Maximus xi hero sli spacing

[kidmo87]

Hello everyone, I got a maximus xi hero and wanted to know what the spacing is between these to pcie slots are. Looked on manual, but no luck. The slots I'm using are pciex16_1 and pciex16_2.
Thanks

 

[Joe C]

Generally, if your planning to use an upper grade video card, they normally take up two slots, So pciex1_3 and the M.2 slot will or may be blocked if you use a two slot video card in slot pciex16_2. With one video card in pciex16_1 your not going to block anything but that cmos battery.
Your not specifying what your using those slots for, but if the pcie hardware is only one slot wide then your o.k. Look at the specs of the pcie hardware your planning on using in those slots

 

[U.F.O.]

Get some calipers and measure?

 

[kidmo87]

Sorry for not specifying. I'm doing sli with two GPU's. I measured those two slots to 70 mm or 7 cm. Hopefully this helps, but I have a 4 slot bridge to that's to big, but took a picture to compare

 

[PP Mguire]

It's 3 slots, the board would come with an SLI bridge to use.

 

[Joe C]

looks like you need a 3 slot bridge?
you can check the specs for different bridges here
https://www.geforce.com/nvidia-sli-bridges
https://www.asus.com/Motherboard-Accessories/SLI-HB-BRIDGE2-WAY-M/
Although PP is correct, the board should have come with it's own bridge, if you misplaced that bridge you can get another one
https://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Cards-Accessories/ROG_Enthusiast_SLI_Bridge/

 

[kidmo87]

Thanks for all the help