Water cooling case

**DJ Ms. White** · 04-12-12, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

It sounds to me like you'd be better off getting a motherboard with a better layout that allows for some spacing between your graphics card and PhysX/Sound cards. Water cooling is a huge investment.

There aren't any with PCIe 3.0 (nothing above reg ATX even), and there's really nothing better layout wise than the board I already have for a PCIe 2.0 board.

**rush2049** · 04-18-12, 07:44 AM

No graphics cards even get close to bumbing against the PCIe 2.0 x16 bandwidth limit (except the 590 and other dual cards).... PCIe 3.0 x16 is not worth paying more to support at this point..... (or for the next 1-2 years either)

**DJ Ms. White** · 04-19-12, 01:19 PM

I thought the 6xx series needed 3.0? If I go dual card, it'd be a x8 x8 setup. I am considering going for a 690 or whatever they'll call the dual card though.

**RhysJD3** · 04-19-12, 05:35 PM

We need PCI-E 3.0 working on X79 chipset NVIDIA! - NVIDIA Forums

You're talking some crazy resolutions and4 cards to max it out. However, there's some numbers below using SLI and even those benefit from PCI 3.0. I'm suspecting there's something else happening that's improving performance with the new chipset.