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. 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... » Read More 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. « Show Less
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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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Actually the aluminum of the cooler that you have to attach to the card is at back side of it.An you lost 1 slot previous a your video card slot, by other hand please note that you video card have a lot surface in contact to the actual cooler at the front of the card you will lost all that contact for it. In my case I'm running world of warcraft at maximums resolution and my card are 127.40º F and before the cooler was 154.40º
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I have a Sapphire R9 270X with my system and I did have problems in the beginning. At first, I thought it was the card, then I thought it would be the motherboard. So I flashed (updated) the BIOS from Gigabyte's website to the latest version. Works perfectly.EDIT: Nevermind. Saw you're reply. Hopefully this will help future customers have questions answered faster.
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I put a ASUS AMD A85X SATA 6.0 Gb-s 240-Pin DDR3 2400 Motherboards F2A85-M PRO in and it takes both size cards. Looks good too. Using it as a xbmc media box.
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While there is only one PCIe x16 slot (so only one graphics card can be added) I believe with certain amd cards it supports a form of crossfire between those cards and the build in gpu. I don't have that setup myself, but see http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/dual-graphics#faq
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Most newer motherboards have multiple PCI-E slots. The graphics card (generally) uses a x16 slot, but there's normally some 1x, 4x, and/or 8x slots on the board as well. This cards is a 1x, so it will fit in any of the above assuming your GPU cooler or something else isn't covering the slot.
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No because this motherboard doesn't have a PCI bridge it has 4 PCI express. You have to find one that goes x16 to x1 pci . This one is just the old PCI to x1.
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First, you realize that this APU allows for a crossfire configuration with some brands of AMD low profile GPUs correct? If you are already aware of that, then the next question is, does your motherboard actually support crossfire? If the answer is yes, then great, but keep in mind not all games are designed to run in crossfire mode and may actually suffer performance because of it. I actually just recommend one really high end GPU if you are really insistant on buying a GPU. I can't tell you what cards to crossfire because that is all a matter of opinion. I'd recommend you read reviews on NewEgg and then make a purchase based on that. Keep in mind this APU really rocks for the price it is at, I'd recommend trying it stand alone before buying a new GPU, it might save you some money.
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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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It has a PCI-E 16x slot. I think it's like revision 1.0 so it won't run very fast, but it should work. It has 4 RAM slots? I don't know about channels on this board, but I think i got it to run with two unmatched pairs of 2GB RAM, totaling 8GB. Here is the manual:
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That all depends on the case you use for this motherboard. Even though it is a M-ATX I would suggest an ATX case if you're planning on Crossfire or SLI because of second PCIe location for GPU, which it at the very bottom. The only M-ATX case that will allow use of the 2nd PCIe for GPU on this mobo is the Corsair 350 that I am aware of, it has 5 PCIe slots vs 4 which are found on most M-ATX cases. Besides that you can pretty much use any size GPU (single and double slot GPU). Be aware of limited room for cooling of using more than one GPU and if using anything other than R7 240 or R7 250 you will loose built in GPU advantage if planning on using an APU for this mobo. Since it is FM2 and FM2+ you can also use an Athlon CPU (same socket). If only using one GPU you can use any size to include a triple slot GPU. Hope this helps.
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When running in SLI the two 16X slots will run at 8X which is fine since it won't bottleneck even at that speed. However the third slot runs at 4X which would cause a timing problem as far as know. I never run Cross-Fire or SLI. I just buy the fastest single card and go that route due to micro- stuttering. Steven Level
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There are 9 expansion slots, so assuming that each card takes up 2 slots and your motherboard supports it, 4. Also note that because of the way the case is configured you will never have problems with card length either.
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hello, I'm not familiar with the motherboard model. I need more information as to whats not working. is it you can't get it to fit in the slot? or did you get it to fit but you have no video? or do you have video but everything looks big? Remember this is a PCI express card. if your motherboard has something other than a PCI express slot is not gonna fit.
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This card will work only if you have an open PCI slot. After looking up the specs on your motherboard, I don't think that you have any PCI slots. PCI express slots will not work. Hope this helps you.
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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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it works in an PCI 3.0 slot but not on all motherboards! Works on ASUS and Supermicro but I cannot make it work on an Intel motherboard. If you need low profile, there are no many choices. The performance is above 6 of the windows index (of 7.9 max)
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Yes. This GPU conforms the the PCIe specification which is backwards compatible with previous versions of the specification. This means that this GPU should be compatible with any motherboard that has x16 sized PCIe slots. PCIe 3.0 does have increased bandwidth over PCIe 2.0/2.1 and while the card is technically a PCIe 3.0 card, it will work just fine in the PCIe 2.0 x16 slots on your motherboard and there will be little to no perceptible performance loss.