Am I exceeding my PCIE Lanes?

[Gamerfiend]

Hey all! 

 

Random one, Ive ben noticing jittering in games & I'm not quite sure why, so before I go on a deep dive, just wondering if someone here can confirm/ debunk whether I'm using too many PCIE lanes? I've tried reading into this but Im kinda lost

 

My Specs;

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite (Rev 1.0)

 

Both M2 Slots are occupied ( 1 x Gigabyte 1tb M2 & 1 x Intel 1TB M2)

 

Graphics Card: Asus TUF 3080Ti

 

 

 

Other;

 

Storage - 1 x 2TB Seagate Firecuda SATA Drive 3.5"

RAM - 64Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4

CPU - AMD 3900X 

 

[RONOTHAN##]

7 minutes ago, Gamerfiend said:

just wondering if someone here can confirm/ debunk whether I'm using too many PCIE lanes?

It's not really how PCIe lanes work. No, this is not your issue. 

[Gamerfiend]

2 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

It's not really how PCIe lanes work. No, this is not your issue. 

Ah ok, Will check elsewhere, thank you!

[Jeppes]

Most likely its the cpu holding you back. 3900x is prone to latency spikes thanks to the L3 being shared for 3core units. Its like a (3+3)+(3+3) setup where as the new 3D models that work great with games are a single 8 with much faster cores. You could upgrade to a 5800x3d and sell that old one, 150-220$ upgrade depending on how much you get for 3900X there.

[emosun]

43 minutes ago, Gamerfiend said:

Ive ben noticing jittering in games & I'm not quite sure why

ok well step one is doing diagnostics to find out why vs taking total guess at it having anything to do with pci-e lanes.

[PDifolco]

43 minutes ago, Gamerfiend said:

Hey all! 

 

Random one, Ive ben noticing jittering in games & I'm not quite sure why, so before I go on a deep dive, just wondering if someone here can confirm/ debunk whether I'm using too many PCIE lanes? I've tried reading into this but Im kinda lost

 

My Specs;

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite (Rev 1.0)

 

Both M2 Slots are occupied ( 1 x Gigabyte 1tb M2 & 1 x Intel 1TB M2)

 

Graphics Card: Asus TUF 3080Ti

 

 

 

Other;

 

Storage - 1 x 2TB Seagate Firecuda SATA Drive 3.5"

RAM - 64Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4

CPU - AMD 3900X 

 

No, you're fully using the X570 lanes, no "overload"

CPU 20 lanes : 16 on GPU, 4 on 1st M2 

Chipset 4 lanes : 4 on the 2nd M2

 

[emosun]

10 minutes ago, Jeppes said:

Most likely its the cpu holding you back. 3900x is prone to latency spikes thanks to the L3 being shared for 3core units. Its like a (3+3)+(3+3) setup where as the new 3D models that work great with games are a single 8 with much faster cores. You could upgrade to a 5800x3d and sell that old one, 150-220$ upgrade depending on how much you get for 3900X there.

hey thats a pretty good guess considering you have no idea what games they are playing

[Jeppes]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

hey thats a pretty good guess considering you have no idea what games they are playing

Thank you?

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, Jeppes said:

Thank you?

no problem. if i ever need anyone to recommend buying more hardware before doing any sort of diagnostics I know exactly who to go to.

[wONKEyeYEs]

1 hour ago, emosun said:

no problem. if i ever need anyone to recommend buying more hardware before doing any sort of diagnostics I know exactly who to go to.

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[Jeppes]

On 10/23/2023 at 1:02 AM, emosun said:

no problem. if i ever need anyone to recommend buying more hardware before doing any sort of diagnostics I know exactly who to go to.

Or you could read reviews to keep up with hardware and how it performs. Feel free to ask but there must be quicker and easier ways.

 

I took a wild stab in the dark just based on how the text was written in understandable English. No need to waste everyone's time on useless low level tech support stuff like turning it off and on again, gpu in x16 slot instead of chipset x4, re-installing drivers etc. Yes slow ram or installing games/os on a spinning drive can cause it to jitter more but 3900x will likely offer decent to annoying amounts of microstutter in most new games with high refresh rates even when everything is configured correctly. So its most likely a complete waste of time trying to hunt down why it stutters when the answer in most cases is simply the cpu in use.

[emosun]

4 hours ago, Jeppes said:

I took a wild stab in the dark just based on how the text was written in understandable English. No need to waste everyone's time on useless low level tech support stuff like turning it off and on again, gpu in x16 slot instead of chipset x4, re-installing drivers etc. Yes slow ram or installing games/os on a spinning drive can cause it to jitter more but 3900x will likely offer decent to annoying amounts of microstutter in most new games with high refresh rates even when everything is configured correctly. So its most likely a complete waste of time trying to hunt down why it stutters when the answer in most cases is simply the cpu in use.

did you type that or is it a copy paste from the bestbuy geeksquad handbook

[Mark Kaine]

On 10/22/2023 at 11:12 PM, Gamerfiend said:

1 x 2TB Seagate Firecuda SATA Drive 3.5"

well, hello there!

[Bagzie]

On 10/22/2023 at 10:12 PM, Gamerfiend said:

Hey all! 

 

Random one, Ive ben noticing jittering in games & I'm not quite sure why, so before I go on a deep dive, just wondering if someone here can confirm/ debunk whether I'm using too many PCIE lanes? I've tried reading into this but Im kinda lost

 

My Specs;

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite (Rev 1.0)

 

Both M2 Slots are occupied ( 1 x Gigabyte 1tb M2 & 1 x Intel 1TB M2)

 

Graphics Card: Asus TUF 3080Ti

 

 

 

Other;

 

Storage - 1 x 2TB Seagate Firecuda SATA Drive 3.5"

RAM - 64Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4

CPU - AMD 3900X 

 

What games are you getting jittering in with that setup? 

 

Helps to know a bit more detail , Maybe even a short clip with frametime graphs to see what's going on.