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- Sep 20, 2001
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- Bakersfield, CA
For my Win7 gaming rig, my eVGZ Z97 Classified currently has a 1080Ti in the top PCIEx16 slot and an Audigy RX sound card in the 1x slot. The manual states to use PE1 and 4 for 2-card SLI, which with any 2-slot GPU will block the PCIEx1 slot which is connected to the chipset. All of the full length PCIE slots connect via the PLX chip before going to the CPU. I do want to toy with SLI on the setup either with my GTX 960s or Titan Blacks, or maybe even another 1080Ti Kingpin if I'm feeling insane enough. I'm not sure it matters all that much, but I'm trying to figure out where to put the sound card with an SLI setup. Looks like the best bet will be PE6 to split the lanes with the bottom GPU, with PE3 as an alternative. I was digging around and it looks like those people that had a PCIE SSD used the bottom slot when they ran SLI.