Phil you're awesome!
I have some of those motherboards on the way, also I have a z170 with 4 PICEx16 - spacing is going to be tight for a 4 card 1080TI no riser but I'm going to run it just to see how long it can go. Should get here monday.
My new bottleneck - these stupid Corsair 750's only have 2... TWO! 4+4/6+1 power ports. The Rosewill 850w you suggested does have 4 PCIE power lines, so I just need to get some more cables that have 2 sets of 6+2's in them, I ran out. I upgraded a dozen 1070's to 1080Ti's today - hardware always takes longer than you expect. Was expecting to unscrew, unplug, swap and be done. The power cords threw me for a huge loop.
I was thinking about running power from my 1500w EVGA but I actually don't have long enough cables for that either.
So back to the drawing board.
the gigabyte board will do 3 with no risers. 1080ti 1080 ti 1070 mini
here are two builds on the biostar z170
3 with no risers 1080ti 1080 ti 1070
http://i.imgur.com/dg0TGrW.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/0YKAiAO.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/Vyc6l9f.jpgPhil, appreciate all the effort and time you put in to share your knowledge.
Almost pulling the trigger on my first build, shopping list if you can see if I am forgetting anything:
-2x MSI 1080ti FE
-1x Zotac 1070 Mini I have switched this out to this
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137092-1x EVGA 850w Gold
-1x Gigabyte GA-Z270P
-1x Intel G4400 Skylake
-1x Crucial 4GB DDR Ram
-1x ADATA 128GB SSD
Puts the tab around $2.1k from Newegg, little more than your parts list from another thread where you were at 1950 or so.
note the msi aero is shorter then the zotac I switched to it.
Any suggestion for which 1080ti to go if they are all same priced?
the blower style msi aero is better then the founder edition
if you get a deal on the evga founder edition they have top notch rma service.
the gigabyte z270 can do add-ons with risers
I ran as many as five so far. 3 with the slots and 2 with risers.
I just two 15 dollar coupons from ebay today
so I grabbed
http://i.imgur.com/orNyrvP.pngtwo accounts one is mine one is the wifes
the mobo can do 3 riser less and in the winter I can add cards
http://i.imgur.com/In7wZBm.pngthis is a 200 dollar cpu for 130 six months to pay it. no payments or interest
It can be sold back for 150 easy on ebay and will not drop in price for around 2 years.
http://i.imgur.com/LkRcnYC.pngThanks for the coupon.
My question now is, how many more cards will I be able to add via risers with this PSU? I would like to add up 2 or 3 more in the future. Also, do you have any other 1070 models you would suggest for risers since the space wouldnt be a issue for those?
