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Had to buy a whole new 10GbE NIC because Asus pulled a stupid.

 

The Strix x299-E Gaming has two x4 slots but instead of making the upper x4 slot wired to x4 and the bottom wired at x1 speeds they decided to do the opposite. I've been wondering why my P900 drive has been so slow and after checking the manual again I realized why. So I had to buy a 1x 10GbE x4 NIC so I could swap out my 2x 10GbE x8 NIC and put the P900 in the bottom x16 slot since dual GPU's prevent the bottom x4 slot from being usable. *sigh*

  1. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    It seems electrically both are x4 but I know manufacturers will make slots share lanes so when you occupy one another will be x1 or not available at all. Pretty dumb especially on a high end enthusiast board.

  2. Lurick

    Lurick

    That's what I was thinking but upon further reading it's only going to operate at x1 speeds regardless for some odd reasons which is very dumb =/

  3. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    That's something I've never heard of. When you say 2x 10Gbit I assume it was a dual port card. Did you need that second port? Multi-channel or anything?

  4. Lurick

    Lurick

    I didn't need the second port, it was free so that's why I was using it, but I was only using one of the ports on it.

  5. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    My dual SFP+ card was using multichannel until I switched protocols because SMB on linux just isn't there performance wise. Unfortunately switching to iSCSI it was discovered that although an available feature multi-path just doesn't work for whatever reason on Windows 10 Pro so now I have a 10Gbit redundant link.

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