What other motherboards have CPU attached NVME

[VisualProcessor]

I was looking at the gigabyte x299 designare 10g for the raid nvme capability. Are there any other motherboards similar to this where the cpu is not bottle necked when it needs to communicate to two nvme ssd's in raid?

[Jurrunio]

I mean, you could run 3 PCIe 3.0 x4 SSDs with 1 GPU with a 28-lane CPU or more with 44-lane models on paper. Maybe they cut away more M.2 ports with 28-lane CPUs, but 44 lane ones arent that much more expensive.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

I mean, you could run 3 PCIe 3.0 x4 SSDs with 1 GPU with a 28-lane CPU or more with 444-lane models on paper. Maybe they cut away more M.2 ports with 28-lane CPUs, but 44 lane ones arent that much more expensive.

Normally on intel boards, m.2 is ran from the chipset, so its not affected by the number of lanes on the cpu

 

Id just run the nvme drives in the pcie x16 slots with a adatper.

 

But why nvme raid? You will be network limited, and nvme raid doesn't really help performance wise. Id just get a bigger single drive if you can. You will also be limited by the 10gbe well before the cpu to drives limit.

[Jurrunio]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

m.2 is ran from the chipset,

I thought that's limited to their 16 lane platforms?

[VisualProcessor]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

But why nvme raid?

Id like to boot my OS as fast as possible. And if my local network will ever be involved, ill use a fiber card and nvme cache on the other end

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

I thought that's limited to their 16 lane platforms?

Normally the hedt intel boards use m.2 off chipset, and the cpu lanes are normally for the pcie slots mostly. This isn't really a issue normally though.