however, fits the motherboards on the bottom and SLi / Tri SLi / Quad SLi was not really a "Big thing in '00. Which gives me a problem with my current Gigabyte X58-ud5 see photo:
So that means I need a PCI x16 setup which sits as high up as possible.
Upgrade path, I am thinking of ditching Haswell and going for the LGA 2011 chip either 4930K or 4960X (most likely 4930 as 1k is steep for minimal improvement).
Motherboard wise, I'd like the ability for tri / quad SLI ( I currently have 3 1600p monitors and sli titans):
Chipset wise, I am confused which is the best mobo for me...
1. Want more than 5 SATA 6GB ports (I would like to run my Raid 0 Samsung Pro 840 SSD's in SATA 6GB/S then it would be nice to run my 3 WD Red 3TB drives on the new SATA 6GB/s ports. My Blu Ray & Seagate 1.5tb wouldn't really matter.)
2. more than 4 USB 3.0 ports... Really why in the world are they making usb2.0 update it to 3.0 and be done.
3. I would like to have 16+GB of Ram... Ram disk? Makes sense when my GPu memory is 12GB with 2 titans.
4. PCIE 3.0 and 3-4 PCI x16 slots. if we are upgrading shouldn't they have it?
Motherboard wise where does this leave me? Seems there are only 3 x79 choices.
Mobo 1. Asus Rampage IV Extremeike the idea of the rampage but it does not run more than 2 cards at x16. What does it mean 4USB 3.0 in the mid? SATA wise, is the other eSATA 6GB ports able to use my other WD Red drives??
Mobo 2. AsRock Motherboard. Seems there are a bunch of X79 series and I have no idea what the difference is between them.
Mobo3 Asus Sabertooth seems like a cheaper version of the rampage but no3 3 x16 PCIE 3.0 ports.