ClaytonJR22

I'm mainly just doing research into different components that are available. Sorry, I'm still learning how all of this works. Is there something about it that is bad? From what I understand it would be a pretty powerful build. Although my understanding could be wrong.

Hello everyone, I'm looking into building a new computer, and I am having a little bit of trouble. I'm currently looking into getting a x299 motherboard, and the intel i9 7980XE. I'm at a loss as to figuring out how to set up the PCIe x16 slots. Ideally I would like to have two GPUs in SLI, as well as two Intel Optane SSD drives that require PCIe x4 running in raid 0. Would this be possible? For example, I am looking at a motherboard that says that with a 44 PCIe lane CPU I could get x16/x16/x8. So the two GPUs will take the x16/x16, but if I install two SSDs in the two remaining PCIe slots, will it run x16/x16/x4/x4? Or will the fourth slot containing the second SSD not work as the motherboard specs say x16/x16/x8? Any information regarding how to understand all of this would be greatly appreciated. I've been having a difficult time wrapping my mind around it by myself.