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I think I realized the nonsense about worrying about the RAID card being on x8. It has SATA6 drives, which top out at theoretically 600MB/s and PCIe 2.0 x4 (500MB/s per lane) is theoretically 2GB/s. Also on top of that 4 of the 8 drives are 5900 RPM. SATA6 shouldn't get anywhere near the speeds that x4 has, so why bother worrying? Guess I am over thinking it. Running CrystalDiskMark shows there is no difference on the M5A99FX board between x4 and x8. Thanks all. I am going to go with what my brother helped me do. It will allow the GPU to run at x16 while the RAID will run at x4 and keeps me at about $550 USD.
Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING II
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Vermeer 3.7GHz 6-Core
G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200
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