Alienware Area 51 R2 3 way SLI

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X in 4-Way CrossFire at 11,520 x 2160 (Triple 4K) 

Hi JKTRRT‌,

With the Nvidia 10 series, only dual card is supported. This is strictly related to the design of the card and has nothing to do with the computer. So, even if the computer supports 3 way SLI, Nvidia does not. If you need more information about this, you can contact NVIDIA directly.

Do you think Nvidia will ever support 3 and 4 way SLI again?

I think its design, power and performance related. A single 1080TI is faster than GTX980 SLI.  It also uses as much power as 2 980's.  So they don't want to burn up systems by trying 3 way 1080TI based on the performance and power profile.

I have 2 way SLI TITAN Xp's could I use the 3rd slot for a PHYSIS Card?

the Amplifier has only 4 Lanes, you know that, right?

also, i'm curious, are the Cards the new 2017 Titans?

Yes 4 lanes instead of 16 the card is a new TITAN Xp little p

I have 3 Titan Xp's was kinda hoping to find a way to fill that 3rd graphic

card slot and make it work. Maybe one day 3 and 4 way SLI will be supported

again. I will take the Titan Xp and put in my graphic amplifier to use with

Alienware 17 R4 laptop.

PhysX

hasn't been a separate card for a long time.  Nvidia adds this as a software feature for the latest cards and drivers.

There are also

PhysX Plug-In for 3ds Max

PhysX Plug-In for Autodesk Maya

i'd like to see the Benchmark Results with AGA and the Titan if you don't mind. could you pleas Post one later?

Sure. It should benchmark good? I know the 4 lanes is not the best. Do you think 3 and 4 way SLI is dead forever? I will most likely use the 3rd slot on my Alienware Area 51 R2 for a 1 TB Samsung Pro M.2 mounted in a Aquacomputer M.2 PCIE adapter.

hard to tell without my Crystal Ball. my Guess would be a No.
current Titan can run games at 4K without SLI. Volta GPUs are rumored to be even faster which makes 4K @ 144 Hz Gaming possible. and if not then Dual SLI will be enough for sure. Tripple or Quad SLI will be only useful if you want to go with Tripple 4K @ 144 Hz Monitors. it will cost around 10000$ and not everyone is willing to pay that. so the Market is small. besides, SLI is not as Popular as it was few Years ago. People like stronger Single Cards instead nowerdays.

installing an M2 SSD is a great Idea. take a look at this Thread here:

Area 51 R2: Where is the M.2 slot on the motherboard? 

That's the same setup I have the 960 Pro with the Aquacomputer PCIE Adapter

with the heat sink. It is worth using for my boot drive? It is a shame that

Dell didn't put a better motherboard in the system. The MSI Godlike Gaming

motherboard would really compliment my system.

my A51 Boot Time is Average due to long Initialisation Process. the Area 51 lags BIOS Fast Boot feature. additionally i disabled Windows Fast Boot because  it kept messing with Background Processes during Shutdown

but you should of course install Windows on your M.2 Drive. the Reasons are obvious i think.

i agree. better Motherboard would be nice. i really really really hope that the Area 51 x266 Board turns out to be good.

Do you think it is going to be possible to swap our X99 motherboard for the

Alienware Area 51 R4 X299 motherboard?