Quote Originally Posted by Silver Bullet View Post
Hey all,

Having trouble with getting CF setup and working. I know both cards work (by themselves) but it would seem the way I have them in the board that CF isn't recognized. Note also on boot that the 2nd (bottom card) runs with 100% fan and won't spin down on boot or when I get into windows.

PCI-E Setup:

1st - 6970
2nd - empty
3rd - Highpoint RR3510
4th - empty
5th - 6970

I was trying to stay away from having the 2nd 6970 right below the RR3510 to save a little heat and I figured it didn't matter, but it would seem it does? Or is my board just broken . Thoughts/solution be great. TIA
I have a similar setup: 2 VCs and a raid card (LSI 9260-8i). If you have SSDs on raid, you'll want the raid card either in slot 1 or 4 as these don't use the NF200 which will bottleneck tall sequentials due to latency. Wouldn't go more than 800MBps in my ATTO tests on the MivE and UD7--with non-NF200 lanes, it could go to 1600MBps (1GB test, raid cache is 512MB).

However, with 2 VCs on slots 1 and 5, putting the raid card on slot 4 didn't work for me as it couldn't detect the card--I didn't bother booting to see if the VCs will work on SLI. Have not tried to put the raid card on slot 3 as I knew I wouldn't like the result even if it worked. So I ended up with the raid card on 1 and the VCs on the nf200 lanes 3 and 5 as seen here:



The VCs are indeed crowded in there but I plan to watercool them anyway so it works out for me.

On another note, 8GB hypers on tap: