VantheMan101

Legend, thanks heaps man!

Hey guys, I will be doing quite a bit of multitasking, especially with my work. I should have mentioned, I am currently running a 3rd Gen i7, and its getting a bit slow, especially with gaming. I have been tossing up between ryzen and z270, as they're both relatively similar prices in Australia. Is the gaming performance of ryzen that bad that I should be veering away from it?

Hey there guys, I'm currently planning a new Z270 build, looking at spending around $4000 AUD for it. The issue I'm having, or more struggling to understand, is with the topic of PCIe lanes. I'm looking at building a system mainly for heavy CAD use and the occasional video gaming (3 x 1080p monitors). So my first choice of CPU is the 7700k, along with a Asus Maximus IX Hero motherboard and quite possibly the Nvidia 1080 ti graphics card (when it comes out). My problem is, I want to run my OS off an M.2 ssd mounted on the motherboard (Samsung 960 EVO), and then I was thinking of using another M.2 (the motherboard has 2 slots) for storage of my most used games and programs, just to get the maximum speed possible. I am struggling to understand whether this is even possible, or even worth it, from a perspective of PCIe lanes, and if so, how do you calculate this? I'm really curious as to how this is worked out, along with even if I can cram all this hardware onto this chip set, can I attach for example a PCI wireless card on top of all this? Basically I'm just looking for advice, can I stick with the build I'm looking at, or will I have to go for an AMD AM4 / Intel X99 chipset to achieve this? Any help is greatly appreciated!