will PCI-E samsung 960 affect my gpu ?

[samir haddad]

hey i bought a new pc and it on its ways but i have a series question about some of the hardware

first of all my pc is :
cpu:  i7 8700k 3.7GHZ-4.7GHZ 12mb cach

gpu: asus rog strix 1080ti 11gb

motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO LGA1151v2, Intel Z370

ssd: Samsung 960 EVO M.2 MZ-V6E500BW 500GB SSD

1)my problem is that the gpu works on 16 lanes and the ssd works on 8 lanes i think , so will this affect my gpu and i will get lower fps ?
2)even if  put the gpu on 16 lanes and the pcie ssd on 8 lanes , will they both work on 8 lanes (on the lower)?
 

 

please help me i cant find an answer for this question and i need to give the lab answers if i want the m2 ssd or not

[Oshino Shinobu]

SSD works on 2 or 4 lanes and will use lanes from the chipset, not the CPU, so the GPU's lanes will be unaffected. Even if it did use CPU lanes and the GPU went down to 8, it wouldn't have any impact on performance as the GPU isn't capable of fully saturating a PCIe 3.0 8x connection. 

[DocSwag]

The SSD is 4 lanes.

 

You could have it run off cpu pcie lanes, in which case the gpu will only get 8. However, 8 is more than enough, and at most you might see 1% less fps than if you had 16.

 

You could also run it off chipset lanes, in which case the gpu won't be affected.

 

Question, is this build only for gaming? If so, consider just getting a sata ssd instead, since nvme isn't beneficial for app launch times and boot up times.

[samir haddad]

14 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

The SSD is 4 lanes.

 

You could have it run off cpu pcie lanes, in which case the gpu will only get 8. However, 8 is more than enough, and at most you might see 1% less fps than if you had 16.

 

You could also run it off chipset lanes, in which case the gpu won't be affected.

 

Question, is this build only for gaming? If so, consider just getting a sata ssd instead, since nvme isn't beneficial for app launch times and boot up times.

yes its only for gaming , and i think sata 3 is more than enough speed 
because i dont want to give up performance for a little speed add 

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, samir haddad said:

yes its only for gaming , and i think sata 3 is more than enough speed 
because i dont want to give up performance for a little speed add 

Sata would be a better option, it's also cheaper than NVMe.

[Blatcher2]

NVMe doesn't really help much for gaming, but a small speed boost can be nice. Don't worry about your PCI Lanes you have 24 on your chipset and the 960 evo uses 4 lanes. You have a beast a gaming computer just use it to play some games

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 hour ago, samir haddad said:

yes its only for gaming , and i think sata 3 is more than enough speed 
because i dont want to give up performance for a little speed add 

You won't be giving up performance for the speed of NVMe, but you would be spending more money on NVMe while it will make next to no difference for your primary and everyday use. 

[samir haddad]

so if i put NVMe it wont affect any performance of the gpu at all ?
and the gpu will use all the 16x lanes?

because i entered asus motherboard and read about this ..
it look like the new 370z chip have a mini cpu that have saperate lanes for this kind of things , is that true?

 

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https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-MAXIMUS-X-HERO/

[DocSwag]

10 hours ago, samir haddad said:

so if i put NVMe it wont affect any performance of the gpu at all ?
and the gpu will use all the 16x lanes?

because i entered asus motherboard and read about this ..
it look like the new 370z chip have a mini cpu that have saperate lanes for this kind of things , is that true?

 

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https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-MAXIMUS-X-HERO/

Depends on what ports. Unless you use a pcie to m.2 adapter though it'll probably use chipset lanes and won't affect the gpu.