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I've looked into a few splitter boxes, I'm not 100% sure about them. Some just mirror the image, others scale the image across multiple displays by just making the 3 displays act like 1 super wide monitor, some have some more advanced techniques for splitting up the image. Ideally I would prefer that windows can identify each display as it's own display. The most promising technology I've found I think is display port chaining, but none of my displays support it. Another concept I thought of is trying to see if I can use a usb-C dongle to get an hdmi and a display port from the usb-c port on the 2070S. My downsides to this are 1. it costs money to buy and it might not work and 2. I lose out on the performance gains from the 3080. Another possible option is MST but the adapters are a little more expensive then I would have liked, though it is a consideration.

I could get a weaker GPU for the second card which will conserve more electricity and then sell one of my cards but there's a few reasons why I'm not crazy about that idea. 1. I don't really have the capital right now to buy a GPU, so I would need to sell one of the cards first and I'd be left without a few monitors for a bit. 2. I'd need to go through the hassle of selling one of those GPU's and I've heard enough horror stories of sellers being screwed over selling a used GPU, making me fearful that I might get ripped off one of my GPU's. and lastly I just find keeping the two GPU's I already have being the least friction way of using my displays. Ideally I would like to find some sort of way to split 1 dp into 2 or 3 for example like Thomas4 mentioned, the most promising solution I've found so far is Display Port Chaining, but I don't think my monitors support that feature. Another thought that I've had is seeing if I can use a USB C dongle with the 2070S to get 2 extra display outputs, but again that solution requires me to buy a dongle which might not work, and then I lose out on the extra performance from the 3080. In my ideal world I would just find a new GPU with 2 HDMI ports and 4 display ports and that I can continently buy for the same cost as selling my 2 GPU's, then it would just be a problem of not having the initial budget of buying said GPU. Either way, what I have now works fine for me, and the good ole saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

The question I was mainly asking was since the 2070 and 3080 share bandwidth I was wondering if the 2070 would force the 3080 to run at gen3 speeds. However, it looks like that's not the case. The BIOS shows the 3080 running at Gen4x8 and the 2070 running at gen3x8.

I originally wanted to keep that x4 slot free for possibly installing a 10 gige network card, but I would only do that once Synology releases a NAS that both supports Hardware Transcoding and 10gigE but that might be a long while.

The motherboard also has that third 16x slot that's running gen 4x4, as long as I only use 3 nvme ssd's I can use that third slot for the second GPU which would give the 3080 full gen 4x16 speeds. Though with a 2070 it'll be running at gen3x4, idk if that might cause problems, if I understand this properly gen 3x4 would be like running the GPU through a thunderbolt dock, meaning the 2070 loses about 30% of performance but all of the Displays should work perfectly fine???

The top two x16 slots in the Gigabyte X570S AERO G share an x16 lane and will operate as 2 x8 slots when occupied by 2 devices. The main reason why I use 2 GPU's are because of the amount of display outputs I need, 3 HDMI outputs and 3 dp outputs. If I could somehow satisfy those requirements with 1 GPU then I would not need a second, and that would be preferred as it would probably improve the power consumption of my PC.

Will a 2070 Super bottleneck a 3080 sharing a 16x slot from a motherboard. Some background on my setup. I do freelance CAD and enjoy playing video games on my free time. I use 2 GPU's because I have 6 displays and need the extra video outputs. 4 Displays are in my office on my desk, the other 2 outputs go into my Livingroom for VR. I recently upgraded my motherboard to a Gigabyte X570S AERO G, mainly for extra m.2 slots and 2.5gbe. I use 3 storage devices, a gen 4 2tb Samsung Pro SSD for boot, a 2tb gen3 ssd for projects/work, and finally a 1tb gen3 ssd for games. The question that I have is will my 2070 Super being a pcie gen 3 card, force the 3080 to also run at pcie gen 3x8 given the design of the Gigabyte x570S motherboard. Furthermore out of curiosity would that mean that if a gen3 device was wired to the chipset, that all devices connected to the chipset will be throttled to gen 3 speeds as well? For example my 2 gen 3 nvme ssd's wired through the chipset.

I currently plan on picking up 2 new drives now. One to replace the dead drive, and the second I'm not sure what would be best to do with. If I should install the second drive after the first drive is rebuilt or wait until a second drive dies to replace it or until I have enough drives to fully replace the array. My thought is if I wait till a second drive fails then I would be replacing the next drive likely to fail. Whereas by replacing a random drive the new drive that drive might not be the next drive to fail.

The current drives in the NAS are 8tb each and are pretty much full, the new drive I just purchased is 12tb just so that when I've replaced all the drives I can expand capacity

I currently have a NAS as backup for all of the data in my Laptop and Desktop. My laptop has 2 drives in RAID 1 so I'm less concerned about losing data from it. However my Desktop has a ton of miscellaneous drives from throughout the ages with no redundancies other then me having backups of my important data on my NAS. The NAS currently has 4 Dell Enterprise drives in RAID 5 and they are at the end of their lives. I don't know exactly how old they are, but they are at least 6 years old. I was already planning on replacing every drive in the NAS, originally planning on buying the first new drive 6 months from now then adding a new one every 6 months until all the drives are new. I also then planned on replacing the oldest drive either every 3 years or every 5 years from that point. Unfortunately last night 1 of the drives in my NAS died, out of concern about losing data I've shut down the NAS until my new drive arrives on Monday. I don't have the money to replace all of the drives right now, but I was thinking about buying a second new drive which brings me here. Would it be better practice to replace a second one of the 6 year old drives now or wait until a second drive dies and replace it with a second new drive already on hand. Basically I already plan on buying a second hard drive, but I'm not sure if I should install it right away or wait until a new drive dies.

Thank you

I was just wondering, I've noticed that Samsung, Crucial, and WD don't have any 4 or 8tb NVME ssd's and I was wondering if there was a particular reason for it.

Does an extra 0.16ghz make a difference? if you have two 4 core processors both 1.6ghz but one has a boost clock of 2.4 and the other is 2.56 does it really make much of a difference?

could you make it so like one computer can only use 5mbps up and 5mbps down

thankyou that router looks good. now also just wondering could it allow you to set priority to computers to, that wasnt what i was originally planning on doing but im just wondering?