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That motherboard has 2 PCIe x16 slots. Use of the M.2 socket does not affect either one. So your good to go. The M.2 socket will use lanes dedicated for the sata ports, so it may disable two of them.

16 lanes via cpu, 8 lanes through the chipset https://www.techpowerup.com/235883/intel-coffee-lake-platform-detailed-24-pcie-lanes-from-the-chipset
chipset lanes
no
yes
yes

CPU PCIe lanes can be found at ark.intel.com. Chipset PCIe lanes can also be found at the same location. Z370 for example has up to 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes. Occasionally a motherboard will have additional PCIe lanes. That information would be found on the manufacturers web page for the motherboard. Yes. Typically 4. Not noticeably. See https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-performance-impact-on-gpus Generally yes. Usually the gpu use cpu PCIe lanes while M.2 connections use chipset lanes. Yes. http://www.storagereview.com/adata_xpg_sx8000_pcie_m2_ssd_review  

First 2 x16 slots uses lanes from your CPU. Rest of the system including your M.2 uses lanes from the Z270 chipset. There are 16 lanes from the CPU and 24 lanes from the chipset. When your M.2 uses 4 out of the 24 lanes from the chipset, there is still 20 lanes left for everything else.
You'll have plenty of lanes, so don't worry about it too much.

Alright here are this year's winners for Folding Month.

Selected from the LTT team Top 100:
1. @Cbwgoose - Corsair Prize Pack
2. @palespartan - Corsair Prize Pack
3. @yaboistar - Cablemod Pro Cable Kit
 
Huge shout out to all of those peeps for their long term support of the folding team
 
And the rest of the winners, selected randomly, and then randomly assigned a prize. ?
4. @tarfeef101 - Fractal Design Define R6 TG
5. @Bloopidty - Fractal Design Define R6 TG
 
6. @Yebi - 3 Month Floatplane Sub
7. @Jawa_Juice - EVGA 240mm or 280mm AIO Cooler (requested a redraw for someone else to win :D)
New 7. @Redzuzu - EVGA 240mm or 280mm AIO Cooler
8. @LpoolTech - 3 Month Floatplane Sub
9. @ObscureMammal - Cablemod Pro Cable Kit
10. @ky56 - EVGA 650 G5 PSU
11. @MichaelKilvington - Corsair Prize Pack
12. @Glitchy_Mammal - 3 Month Floatplane Sub (requested redraw)
New 12. @Tbon88 - 3 Month Floatplane Sub
13. @Iceman 4_20 - EVGA 650 G5 PSU (no response)
New 13. @KuroSetsuna29 - EVGA 650 G5 PSU
14. @Yggdrasil128 - EVGA 240mm or 280mm AIO Cooler
15. @pbx2 - Cablemod Pro Cable Kit
16. @Rowbs - 3 Month Floatplane Sub
17. @Corrupt_Liberty - Corsair Prize Pack
18. @Alextmoo - 3 Month Floatplane Sub
19. @PlyLean - EVGA 240mm or 280mm AIO Cooler
20. @Tufty11 - 3 Month Floatplane Sub
21. @notEnoughCores - 3 Month Floatplane Sub
22. @Dissitesuxba11s - EVGA 650 G5 PSU
23. @The Grim Dealer - Cablemod Pro Cable Kit
24. @MrJosh23 - 3 Month Floatplane Sub
25. @LAR_Systems - EVGA 240mm or 280mm AIO Cooler
26. @c4181 - Cablemod Pro Cable Kit
27. @Sam680 - EVGA 650 G5 PSU
28. @Neopentan - Corsair Prize Pack
29. @Titaan - 3 Month Floatplane Sub
30. @Struck - 3 Month Floatplane Sub
 
I will be contacting each person via forum PM, they all have 72 hours to respond, otherwise their prize will be redrawn.
 
EDIT: @Jawa_Juice (#7) requested that I redraw their prize for someone else. @Redzuzu was randomly selected in their place.
EDIT 2: @Glitchy_Mammal (#12) requested that I redraw their prize for someone else. @Tbon88 was randomly selected in their place.

