X58A - UD9 and SLI

[purebred]

 

We're planing to buy UD9 mainboard for computing something at university. We will use 2-Way SLI with GTX 590. They are x16. It's no problem. But we will use 2 quantity x8 card not graphics card. I mean we will use x16 x16 x8 x8 four cards. Does the mainboard support this form?

Thanks

[Aussie Allan]

 

   So you want advice on data mining...is this correct ?

  Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

Sounds like it to me Allan!

It shouldn't be a problem as far as the technical side goes. The motherboard will do this with no problems but make sure that your PSU is up to it also.

[purebred]

somebody said to me your graphics cards work as x8  Is this correct?  

[purebred]

Sounds like it to me Allan!

It shouldn't be a problem as far as the technical side goes. The motherboard will do this with no problems but make sure that your PSU is up to it also.

We will use SilverStone 1500W. Maybe we can use 2 PSU

[Aussie Allan]

  1500 should be ample and 8xPCI-E will be more then enough bandwidth for your needs.....also read up on Physics X.....big improvement with where your going

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/08/16/sli_cfx_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x16x8/6

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GTX_480_PCI-Express_Scaling/1.html

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=629631

  Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

I agree with Allan there about the PSU, that model should be plenty and give good quality output which is important.

The graphics cards will have the full 16x bandwidth available to them, although they wont be able to use it all, as long as they are put in the correct slots. See the manual for this. It is clearly explained there which PCIE slots to use when using multiples. The other cards will also be fine at 8x too.

[Aussie Allan]

  I think the idea is to fill the lot.......if giga made a 32 PCI-E slot board , you'd catch the entire world wide data mining community overnight!

  Aussie Allan

[ric65041]

We're planing to buy UD9 mainboard for computing something at university. We will use 2-Way SLI with GTX 590. They are x16. It's no problem. But we will use 2 quantity x8 card not graphics card. I mean we will use x16 x16 x8 x8 four cards. Does the mainboard support this form?

Thanks

Hi there

Interested with this setup with 2-way SLI graphics cards and 2 x 'quantity cards' as well. Are these PCI-E SSD cards?

I thought that for SLI configuration on this board one has to use slots 1 & slot 3 [both PCI x16 slots] Your diagram shows that the two PCIE x16 in SLI configuration are in slots 1 & 7, again both PCIE x16 slots, while the two data cards are in the PCIE x8 slots

What sort of memory you will install and data storage?

[ric65041]

somebody said to me your graphics cards work as x8  Is this correct?  

Sorry, had the wrong quote before.

What are the two 'non-graphics cards'? Are they PCIE-SSD cards?

Perhaps verify with 'Tech Support' regarding your intended SLI configuration, whether it will be different from the recommendation
of using the first PCIE-x16  & the third PCIE- x 16 slots on the board, as you intend to use two cards only.

The data PCIE cards should work without any problem in any of the other 5 empty slots?

I'm sure the system/board should work but I would get advice from tech support before set up!

[Dark Mantis]

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