Z87 gd65 and tri sli

I recently upgraded to a haswell 4770k and got the msi z87 gd65 motherboard. It has 3 PCIe 3.0 lanes. What is strange is that some review sites say that it supports 3 way crossfire and only 2 way sli - how does that make sense? why would it work for AMD and not for NVIDIA? Wouldnt the nivida control panel display all 3 780's and allow me to enable SLI? I currently have 2 780's in my rig.
My mobo would run them at 8x4x4 - and I am gaming on a 30", so no suurrond, just high resolution. I have not purchased my 3rd 780 yet... I called MSI directly, and they said it 'should' work, but I was not too confident in the kids answer...
Anyone with any experience or expertise on this?
Thanks

Quote from: Evel Knievel on 09-July-13, 02:35:07
I have only seen them advertised as 2-way SLI & 3-way CrossFireX
newegg link:
http://promotions.newegg.com/MSI/13-2235/index.html
What he said ^^. Get a 2011 socket. These should all outperform haswell and will suit your SLI needs.
Thanks, i see that now - i did not purchase from newegg - rather, I went to MSI website and looked at specs, and also looked at advertising and specs at tiger direct, neither of which stated that.
I am not sure how credible any of it is anyway. For example:
MSI clearly states the XPower is 4 way Nvidia/AMD crossfire/sli ready - http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z87-XPOWER.html
Newegg says otherwise, stating 4 way crossfire, and 3 way sli - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130689&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleKWLess&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleKWLess-_-Motherboards%20-%20Intel-_-MSI-_-13130689&gclid=CMGBssjQoLgCFbTm7Aod2h4ARw
Newegg also has that promotion you linked above indicating 2 way sli, 3 way crossfire, but they also say Triple GPY support SLI/CFX at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130692
MSI tells me that 8x4x4x works in SLI on the z87 gd65 mobo, and then you guys tell me otherwise.
This is why I am confused :P I will get the XPOWER though to be safe...

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I can't find answer anywhere so i u could help me,this model HX318C10FBK2/16. In fact i would like to know if there would be any problem with memory with cash latency 10 or 11?

I checked the specs here http://www.kingston.com/datasheets/HX318C10FBK2_16.pdf
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Hello,
after looking for a few days for a solution to my problem which is reset freeze this is my last resort.
Recently upgraded CPU from 4770K to 4790K on MSI Z87-GD65 and I'm getting reset freeze.
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People say to update BIOS to 1.B (1.11) which is latest one but this did not solve the problem.
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Thx for reply, my rig now is
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and I can't test it anymore because I sold it.
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It does help knowing other people are getting the same hardware to work. Gives me hope.
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Quote from: xmad on 16-November-13, 02:00:25
If you need to raise the voltage to run at default speeds, the card is most likely defective. A vbios update sometimes helps, but it should work at default settings.
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Quote from: Nichrome on 08-December-13, 03:57:18
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Quote from: phantom24 on 19-October-13, 08:56:19
Hey man, thanks for replying. The first thing I tried, before overclocking, was to enable XMP from the UFEI. When i enabled it, the board would show that memory was OC'd to 2400MHz and bumped up to 1.65 voltage. This is all shown prior to rebooting. When I would reboot the computer however, the system would fail to boot and I would get the same error saying all "overclocking failed, reset to default settings". I believe that my ram is the cause for my inability to overclock. I found out that motherboard is not compatible with it at extreme speeds. The max speed I can get out of my ram is 2133MHz with no problem whatsoever in rebooting. This is without changing the voltage of the ram( keeping it at 1.5v) . If I change the ram voltage, I'm pretty sure it would fail to boot.
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