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If you board does not support sli then you will have a performance drop with those cards but that does not mean that it wont work. I think the slot is broken. Does the fan spins on the videocard in slot 2??

Sh4dowking

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Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 ----- Intel Core i7 2700K ----- GTX 680 Twinn Frozer III ----- NVIDIA Geforce GT 520 1x Edition

I would not buy a second card when my board doesn't support SLI. My advice would be to sell your old 560, return the second 560 and buy a 670/680 so you can run surround of of one card.

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Also a good choice to do and then you have always the space to upgrade to another 670/680 for SLI if the 670/680 gets to weak.

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Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 ----- Intel Core i7 2700K ----- GTX 680 Twinn Frozer III ----- NVIDIA Geforce GT 520 1x Edition

Also a good choice to do and then you have always the space to upgrade to another 670/680 for SLI if the 670/680 gets to weak.

Than he would have to also upgrade his board since it doesn't support SLI...

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Philips BDM4065UC(3840x2160) Acer Z35(2560x1080@200hz); 980 Ti Hybrid @stock ; 6700K 4.6ghz (1.35v)/D15; 16GB 3200mhz; Asus Maximus Ranger VIII; AX860; 1TB 960 EVO; 750GB 840 EVO; Teufel Concept D 500; Sennheiser HD6XX; Windows 10 (latest build)

Yep, I realize that I will loose a bit of performance.
Yep, both fans spin, but they are powered directly from the PSU.

The 670 & 680 are out of my price range at the moment.
And I'm not sure if they will fit inside the case

I just tried another card in the second slot (GT430) still nothing.

Cheers
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I searched your mobo in google and find this site and i looked into your specifications of your mobo and find this:

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16) (Note 5)
(The PCIEX16 slot conforms to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x1 (PCIEX4_X1)
2 x PCI slots

As you can see your second gpu slot is a x16 slot but is only running at x1. So this means that this slot isn't intended for your GPU. You really need a new mobo that got 2 x16 slots or (1 x16 and 1 x8 slot) and also with SLI support.

I also searched the net for you for a good motherboard and i only found this one. But this one only supports i5/i7 cpu's.

Its really hard to find a mobo thats supports sli, LGA 1156 and i3 CPU and also cheap.

I should save some money and buy a LGA 1155 motherboard thats support SLI and a new i5 or i7 CPU.

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Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 ----- Intel Core i7 2700K ----- GTX 680 Twinn Frozer III ----- NVIDIA Geforce GT 520 1x Edition

You really need a new mobo that got 2 x16 slots or (1 x16 and 1 x8 slot) and also with SLI support.

Won't happen with a i3 ! intel's 1155, or 1156 have a maximum of 16 PCI-E Lanes. so maximum you can get is 2* 8x, but with 1155 you have PCI-E 3.0 so 2*8x will be enough.
Only 1337 or 2011 do have 40x PCI-E lanes
IIRC AMD's FX 990 chipset supports 40 PCI-E Lanes.

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We gonna send it to outa space!

Thanks guys,
we came to the same solution late yesterday.
This board just wont do the job.

Unfortunately I don't have the cash at this stage to do a full upgrade at this stage.

Once again, thank you for your help

Cheers
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