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i5 4690K SLI with an extra pcie card?

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Okey so I'm planning a new build and I'm kinda newish to this as it would be my first build, the problem I encountered is that I'm gonna be running an SLI of 970 on a Z97 board with a i5 4690K wich has only 16 pcie lanes. My question is, would it be possible to add an extra pcie card (ac wifi in this case) to my build mantaining the sli? I know nvidia requires at least x8, so with an sli all 16 pcie lanes of the processor would be filled. Tanks in advanced.

 

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Okey so I'm planning a new build and I'm kinda newish to this as it would be my first build, the problem I encountered is that I'm gonna be running an SLI of 970 on a Z97 board with a i5 4690K wich has only 16 pcie lanes. My question is, would it be possible to add an extra pcie card (ac wifi in this case) to my build mantaining the sli? I know nvidia requires at least x8, so with an sli all 16 pcie lanes of the processor would be filled. Tanks in advanced.

 

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Yes. The wifi card will most likely be routed through the PCH as I understand it.

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yes teh cpu lanes are the fast ones but there are slower lanes on the southbridge(pch)

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yes teh cpu lanes are the fast ones but there are slower lanes on the southbridge(pch)

would that affect wifi performance? I guess it shouldn't but just to be sure

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would that affect wifi performance? I guess it shouldn't but just to be sure

 

No, PCI-E 2.0 provided by the Z97 chipset will not bottleneck a WiFi card.

 

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