ASUS P6X58-E_Pro & Modern Nvidia cards???
Can my mother board handle any sort of VR-Ready Graphics card? I wanted to get a TitanX series, but i was told those are PCIe3? And that the ports displayed in this image, don't display a PCIe3 port? my motherboard diagram: https://data2.manualslib.com//pdf2/42/4151/415078-asus/images/p6x58e_pro_user_manual_22_bg.jpg The Rig: MotherBoard: ASUS E6356_P6X58-E_Pro ----------- 3 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (at x16/x8/x8 or x16/x16/x1 mode) ----------- 1 x PCI Express x1 slot ----------- 2 x PCI slots Operating System: Win7Ult_x64 SP1 Eng Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.5GHz [6core 12CPUs] Monitor: Dell S2716DGR 27" 2560x1440 144hz with G-sync. GPU: ATI Radeon 6850 HD GPU (Not n'vidia so doesn't do g-sync) 80hz limit, inadequate.. needs to change.. Power: 1100w
Can my mother board handle any sort of VR-Ready Graphics card? I wanted to get a TitanX series, but i was told those are PCIe3? And that the ports displayed in this image, don't display a PCIe3 port?

my motherboard diagram: https://data2.manualslib.com//pdf2/42/4151/415078-asus/images/p6x58e_pro_user_manual_22_bg.jpg


The Rig:
MotherBoard: ASUS E6356_P6X58-E_Pro
----------- 3 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (at x16/x8/x8 or x16/x16/x1 mode)
----------- 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
----------- 2 x PCI slots


Operating System: Win7Ult_x64 SP1 Eng

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.5GHz [6core 12CPUs]


Monitor: Dell S2716DGR 27" 2560x1440 144hz with G-sync.

GPU: ATI Radeon 6850 HD GPU (Not n'vidia so doesn't do g-sync) 80hz limit, inadequate.. needs to change..

Power: 1100w

#1
Posted 12/24/2016 12:35 PM   
Would your rig work with VR games, I couldn't say, but the TitanX is backwords compatible with PCIe 2.0. More than likely, your GPU will bottleneck you and VR requires constant frame rates without dropouts. It would however work well with 3D Vision on your Dell monitor. Note that G-Sync is turned off when 3D Vision is activated. So buy yourself a 3D Vision kit and enjoy the awesomeness stereoscopic gameplay. You'll need to dial down the settings in some games. But 2D on Ultra settings is nowhere as enjoyable as 3D on lower settings when needed.
Would your rig work with VR games, I couldn't say, but the TitanX is backwords compatible with PCIe 2.0.

More than likely, your GPU will bottleneck you and VR requires constant frame rates without dropouts.

It would however work well with 3D Vision on your Dell monitor. Note that G-Sync is turned off when 3D Vision is activated.

So buy yourself a 3D Vision kit and enjoy the awesomeness stereoscopic gameplay. You'll need to dial down the settings in some games. But 2D on Ultra settings is nowhere as enjoyable as 3D on lower settings when needed.

#2
Posted 12/24/2016 07:57 PM   
Your mobo is just fine (similar to mine) and I am planning get 1080ti as soon as it become available. [url]http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/pci-express-3-0-vs-2-0-gaming-performance-gain/5/[/url]
Your mobo is just fine (similar to mine) and I am planning get 1080ti as soon as it become available.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/pci-express-3-0-vs-2-0-gaming-performance-gain/5/

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#3
Posted 12/25/2016 02:05 AM   
back again after a super long time! i got a SeaHawk gtx 1080 hd in there now. had to do some rotory-tool work to make it fit. >.> its been much better then what i used to use. however, im wondering now if there are any 16gb dimms that will work with my MotherBoard "ASUS E6356_P6X58-E_Pro" id like to move up from 48gb to 96gb. yes i do use most of my ram.. i use a ram-drive for allllllllllll things that would otherwise be thrashy. Swap file, hibernation file, all internet browser cashe, zipfile cashe, game emulators themselves, video-buffering. p2p file propagation, part-file allocation. stuff that would wrote to a SSD or a HDD a ton of times only to resemble when done into a solid file anyway. Its extremely awesome really! but i only devote 10gb to doing such as drive Z: right now. and id like to increase my ram to 96GB so i can move bigger files about. my board has 6 slots for ram. are there 16gb dims that will work for the ASUS E6356_P6X58-E_Pro ? im a win7x64Ult user, with a i7 990x processor.
back again after a super long time! i got a SeaHawk gtx 1080 hd in there now. had to do some rotory-tool work to make it fit. >.> its been much better then what i used to use.

however, im wondering now if there are any 16gb dimms that will work with my MotherBoard "ASUS E6356_P6X58-E_Pro" id like to move up from 48gb to 96gb.

