Hi, will this work with a r9 290x Gigabyte Windforce? Also how many slots does this take up? I have four PCIe x16 slots. I have 2 r9 290x and a PCIe 4x SSD card that fits in a x16 slot. I want to make sure they will all fit in my motherboard. Thanks.
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Would need to know the make of your motherboard first, since that is the base for spacing issues. But as for how many slots it will take up, if you use the back plate radiator it will take up two slots. But yes it is rated for that card.
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Not sure if I could answer that. I use it as a basic PC. It has 1 x PCI Express x16 slot and 1 x PCI Express x1 slot. I would pick the best available based on reviews on places like Newegg. Sorry if that isn't much help.
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Yes the card will work fine with it. That motherboard has PCIe 2.0 and the card does have the ability to work with PCIe 3.0 but you may or may not see any difference depending on what you are doing. As far as the performance difference the R9 280X is literally a rebranded Radeon HD 7970, and you could accurately say that the R9 280 is more like a rebranded Radeon HD 7950. Both of the cards will be excellent choices, I would probably go for the cheapest one myself and save yourself some bucks as the differences are small. It's interesting to note that AMD is releasing an interesting line of Cards. The 280 is just a less beefy copy of the 280X but is by and large the same card, much like the R9 290 and R9 290X are the same card, just less power on the 290.
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No, it only fits a regular PCI slot... Very nice card, and certainly worth the money. I should know. I've got one in my Windows 7 64 bit system. Tremendous card for the money.
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I'm not sure an r9 290x has the horsepower to drive that many monitors. A 2k monitor takes about 1.5 to 2 gigs of VRAM to drive, and the reference 290x has only 4 gigs. Without sufficient VRAM the regular ddr3 ram is utilized which is much slower than GDDR5. And no crossfiring 2 cards doesn't double the effective amount of VRAM, only the computational workload is shared between GPUs, the second cards VRAM isn't utilized in crossfire for display driving. I would look at non-reference cards and see if one is made that can support your needs.
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Do you have a pci express x16 2.0, 2.1, or 3.0 and a powersuply of more then 400w with either a 6 pin connector or 2 molex connectors? If so, then yes. ------------------ Under further reaserch of the bored you(hopfully) don't yet have I have to say is EXTREAM OVER KILL. that board runs 200 ish here on amazon and you only need all the stuff it has if your trying to run a server while edditing videos/ rendering them. this is a mid-range card an the motherboard you speak of is the low of the high. sooo you would be better of with the gigabyte 270x or up or a duel set up with this card. If you don't know about what I speak (since you don't appear to know much about compatibility ) I would suggest a cheaper first rig, and also something newer. getting a good bored is important but aim for a newer one. reaserch research a d research. and more research. YouTube helps a lot. I hope this impute was helpful, good luck with the build!
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The card is limited by the mobo bandwidth as far as speeds go. As you stated Rev2, that is what you will most likely be limited to. It's a 1x form, but will work in a x16 slot as well.
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So...the card is double wide (takes up two card bays or "slots") but only uses one PCIE connector but might block another. It probably depends on the layout of your particular motherboard - but advance MBs that support multiple graphics cards (For SLI) have enough PCIE slots spaced accordingly to allow for 2, 3 or even 4 double wide cards linked together in SLI. I'm not sure what (if any) type of connector is blocked in the 2nd bay by the double wide card (maybe a regular PCI connector in some cases?). You should research your motherboard layout to see what is possible.
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Yes, I am using a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot for it. The card is kind of wide because of the fans, so make sure you have enough room in case.
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Although there is a rumor around that some folks have issues with PCIe2.0/3.0 cards on the PCIe 1.1 slots, I personally have not found that to be the case. I can't vouch for this particular card, but I have used other PCIe2.0/3.0 cards on a PCIe 1.1 slot with no issues. Since I made my earlier post about this card, I have found an even better card that runs w/o the need of a 6 pin power cable. The GTX 750/750 Ti. But be careful; some DO require the aux power cable. So search around. I bought this one: http://www.evga.com/articles/00821/#3753 It even plays Crysis3 at 1080p w/o any stutter at low/med settings. And looks great.
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This card fits in any PCI slot. Simply push it down into the slot and that's it. Some ones come without the driver's disk, so you need to download it from the Nvidia website, and install it to work with it. If you want, you can disable the motherboard display card, so work only with this one. It has 1Gb of ram memory, so it doesn't need to use yours. I don't know how works with overclocking, but I think that it will not be any problem, as you can personalize in the display's control panel.
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Absolutely no problem. However you do need to make sure that you have a motherboard that has this kind of pci-express slot/support though and if so your good to go just find out from the manufacturer if it does and if not then you know to ask what kind of card slot it does have and order one for that slot. I hope this helps you.
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Hi,I'm using this with 1 ssd and AMD E-350 (Zacate) based motherboard ASUS E35M1-M for HTPC use. Works without problems.Another ssd should not be a problem. Recomended.
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Howdy, yes, depending on the size of fans you use, it can take up one or two PCI slot spaces. It doesn't use the PCI connector, however. It takes one 3 or 4 pin connector per fan and comes with an adapter for each one. I upgraded the fans to nicer ones with more umph. I'd recommend that, as the fans that come with this are pretty unimpressive overall.
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Yes it will work in a pcie 8x or 16x slot The power plug is there because electric signals degrade over distance, and the plug is used to compensate for the distance. It's not required but I would recommend using it
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Hi, Actually you can connect a PCIe card into a slot that has at least the same number of channels it. In other words, a PCIe x1 card slot can operate in a x4, x8 and x16. The only drawback is that the process does not work on a reciprocal basis (eg, you can not connect a PCIe x16 card into a slot x1) due to physical limitations. When you insert a card in a PCIe slot, just use the number of channels that asks the card. According to the manufacturer Available PCI Express based 1.0a compliant slot.
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You can just use the two 8 pin PCIe power connectors. My GPU was clocked at 1080 GHz. I've read that there is another 290x Lightning, possibly distributed in Europe, that is clocked at 1050 GHz.