'Tis the season of giving, perhaps?

2+2=5
 
For extremely large values of 2.

??15 Billion points for the month!! ??
 

Here's mine, then. 7700k and EVGA GTX1080 SLI watercooled. Rest is in my profile
 

That's why I was asking, it took quite a few hours for my user to appear on exoverclocking, but I folded 10 years ago and folding had my stats from then. Now it shows on both, thanks.

Either one should be acceptable. The official folding@home.org updates more frequently than XOC, but XOC has historic values, graphs and comparison charts.

Just wanted to say that I had the same problem as everyone else and the only thing I had to do was isolate the Display Port cable as PIRATA recommended. The cable must be very sensitive because the only cable it was really close to was the monitor's own power cable. Thanks for the tip PIRATA, it was driving me crazy that I couldn't figure out how to fix the issue.
 
Edit: Nevermind, it started doing it again. I got too excited. 

Maybe I found a possible culprit: Display Port cable near to electrical cables!!!
 
My main DP cable is inside a worm with all electrical cables for the computer and desk, and it goes around desk, and it is long 5mt.
 
I have made some tests with a spare PD cable that hanging in the air from pc to monitor, and that is 1.8mt long. NO ISSUES!!
 
I realized this as turning on my desk light, the display was going off/on as I was turning on/off the desk light that has high consumption of electricity.
 
I think that G-Sync is very sensitive to any sort of electric fluctuations.
 
If any tries and confirms my theory, PLEASE POST BACK as a feedback.
 
Thank you all.

Kevin,
 
You are not alone with this issue.   This issue has been around for about 4-5 years now.  I have the exact same problem, on an Acer Predator monitor 24."
 
Symptoms:
 
-Intermittent issue - This issue went away on it's own for about a year or so.  (It just returned for me today)
-Explicitly related to G-Sync
-Disabling fast startup does not fix the issue
-Changing refresh rate does not fix the issue
-Changing display cable does not fix the issue
-Monitor turns on and off constantly
-Full Screen vs Windowed mode does not matter
-Reinstalling the video driver does not fix the issue
 
Resolution:
 
Turn off GSync
 
Common Denominators:
 
-Acer Predator monitors
-Issue is statistically rare.   In 4 or 5 years you are the only other person I know that has the same issue I do.
-DCOM errors?
 
Bottom Line:  Issue needs to be resolved by either Acer, or Nvidia.  It's either a design flaw in the Acer Monitor, or a driver issue with Nvidia.  USUALLY,  flickering monitors like this are driver specific issues, it's the driver shutting down, and re-enabling itself. (This is done automatically by windows in an attempt to recover the driver crash)
 
Another potential cause for this issue are DCOM errors in windows itself.  DCOM errors can randomly affect software.  And I recall when I had fixed all of the DCOM errors in windows the issue subsided for a long time.  As I look now in my Event Log, I see multiple DCOM errors.   
 
DCOM errors are caused by microsoft being lazy with developing windows and updates.  It's basically a permissions issue within windows that microsoft is to stupid or lazy to fix.
 
I truthfully cannot say for sure if DCOM errors are causing this issue, but I do know they cause random unpredictable software errors, even crashes.
 
Fixing DCOM errors are not for the squeamish however,  There's a lot of registry editing that needs to be done to fix the issue.
 
This is the best website I found to fix DCOM errors, but you will also want to read the comments by me "FlukeLSX" because there is some missing information this guide doesn't tell people.  
 
https://www.itexperience.net/2018/12/02/event-id-10016-fix-the-application-specific-permission-settings-do-not-grant-local-activation-permission-for-the-com-server-application-with-clsid/
 
Note:  DCOM errors can return after major windows updates such as "Cumulative Updates or version updates"  The only reason I'm posting this information is in hopes that someone out there can better explain this issue and or what specifically causes it.
 
 
 
 

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