Choosing the Right CPU (PCIe Lanes matter bro)
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6 minutes ago, Anna Fire said:However, two GTX 1080s in SLI REQUIRE at least 16 PCIe lanes (2x8) to work which means that I cannot also have M.2/U.2 NVMe (x4, or in RAID 0 2x4).
*sad trombone plays*
Incorrect - the chipset shares a metric fucktonne of PCI-E lanes with the entire system, called HSIO lanes.
The Z270 chipset shares 30 lanes with the system, and some manufacturers assign PCI-E X4, dual NVMe, Thunderbolt, etc with these lanes. NVMe SSDs run off the CHIPSET lanes, not the CPU's lanes.
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