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z87 board for 2-way sli (air cooled) and a soundcard

Gtechzero
Level 7
hi,

what would be a good asus mobo for two way sli with gtx 770s and a essence st soundcard. I was looking into the maximus hero, but i i think if i were to put in two gpus and soundcard it would compromise the cooling of the gpus, maybe i'm wrong if so please correct me 🙂 and if not please recommend me something else, preferably atx.
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kkn
Level 14
hero or formula, cooling of the GPU's will be the same what ever mobo you use.
i would say its the airflow in the case, mabye a fan on the door of the case.
the formyla have a opamp ( if i dont remember wrong ) a 600ohm amp on the board.
take a look on the specs of them and see.

Masterbobo
Level 7
for an asus board I would recommend the asus rampage formula its has plenty of room and slots.
Rampage IV Extreme
55" Samsung 3D LED 1080p
19" NEC side monitor
4930k @ 3.9ghz (h100i)
Dominator GT 2133mhz 16gb
2xDomiatorGT RAM cooling fans
OCZ Vertex 4 RAID0 2x256gb
Silent Pro GOLD 1200
3xGTX 770's 4GB Windforce TRI-SLI
Sound Blaster Zx
Logitech Z5500 digital 5.1
2xLG 3D Blu ray burners
Silverstone Multi USB3 card reader
2x4terabyte WD backup sata6.0 drives
1x1terabyte WD backup sata6.0 drive
10 Antec tri cool 120mm fans
Razor Deathadder mouse
Corsair 600t
Win7-64bit

Gtechzero
Level 7
the rampage IV formula is x79 chipset :D, mate i think you were drunk when you wrote your post, your a guru after all, and you recommended x79 chipset for someone who is looking into z87. I will probably look into the formula because it looks awesome 😄

Gtechzero wrote:
the rampage IV formula is x79 chipset :D, mate i think you were drunk when you wrote your post, your a guru after all, and you recommended x79 chipset for someone who is looking into z87. I will probably look into the formula because it looks awesome 😄


LMAO I thought you needed a board-cpu-ram and suggested the X79 route cause there is a new cpu dropping for it. but for the z87 I would go with asus or gigabyte see which board has the room to accommodate those big cards lol
Rampage IV Extreme
55" Samsung 3D LED 1080p
19" NEC side monitor
4930k @ 3.9ghz (h100i)
Dominator GT 2133mhz 16gb
2xDomiatorGT RAM cooling fans
OCZ Vertex 4 RAID0 2x256gb
Silent Pro GOLD 1200
3xGTX 770's 4GB Windforce TRI-SLI
Sound Blaster Zx
Logitech Z5500 digital 5.1
2xLG 3D Blu ray burners
Silverstone Multi USB3 card reader
2x4terabyte WD backup sata6.0 drives
1x1terabyte WD backup sata6.0 drive
10 Antec tri cool 120mm fans
Razor Deathadder mouse
Corsair 600t
Win7-64bit

HiVizMan
Level 40
Budget is key to what you decide on here.

The formula is a peach of a board.

But the Hero will do the job too.
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kkn
Level 14
most of the cards now adays is 2 slot, but there are those whos 3 slot too.