980ti SC SLI on ASUS Z170-DELUXE With INTEL 750 2.5" NVME M.2 x 4 SSD as Boot.

[BrokenPC]

980ti SC SLI on ASUS Z170-DELUXE With INTEL 750 2.5" NVME M.2 x 4 SSD as Boot.

So, I am gathering parts for my machine which will be a Dual EVGA 980ti SC SLI on an ASUS Z170-DELUXE mobo With INTEL 750 400GB 2.5" NVME M.2 x 4 SSD as Boot. I went with the 2.5" because I thought the PCIE drive was well, fugly. But now I am worried cause the little hyperkit deal looks like it will conflict with the video card. Looking around, the Asus site, it appears that I can install the hyper kit into they hyper card and put it in a PCIE slot if I have to. Anyhow, if anyone has any thoughts on this, let me know. I know if I rip the cooler off and put them on water I can avoid the conflict but I was hoping to avoid that. Anyways, I will sacrifice the drive before I sacrifice the SLI, and I will Sacrifice the motherboard if there is a better solution. All the motherboards appear to suffer from the same problem.

Also, anybody know the SLI connector size I need? 60mm or 80mm? (Long, Short)??

Thanks.

 

[Dlaw]

The board should come with an SLI connector.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

The board should come with an SLI connector.

This.

It's listed as an included accessory with the board.

 

[BrokenPC]

Yes, it came with the flexi one. I should have been more clear, I wanted the little plastic bit with the LED's in it that EVGA sells. They have two sizes, 60mm (small) and 80mm (large) Which I guess depends on which slots your cards are in and how far apart they are. I'll just hook em up and measure. I can use the flexi one in the mean time.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Ah, that makes more sense as to why you're asking.
It appears to be the long (80mm) pattern. See how there are two x1 slots between the two x16 slots?