I have the same issue. I am confused also. I'm not sure where they are getting 16x/16x when it is 8x/16x

PE6 – x8

rchapman45
No, I have one card in slot 1, an EVGA 780ti. The other card I want to use is a GT 610 for another display. According to the above slot breakdown I need to use slot 3, 4 or 6 while my 780ti is in slot one. I have tried the 610 in every alot and never get my 780 to run at 16x, it always drops to 8x. I dont carw if the 610 euns at 8x or even 4x, it is only running an accessory display, no gaming etc on it. I dis notice when I had the 610 in slot 4 it was at 16x and the 780 in slot 1 at 8x. I have the 6 pin plugged in at the lower left corner and in the bios 6 pin selected as +12vPCIe power supply

So just put the 610 in slot 1 and the 780 in slot 4?

Sajin
Have you guys tried putting the card that is in slot 4 into slots 3 & 2?

I have not tried that, and I can when I get home after work, but according to the manual it should work 16x/16x in slots 1 & 4.
 
I saw EVGA Tech Joey talking about this in another thread...  Where are you Joey?  Please help.

Exactly, it should work in 1 and 4 no matter what card is in either slot and both be at 16x...as in specs.

Thanks for your Help Jaeson.
 
I am using Bios 1.05 to determine the pci-e lane usage. I can take a screenshot when I get home if you need it.
 
Patience is my middle name. 

So here are some Bios pics...
 
You can see the 8x/16x gen 1.0 across all the shots...  I think I even tried to force the gen 2 and it still came up gen 1, but that might have been on Bios 1.02. I have 2 x 560ti 448 core Classifieds.
 





 

rchapman45
Something is jacked up. I cannot get 16x/16x either. I'm not trying to run SLI though, just installing a second card for an extra accessory display. I can care less what *x it runs as long as my 780ti in slot 1 runs 16x. The Z77 Sabertooth I had installed with all this hardware run both cards fine, 780ti at 16x in slot 1 and the 610 in like slot 4 at 4x. Maybe I should have went with an Asus ROG Z97 board...hhhmmm

I'm pretty satisfied with the board.  This seems to be the only real issue I have. It seems solid overall, although haven't tried any oc'ing...  Certainly they will come up with a fix.   It really doesn't bother me too much right now b/c the games I'm playing at the moment are no big deal for 1 of my 560's... but there will come a time I'm going to want to run sli and will want full throttle.
 
They are working on it. let's give them some time and see what they say to do.
 
Not to rub salt in the wound chapman, but i'm building a rig for my boss and I got him the Asus Z97 Maximus Hero...  And it is reeeaaal nice. He wanted a smaller rig.

I should be getting the board today for testing.In the mean time, can you guys check and see what your Firestrike scores are currently? If the lanes are running Gen 3 or Gen 2, there wouldn't be much difference, but if they are truly running at Gen 1 it should be noticeably lower than average for your cards. 

EVGATech_JaesonW
I should be getting the board today for testing.In the mean time, can you guys check and see what your Firestrike scores are currently? If the lanes are running Gen 3 or Gen 2, there wouldn't be much difference, but if they are truly running at Gen 1 it should be noticeably lower than average for your cards. 

Good Morning Jaeson...  If you are in Cali, you are at work really early.  Thanks for the help.
 
I can run firestrike, but it's probably going to be tomorrow (Thursday) evening before I get a chance.  I will say that I played some Diablo 3 last night and it seemed to run just as good as it did Z68 FTW (same gpu's). As well, I played a little simcity a couple of nights ago and it seemed to run fine as well.  I didn't notice any gpu performance difference b/w my Z68 & Z97, so it may be okay as far as the gen's are concerned. I will run firestrike asap and will also try to force Gen 2 again and see what happens. I'll let you know the results.
 
Also Jaeson, I posted a thread about another less crucial problem I am having.  If you get a chance, can you take a look at it and see if you know or can find anything else out about it. Thanks again.
http://forums.evga.com/EV...7-Classy-m2185675.aspx
 
 
 

EVGATech_JaesonW
Yep, I'm in the office here in Brea, and I get in early lol.
 
To be honest here, I'm suspecting this is all going to end up being a reporting error for the most part. As for slot 1 dropping to 8x with a card in slot 4, once I can confirm it is repeatable I'll pass it on to the Product Management team to see what they say.
 
zildjian75, I'll post in a moment on your other thread.

Thanks Jaeson.  It sounds like it may be a reporting error.  Hopefully you can replicate the behavior.  Thanks for the help. Keep us posted.

Hey Jason.  I ran the firestrike test twice.
 
1st time 5500...  Second time 6200.  Whacha think? 2 x 560 ti 448 core Classy's...

Tried forcing gen 2 in the bios w/ no luck. Still gen 1.

I just installed my new Z97 Classified with two GTX 780s (SLI) and a i7-4790k.  The cards are in PE1, PE2 and are reporting as x8/x16 also.   It does not have the gen issue, both report as gen3.      I can not move the cards to other slots to test because they are water cooled and I am lacking a longer spacer between the cards .

Good luck with that jchychot. According to the slot diagram 1 and 4 are the slots for dual SLI at 16x/16x