I have the MSI FX890-GD70 and I would not recommend to use more than 2 GPUs inside a normally ventilated PC Case. I have 3x5830 and currently am running only two of them.
I'm using the MSI FX890-GD70 too, with 4x5850, no extenders, in a Coolermaster HAF-X. The 3 bottom cards are overclocked to 900/300, the top one only to 820/300 because of cooling problems... But this way, they run at 74°C (top card), 70°C (2 cards in the middle) and 57°C (bottom card) doing about 1.3GHash/sec. All I did was spacing the cards using some plastic parts and installing one optional 120mm-fan inside the case, blowing directly towards the cards. Power usage is about 670W.