Motherboard question on Riser Compatibility

[flip4flop]

I have a friend of mine who is looking to build his first rig.  He is looking to use the MSI Enthusiastic Gaming Intel Z270 M7 http://amzn.to/2Dj4tWU to build a 6 card rig.  He wants to run them all on risers on an open air frame.  I have only ever built rigs using the PCIe slots but this board has 3 and 3.  Can he plug risers into the full slots? If so is there something in the BIOS he needs to change to work properly?

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[leonix007]

I have a friend of mine who is looking to build his first rig.  He is looking to use the MSI Enthusiastic Gaming Intel Z270 M7 http://amzn.to/2Dj4tWU to build a 6 card rig.

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Can he plug risers into the full slots?

Yes, this is possible, just be careful not to plug the risers in reverse, you might end up frying the board or worst your  GPU.

If so is there something in the BIOS he needs to change to work properly?

Basically the 4g decoding and the Bios set to gen 1 are the basics, however try not to touch them at first and install your GPU's they might work flawlessly without any configs, less headache.

[flip4flop]

Perfect thanks I am looking forward to helping him put this one together.

[[YAZ]]

All of my rig using a riser, even when all PCIe socket is 16x. First, GPU's dimensions will not let us put it side by side. 2nd, based on my friend experience that plugs his GPU's directly to board, it makes PCIe 16x socket melted. In my opinion, whatever your PCIe socket, 1x, 4x, 8x or 16x use a powered riser for safer.