Recent content by ItsTimaiFool

Well there seems to have been a miscommunication because now we're saying the same thing. Sorry about that. Glad we could come to an agreement, I guess.

Alright then once again I don't understand. I'm looking at an MSI Z170A Gaming M5, which has the LGA1151 socket of 6th-generation intel CPUs, all of which have only 16 PCIe lanes. (source) The motherboard will support dual graphics cards in SLI, which, by NVIDIA's specifications of SLI...

In case anyone else is wondering the same thing, I've done some research, and here's what I found: The CPU has 16 PCIe lanes, which are used pretty much exclusively for the graphics card(s). A given motherboard might have some PCIe slots hardwired to the CPU. (The specific motherboard I'm...

I guess that's part of my problem: I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you saying that the motherboard can essentially add more PCIe lanes, so I'm not just limited to the 16 of the CPU? I should specify that I've never actually built a computer before, so this is all new to me.

I am currently tossing around the idea of building a computer to run VR games. (I'd probably game in Windows and do everything else in Mac, but that's not important) I plan on getting a GTX 1080 once it's available (if it works with OSX). I want to make the computer at least a little bit...