6700k PCIE Lanes Limitation? 6700k+SLI

done12many2 · October 7, 2016

4 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Multiple reasons

A) I don't care about having to prove myself. It's not like I know any of you, and I'll probably forget that this forum exists in a week.

B) I don't have access to that build anymore, and there is no reason for me to have access to it.

C) The point of the thread is whether it's possible to run 2 1080s and a x4 M.2 in a system. The point of my post is that mainboard manufacturers can route lanes as they need and/or want.

I never said it isn't possible. If the board has 2 x16 slots and an M.2, it'd be pretty stupid if they weren't all usable if the resources are there. All I said is that manufacturers can and have routed differently from what makes sense to us.

You're wrong AGAIN bud. The point of this thread was whether it was possible to do the mentioned specifically with the Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7. Guess what, the GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 routes it's M.2 through the chipset so there was no need for you to even bring up the topic of other motherboards as it's not even relevant. You continue to miss the point.

The even funnier part of this is that you brought up something that was irrelevant and can't even prove your irrelevant point.

NumLock21 · October 7, 2016

Intel Skylake chipset, with the least amount of lanes is the Intel H110. It has a total of 6 lanes running at PCIe 2.0. Motherboards with M.2, that uses this chipset, will reduce the number of lanes dedicated to the M.2, depending on the number of other slots it has on the board. Even the chipset with the least amount of lanes, won't grab lanes off the CPU.

M.2 Gen 2 at x4, goes own to x2 or x1

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5738#ov

M.2 Gen 2 at x2, goes down to x1

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5596#ov

Update: Corrected H110 lanes info. it's 6 not 4.

Rest of the chipsets, its lanes, and gen it runs at