Question about how PCIE lanes work

[Kanlegi]

So this is a very uneducated post, but I'm trying to understand how my 9600k works with its 16 pcie lanes. I have a 2080 Ti, a TP link wifi adapter running at x1, and a samsung 970 evo which is x4. I want to add another samsung evo, but if my cpu only has 16 lanes, how will there be enough bandwidth? If I add that second drive, how will it effect everything else? I don't exactly want to lose performance from my 2080 Ti just by adding some storage.

So to clarify, this is currently in my system:

RTX 2080 Ti (x16)

TP Link WDN4800 (x1)

Samsung 970 Evo 1Tb (x4)

 

Forgive the ignorance if i'm way off base about how all this works, this isn't a field i've done any actual research in.

 

[Lemtea]

You will need to consult your motherboard manual to find out how pcie lanes are assigned, keep in mind the chipset also can provide additional lanes. But realistically adding another m.2 drive will have negligible impact on you 2080ti as gpus rarely saturate a x8 pcie gen 3 connection yet alone a x16 connection.

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, Lemtea said:

You will need to consult your motherboard manual to find out how pcie lanes are assigned, keep in mind the chipset also can provide additional lanes. But realistically adding another m.2 drive will have negligible impact on you 2080ti as gpus rarely saturate a x8 pcie gen 3 connection yet alone a x16 connection.

This.

[Metallus97]

3 minutes ago, Lemtea said:

You will need to consult your motherboard manual to find out how pcie lanes are assigned, keep in mind the chipset also can provide additional lanes. But realistically adding another m.2 drive will have negligible impact on you 2080ti as gpus rarely saturate a x8 pcie gen 3 connection yet alone a x16 connection.

Yeha! I rinn all my GPUs on 8x 8x 4x  (need thembecause F@H) and have zero performance impact on my VII while gaming (its in the upper 8x)

though 4x would not be nice. For compute like I do its fine.

[Jurrunio]

Shouldnt lose performance from the GPU, but you will from devices connected to the chipset. Those get 4 PCIe lanes from the CPU in total and they have to share them, so dont expect your SSD to run full speed when other stuff are in use.