FinalCPU

I think I figured it out, since the board adjusts for the dual GPU setup and is sending 16 lanes to the first graphics card because that last slot is only on the chipset. I wonder if I can manually set it to 8X bandwidth to force it to give bandwidth to the other slots. I'll update my BIOS to 22 from F21 and test some more.

I'm trying to get my 1X PCIe Gigabyte wifi card to work in a 16X slot wired for 8X, but it doesn't function in any configuration I try and have found no special settings in the BIOS. EDIT: After doing some tests and checking GPU-Z to see the interface type, I noticed that the top slot was indeed running at 8x bandwidth. This means that the motherboard is detecting the wireless card and sending bandwidth to it, but the card itself is only sending power to the bluetooth device (required with usb header to work). To confirm this, I tested the card in all of the slots with and without the USB cable, noting the wifi works in all but the slot I want it to work in and bluetooth can function in that slot without wifi capabilities. I thought that maybe it was a lack of PCIe lanes (16 provided by the CPU) however, given that the top slot graphics card used 8, the bottom slot used 4 from the chipset and I only have 3 SATA 6gb/s drives, I should have had at least 2 to spare for a wireless card. Unfortunately, this means my initial hypothesis that the top slot occupied with a graphics card wasn't detecting the wireless card in the 8x slot and not providing it bandwidth is false. This seems to be due to some other issue, but I have no other hardware to swap in and test. In this situation it would've been best to get a full ATX motherboard, one with a built in wireless solution or, if absolutely necessary, getting a riser cable (TESTED: Does Work) for one of the graphics cards to open up a slot one was covering. System: Gigabyte Z170MX - Gaming 5 M-Atx motherboard BIOS F21 Edit: Updated to F22 XFX RX480 RS EVGA GTX 960 SC EVGA 600B PSU Gigabyte Bluetooth dual band /ac wireless card rev 4.2 Intel i5 6600k Kinston boot SSD, WD 1T 7200 rpm HDD Windows Home 64bit Perusing the manual, I didn't find any special rules about disabled PCIe slots, and yet that 8X slot works with both of my graphics cards but not for the 1X wifi card. The pictures with the small network window are configurations that didn't detect the wifi card. Here are the configuration examples: I'd appreciate any help to resolve this, or an explanation as to why the wifi doesn't work while the bluetooth does in that particular slot.

True, and as underpowered as the reference designed cooler may be, I personally find it pretty neat looking.

Hiya, I was browsing Amazon looking for a budget tempered glass case and stumbled across the newly released InWin 101. Almost immediately, I recognized something familiar: the red acrylic corner piece, the flat black surfaces... Yes of course, RX Vega! The reference design language of the card matched the case so perfectly that I thought I'd mocked up a PC part picker list for all of you here on the forums. I would love to see such a machine come to life in celebration of the release of Radeon Technologies Group high end graphics card. *Image usage disclaimer at bottom of post. Without the pricing on Vega as of this post, this setup is approximately $2200 sans GPUs (not that bad for what you get in peripherals). PC Part Picker List: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/finalCPU/saved/#view=zg93CJ First we begin with the case. At first glance the interior may dissuade some from this case due to it's odd fan layout, but with proper components we can achieve an upward airflow design that has been known to promote better heat dissipation. Here's a reference design render of RX Vega from WCCFTech for comparison: Most of the other components are more or less bang for the buck in terms of what you can find at the time, so here's what I came up with: Mainboard/CPU: Asus Strix X370 + Any Ryzen 7 CPU + BeQuite! Dark Rock 3 (Reorient for Upwards Airflow) Storage Devices: WD Black 256 NVME M.2 SSD (OS) + Sandisk Ultra II 480 (Games/Misc) + Seagate BarraCuda 2Tb 7200RPM HDD (Overflow) Power Supply and Memory: Corsair RM1000X + 2 x 8GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB + Gigabyte Wireless Card (Rev. 4.2) The reason for a 1000W PSU is that the current Frontier edition cards I've heard are able to consume up to 400 watts each, so this will hopefully be enough to keep usage between 70-90% for efficiency. Peripherals: RedDragon K556 RGB Mech. Keyboard + Corsair Sabre RGB Mouse + ATH AD500X Headphones + Acer XR342CK Monitor + Corsair AF120 Red Additional Fans All images owned by their respective copyright holders, procured from Google Image search.

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