yes i do use most of my ram.. i use a ram-drive for allllllllllll things that would otherwise be thrashy. Swap file, hibernation file, all internet browser cashe, zipfile cashe, game emulators themselves, video-buffering. p2p file propagation, part-file allocation. stuff that would wrote to a SSD or a HDD a ton of times only to resemble when done into a solid file anyway. Its extremely awesome really! but i only devote 10gb to doing such as drive Z: right now. and id like to increase my ram to 96GB so i can move bigger files about.

my board has 6 slots for ram. are there 16gb dims that will work for the ASUS E6356_P6X58-E_Pro ?
im a win7x64Ult user, with a i7 990x processor.

#4
Posted 06/21/2018 10:07 AM   
Well Sorry to report but 48GB is MAX for your board according to the manual.. if you want more memory you may need to upgrade to a new system. How is your 3D monitor working out??
Well Sorry to report but 48GB is MAX for your board according to the manual.. if you want more memory you may need to upgrade to a new system.


How is your 3D monitor working out??

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#5
Posted 06/22/2018 07:45 AM   
It seems a bit strange your setup. Swapfile moves data between drive and ram and with a lot of memory there should be little need to write memory pages to swapfile. Hibernation file contains allows hibernation by writing the most important stuff back to drive so you can shut down the memory completely and then quickly page back to return from hibernation. 48GB is still larger than my 32GB and my 3,5 year old system can't handle 64GB. Moving to 96GB ram seems nice but not all motherboard platforms support it as far as I can tell.
It seems a bit strange your setup.

Swapfile moves data between drive and ram and with a lot of memory there should be little need to write memory pages to swapfile. Hibernation file contains allows hibernation by writing the most important stuff back to drive so you can shut down the memory completely and then quickly page back to return from hibernation.

48GB is still larger than my 32GB and my 3,5 year old system can't handle 64GB. Moving to 96GB ram seems nice but not all motherboard platforms support it as far as I can tell.

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#6
Posted 06/22/2018 09:44 AM   
ty for the info Th3_N3philim I think you've helped me out on another forum this year too heh! my manual indicated the 48gb max as well, but in the past and with bios updates, I've seen systems take memory dimms > the printed manual knew of at the time of printing. The disparity between manual and actual capacity is common. so that's why i was hoping for any knowledge beyond it. I've actually asked over at linus tech tips too but they haven't gotten back to me. they do stuff like this test all the time. know anywhere else i should ask? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Flugen, As far as i understood it, ram is still powered in hybernate mode. now i do have a "RAM-Dump drive to a actual hard drive" on shutdown and "load RAM-Drive with HDD RAM-Dump on startup" using robocopy. it does save on some re-downloading of cashed pages and such. but lets me control where i send those enormous read-write piles to. I've got them sending to a inteli-write based WD drive that likes to spin at 4000 rpm until used, then spins up to 7200 until it can idle for 10 min. Yay custom controller board tweeks! it also has a power-delayed startup cable with capacitance. So it doesn't tax the power supply too much at startup, important as I've 12 HDD's and 3 SSD's attached, 2 power hungry graphics cards, and 9 usb devices. (not that the SSD's use much draw.) the power supply is only 1100w which is sufficient but not worth pushing to the max either on per-startup. longevity saves me $ for better future toys. :)
ty for the info Th3_N3philim

I think you've helped me out on another forum this year too heh!

my manual indicated the 48gb max as well, but in the past and with bios updates, I've seen systems take memory dimms > the printed manual knew of at the time of printing.

The disparity between manual and actual capacity is common. so that's why i was hoping for any knowledge beyond it.

I've actually asked over at linus tech tips too but they haven't gotten back to me. they do stuff like this test all the time. know anywhere else i should ask?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To Flugen,

As far as i understood it, ram is still powered in hybernate mode.
now i do have a "RAM-Dump drive to a actual hard drive" on shutdown
and "load RAM-Drive with HDD RAM-Dump on startup" using robocopy.

it does save on some re-downloading of cashed pages and such. but lets me control where i send those enormous read-write piles to. I've got them sending to a inteli-write based WD drive that likes to spin at 4000 rpm until used, then spins up to 7200 until it can idle for 10 min.
Yay custom controller board tweeks! it also has a power-delayed startup cable with capacitance. So it doesn't tax the power supply too much at startup, important as I've 12 HDD's and 3 SSD's attached, 2 power hungry graphics cards, and 9 usb devices. (not that the SSD's use much draw.) the power supply is only 1100w which is sufficient but not worth pushing to the max either on per-startup. longevity saves me $ for better future toys. :)

#7
Posted 06/22/2018 12:50 PM   
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