SO CONFUSED

[Electrick]

Just watched linus' video on pcie lanes and I still need clarification. My i7-4790k has 16 pcie lanes and I want to have two gigabyte gtx 970s in sli and each of those takes up 8. So now 16 pcie lanes are taken up. What If I tried to put in a wireless adapter in a pci express? Would it not work? Would something crash? Would I arrive in a different dimension? Please help!

[Jerakl]

You'd probably go to a different dimension.

 

 

srs, it would just decrease the bandwidth of your GPUs. But since NVidia requires 8(?) lanes to run you would only be able to use 1 GPU.

[Clyne]

You could get a Gaming 9 for a sli setup and still want wifi if you still want the dual bandwidth speed...(i think)

[Krytopsy]

It might set your two graphic cards in 8x/4x configuration.

[Skiiwee29]

It might set your two graphic cards in 8x/4x configuration.

this wouldn't work with the 970. Nividia for SLI to work properly requires 8x8x minimum

[Linux User]

Your best bet is probably a USB adapter OR a PCI (non -e) adapter if your board supports it.

[Technous285]

Just watched linus' video on pcie lanes and I still need clarification. My i7-4790k has 16 pcie lanes and I want to have two gigabyte gtx 970s in sli and each of those takes up 8. So now 16 pcie lanes are taken up. What If I tried to put in a wireless adapter in a pci express? Would it not work? Would something crash? Would I arrive in a different dimension? Please help!

The 4790K might only have "16" PCIe lanes for the 16x-long slots, but that doesn't mean all 1x & 4x slots will also be working off that same set of PCIe lanes - board makers can & do put extra chipsets on to handle the smaller PCIe slots, so using those slots WON'T take away from the PCIe capabilities of the CPU itself.

It depends mainly on the make and model of the board though.