kapone32 This is why I like ATX; I can't speak for Nvidia but for all the people that don't get it or listen to the industry standard to say that crossfire is dead are not looking at the picture properly. Right now you can get AMD Power Color RX 570 4gb for 189 Canadian or the Rx 570 8GB for 199. 2 of those would be 379 or 399 for the 8GB variant. That is less than a 1070, 1080, Vega 56 or 64 in Canada. You can actually find RX 580 cards for that price. There are currently over 300 games that support crossfire including but not limited to older games like Kingdoms of Amulaur, Crysis 1,2 or 3 and Total War Rome 2. There is the fact though that new games like Total War Warhammer 2, Strange Brigade, Project Cars 2 and Far Cry 5 also have full crossfire support profiles. The scaling in all games that support crossfire is as high as 95% from what I have seen. In terms of this specific board, my biggest want for Ryzen is more PCI E lanes so that we can run NVME drives in RAID 0. It is my thought process that 2 NVME drives in RAID 0 used as the paging file would see a marked improvement in FPS as currently I see up to 25000MB of page file use when gaming. And even though it is on 2 SSDs in RAID 0 1000Mb/s reads to not compare to 6000Mb/s for 2 NVME drives in RAID 0. I know that the Asus Crosshair 6 has native NVME RAID support but I would much rather see it on an actual PCIe bus. The Asus HYper M2 card sells for $67 Canadian and can hold up to 4 NVME drives.

I dont mean dead dead, but support for recent game is minimal at best, sure it USED to work upward to double your performances back in the day and IF the game you pick actually has Xfire/SLI support then great for you, now:Recent AMD board Chipsets even including latest 470x supports only a limited amount of PCIe lanes, like at best 2 GPU in 8x/8x configuration and an M2 in 4x ... second one is 1x if you put a second.and thats the best consumer chipset for Ryzen, above that you need to go Threadripper and the jump isn't cheap.Intel supports way more PCIE right off the bat, so going either sli/xfire is fine if you wish to do so, i just wouln't go Intel in 2019 when Ryzen2 is coming and will put Intel performance to shame.the general problem is that 90%+ of game ARE NOT optimized for either multi GPU and you gain next to nothing, or at worse game wont work with multiGPU activated making a whole card (or more) absolutely useless, but then when game dont support it and give 5-10% its also a waste of money.From the recent 4 games you mentioned i only played 1 (warhammer 2) but FC5 was actually, from what i read, the one best optimized for AMD (better multi thread perf on Threadripper and exceptionnal multi gpu support)The issue Being that games NEED to be dev/optimized for xfire or SLI, what Nvidia did is going NVlink with plug your 2 gpu together and will work on ANYTHING without needing developer to do anything to make it work (which in my world is superior)for a full analysis on recent SLI/Xfire performances :Check benchmarks and conclusion, its like i said pretty much dead in 2018 to do any SLI/Xfire.in regard to your comment on pcie lane for ssd, FPS is so lightly tied to any SSD performance, at best it speeds up loading, but you can play the same game on same rig from either SSD or HDD and ingame performance are similar (except loadings)AMD has its own thing called storeMI that basically put all the existing storage together and use the Fastest of the lot to do transfer (think cache) which lets you buy maybe 1 expensive good m2 and bunch of either cheap SSD with high storage or even HDD and get crazy good performances overall (you can check some benchmark on that)It will speed up Game loading but i mean the performance impact on FPS must be less than 5% unless you game streams like crazy.you also really dont need Pagefile.sys, its one of the first thing i deactivate on fresh install with Hibernation since i use SSD, If your pagesys is 25GB in auto mode i suppose you either have 16 or 32GB or actual DDR.(for reference Pagefile is used by windows as equivalent to memory, except memory runs so much faster than hdd/sdd so pagefile is crap cache system it was only really useful when the average was 4-8Gb of memory, so you basically want high amoung 16+gb of memory and completly deactivate that to actually speed up the system, Windows is built in a way that the Higher amount of memory you have the more will be used to pre-cache your daily apps to speed everything), also it hurts SSD life expectancy to leave it on just so you know, and SSD run faster the less full they are, so you really want to avoid unnecessary large usage of GB on it.Anyway, i really want Ryzen 2 to have more PCI (either through CPU or Chipset) cause i really really want to build a 2x2080ti rig and if Ryzen can't do it in 16/16x i won't pick an intel just for that so i'll just do a single GPU rig.