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M.2 SSD with a i7 6700K

Draconorst
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Quick question.

At some stage I'm going to upgrade to a i7 6700K with the gigabyte G1 gaming 7 board and a GTX 980. What I want to know is will a M.2 Samsung 950 pro SSD impact on graphic performance?

The M.2 uses 4 PCIe lanes, the 6700K only has 16 therefore the gpu will drop down to x8.

Would the x8 drop have an effect at 1440p or 4k resolution?

would it be better to upgrade to a x99 platform with a 5820K with 28 PCIe lanes?

Would love Linus to test this.

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Don't worry about it; even gen 2 x8 is fine.

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Quick question.

At some stage I'm going to upgrade to a i7 6700K with the gigabyte G1 gaming 7 board and a GTX 980. What I want to know is will a M.2 Samsung 950 pro SSD impact on graphic performance?

The M.2 uses 4 PCIe lanes, the 6700K only has 16 therefore the gpu will drop down to x8.

Would the x8 drop have an effect at 1440p or 4k resolution?

would it be better to upgrade to a x99 platform with a 5820K with 28 PCIe lanes?

Would love Linus to test this.

 

M.2 slots on Z170 boards are wired to the chipset, which has an additional 20 lanes of PCIe 3.0. The CPU's 16 lanes are only used for the full length PCIe slots.

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GPU is not bottle-necked by PCI3 3.0 8x, not even PCIe 2.0 8x (equivalent to PCIe 3.0 4x) is a bottneck.

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Don't worry about it; even gen 2 x8 is fine.

the only place where i've seen this actually mattering is back when minecraft had this horrendous issue where it'd push the entire texture pack (imagine modded with a high res texture pack here, roughly 300 megabytes at worst) to the GPU on every frame.

 

i hope they fixed that by now...

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