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Hi,

 

I have this motherboard - https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/MAXIMUS-VIII-GENE/ and would like to install this M.2 NVMe SSD - https://www.kingston.com/us/ssd/consumer/SA1000M8 . I already have a graphics card in the top PCIe 16x slot, a sound card in the PCIe 4x slot (the sound card is 1x though) and two regular SSDs connected to sata ports. Will I be able to utilize all components at their full speed/bandwidth with this configuration? Also, is it possible that there will be any clearance issues between the M.2 SSD and the graphics card?

 

Thanks.

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5 minutes ago, Miha512 said:

Will I be able to utilize all components at their full speed/bandwidth with this configuration?

at the same time? Yes, you have a total of 4GB bandwidth to everything but the graphics card.

 

8 minutes ago, Miha512 said:

Also, is it possible that there will be any clearance issues between the M.2 SSD and the graphics card?

no, none of the M.2 SSDs get thick enough to touch any graphics card

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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19 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

at the same time? Yes, you have a total of 4GB bandwidth to everything but the graphics card.

 

no, none of the M.2 SSDs get thick enough to touch any graphics card

Thanks. I am still curious about the PCI lanes though - CPU has 16 own lanes, which are used only by the GPU, then there are 20 lanes left from the z170 chipset. AFAIK those are used for stuff like LAN, USB 3.1, SATA and other PCI devices. So 20 should be enough for all additional components that I have listed above, right?

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16 minutes ago, Miha512 said:

Thanks. I am still curious about the PCI lanes though - CPU has 16 own lanes, which are used only by the GPU, then there are 20 lanes left from the z170 chipset. AFAIK those are used for stuff like LAN, USB 3.1, SATA and other PCI devices. So 20 should be enough for all additional components that I have listed above, right?

Yes, but note that as the chipset works like a PCIe hub here, all the 20 lanes are still sharing the DMI connection to the CPU which has PCIe 3.0 x4 equivalent of bandwifth

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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