my asrock z77 xtreme4 is getting close to 4 years old i think. i have zero reason to upgrade.

are you trying to use the dead ram slot on that mb?
if not, upgrade your graphics card

This post was edited by Penguins0690 on Feb 10 2016 09:51am

I never knew of the eight lane Nvidia SLI requirement. Does AMD have the same?

A PCI-E 2 x4 slot would probably be a noticeable bottleneck for a 660, too.

Here's the SLI confirmation:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-sli-faq,4079.html

Nvidia does not specifically state this:
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/sli/system-requirements

"NVIDIA recommends a PCI-E 2.0 x16 motherboard for the best performance."
Recommending is not the same as requiring, so Nvidia should change that...

This post was edited by L4d on Feb 10 2016 10:07am

no. AMD does not has this requirement.

This post was edited by maulepan on Feb 10 2016 10:06am

atm got the money and just goin for upgrade just not satisfied with what i got pretty much

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Canadian_Born/saved/#view=rb6J7P

thats my current gaming, photo/vid editing, music composition, dj rig.. does everything i need it to do..

I had the M5A 97 R2.0 motherboard, and found the 8320/8350 bottlenecks on the chipset, under extreme rendering. since upgrading to the M5A 99FX Pro R2; I havnt had an issue.

as my build shows, I am running a 2 way sli, and havnt had an issue with it, however ive had a few friends with the same motherboard complain about issues in 2 way sli with other manufacturers primarily evga, (i am running dual MSI Geforce gtx 980ti's)


in my opinion the m5a 99fx pro r2 is the most solid motherboard for the 8320/8390 cpu's; however; some would probably disagree

you can look into the sabertooth, or rampage as well if you wanted to opt for older chipsets

Sabertooth 990FX uses the same chipset as you have. Crosshair V also uses the same one. What are you talking about?