X99S MPOWER and 780 Lightning 2-way SLI

Hi,
After more than 4 years I'm thinking of replacing my beloved i7 930 @4.2GHz and MSI X58A-GD65 with a i7 5820K and a MSI X99S MPOWER.
However, I currently own a MSI GTX 780 Lightning and it is my intention to get a second one to go SLI, so I am a bit concerned regarding the spacing of the PCI-E 3.0 slots on the latter motherboard.
According to the mainboard manual, tha I downloaded, the X99S MPOWER only supports 2-way SLI on the slots named PCI_E1 and PCI_E3 slots, which are spaced 2 slot apart. Given that a 780 Lightning basically covers 3 slots, the configuration recommended by the manual is unusable. What I would need instead is to use the slots named PCI_E1 and PCI_E5 in the manual, which are spaced 4 slots apart.
Would that be possible???
I cannot believe that MSI has designed an enthusiast-oriented board that cannot be used with a 2-way SLI configuration based on their flagship nVidia graphics card... so, please, tell me it's not true!
P.s. I have checked the X99S XPOWER manual and with that board I would be able to set up the 2-way SLI the way I need, but it costs almost £100 more than the X99S MPOWER...

The layout of X99S Mpower is indeed quite bad. If using recommended slots PCI_E1 and PCI_E3 for 2-way SLI thermal issues are a sure thing for the upper card if it fits at all as there is just one slot in between. Still you can use the 2nd card in PCI_E5 without a problem (if SLI bridge is long enough and can cover three slots). This will just change the lane setup what is irrelevant in your case. Your 5820K just offers 28 lanes anyway so 2nd card would be at x8 in any case. The only difference when running in PCI_E1 and PCI_E3 would be that first card stays at x16 in 2 way SLI but that's irrelevant if 2nd card is at x8 none the less. Using PCI_E1 and PCI_E5 both are running at X8. That's would be the maximum possible on a socket 1150 board and SLI works fine in this config. For the nvidia driver the populated slots are not relevant for enabling SLI, both slots just need to run at x8 minimum.

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Quote from: flobelix on 22-November-13, 02:03:09
Ok it is in legacy mode then. Waiting for your report. If it comes up on the igpu also check the bios version. Would be better than guessing.
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