X99S GAMING 9 AC - 3-WAY SLI BRIDGE...?

Hello everyone,
I got this mainboard and installed 3 titan cards in the pci slots 1, 2 & 4... To get this to work in sli, I use my old asus 3-way sli bridge with 6 connection points. This is not the best solution since its running on 8x-8x-8x on the pci buss... Iwe asked msi for help because in the manual it says I can run 16x-16x-8x if i put the 3 titans in slot 1, 4 & 5... Now they have sent me 4 "single wide-sli" bridges that I can put on... Since I use 3 cards will only be needing 3 of these bridges... But can anyone please post an image how to do this...? Iwe had several mainboards before, and the sli bridges for 3 and 4-way sli has allways been bundled with the mainboard. I remember my evga x58 mainboard had 2 different 3-way "doube wide-sli" bridges and 1 4-way bridge included for different innstallations of the graphic cards...
If you see on page 12 in this evga document, the sli bridges i thought was bundled with the msi mainboard are shown, and the long 3-way bridge looks like the one I thought msi was going to send me: Ok, link did not work...
Try google 141-bl-e759.pdf

Quote from: jpouza on 31-October-14, 17:40:59
Thor, I am setting up a 980 3 way SLI with the 5930k...do you managed to get the cards working at slots PCIE 1,4 e 5 at full speed (16x,16x,8x) with the crossed bridge? It reaches slot 1 to slot 5 crossing? Is that it?
Or you get full pcie speeds with slots 1,2 and 4? What solved the problem? Can you post an image of the cards in the slots?
Thanks!
Hi jpouza, Im not allowed to post a link to an image of my sli bridges on this forum, but I can describe it:
Im using 3 sli bridges from msi that is 13.8cm long each...
I have the cards in slot 1, 4 and 5, this is running at 16x16x8x... This is the best as you know (40Lanes)...
I have tried before 1,2 and 4 @ 8x8x8x, and this gives a lower result in benchmarks...
One display card have 2 plugs, lets call them 1 and 2 (counting from the left to the right)... The " " sign represents the pci slots:
First: Connect one bridge between display card "1" plug 1 and display card "4" plug 1...
Second: Connect one bridge between display card "4" plug 2 and display card "5" plug 2...
Last: Connect one bridge between display card "5" plug 1 and display card "1" plug 2...
This last bridge is a little tricky because its in my opinion just a little to short, but you can put it on carefully...
The Blue image earlier in this post shows the 8x8x8x setup, since the distance between the cards are equal...
In the 16x16x8x the connections are the same, but you need longer sli bridges because you use pci slot 1, 4 & 5...
Hope this helps you...

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