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Can an MSI Z370 Gaming Plus motherboard support two NVIDIA cards for more IRAY rendering power?
Flortale
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I'm thinking about getting an MSI Z370 gaming plus motherboard and i7-8700k processor.
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z370-GAMING-PLUS/Specification
- I'm going to use my Nvidia GTX 980 4gb.
- Later on I'm going to buy a Nvidia GTX 1080 8gb mem.
Does this motherboard support two nvidia cards?
Will both cards get detected by DAZ Studio for more iray rendering power?
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It has two pcie 3.0 16x slots, which are the size needed for GPUs, so yes, and they look to be far enough apart as they are intended for AMD Crossfire. Iray will detect all Iray compatible cards, and should work no problem. This board does not support Nvidia SLI, but Iray does not use SLI, in fact SLI makes Iray perform a little slower. I just wanted you to be aware of that. SLI only works with 2 of the same cards anyway (like two 1080s.)
Make sure your power supply can handle both cards, and you may want to look at your case because 2 cards will run hotter than 1. It is wise to make sure your case has good airflow. If its some left over HP or Dell case, probably not.
As long as these things are in line, you are good to go.
The motherboard supports GTX 980s and GTX 1080s plus Multi-GPUs, as long as you allocate both cards for rendering in the DS iRay panel there should be no issues, that said, my newest motherboard is a GA-Z170X so l'm not speaking from personal experience.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that processor only supports 16 PCI Express lanes
You're still ok running both GPU as 8x/8x, but if you have any more PCI cards installed, it further reduces the lanes available.
Not an issue for rendering.
Lack of SLI might be an issue for you as the 20 series cards need it for sharing GPU RAM; possible that other aspects benefit, but months after launch, no one knows. I'd keep looking; then again, I'd go AMD and save some cash unless you're heavily into gaming.
Best course of action; wait and see what AMD's new CPUs offer when released in a couple of months.