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X99 or Skylake?

I need more pcie lanes and not for sli/crossfire. Should I wait for skylake or just go ahead and jump to x99. I'm already using a sli setup and that takes all 16 with my 4770k. I want to use the Intel 750 with my sli setup and get full use of the ssd card.

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Intel X99 will have either 28 or 40 pcie lanes for your graphic cards and NVMe ssds. Intel Skylake cpus will only have 16 pcie lanes, but the chipset itself will also provide a additional 20 gen 3 lanes for other devices. The problem is, there is no details as to where the lanes are routed to, are they routed to the PCIe slots or just to the M.2 connectors?

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Intel X99 will have either 28 or 40 pcie lanes for your graphic cards and NVMe ssds. Intel Skylake cpus will only have 16 pcie lanes, but the chipset itself will also provide a additional 20 gen 3 lanes for other devices. The problem is, there is no details as to where the lanes are routed to, are they routed to the PCIe slots or just to the M.2 connectors?

Okay, well we're only a week or so out so I'll just wait and see.

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