M.2 pci question

[Metro_boomin]

Say I have an i5-7600k on a MSI z370i AC board with any graphic card taking 16 PCIe lanes, (or just PCI idk the difference,)would I be able to use m.2 memory or would that take up a lane too?

[suchamoneypit]

Your chipset almost always if not always has a few PCI-E lanes that the M.2 drive will use, leaving your GPU unaffected, even if you had 2 GPUs installed.

[Metro_boomin]

1 minute ago, suchamoneypit said:

Your chipset almost always if not always has a few PCI-E lanes that the M.2 drive will use, leaving your GPU unaffected, even if you had 2 GPUs installed.

Bet thanks ?️

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, Metro_boomin said:

i5-7600k on a MSI z370i AC board

I know that's merely an example, but Z370 board wont work with 7600k.

 

4 minutes ago, Metro_boomin said:

any graphic card taking 16 PCIe lanes, (or just PCI idk the difference,)would I be able to use m.2 memory or would that take up a lane too?

that m.2 drive will be connected to the chipset, sharing bandwidth with other stuff like SATA devices and USB devices. I have yet to see a motherboard that cuts the graphics card's bandwidth to x8 to spare up lanes for the NVMe drive (though it's the better way to do it, since graphics cards take minimal performance hit from x16 to x8)

 

Performance loss will be small, unless you write to all the other SATA drives at the same time.

[Shane Cooney]

The Z370 chipset has upto 24 PCI lanes available dependent on motherboard manufacturer so you should have no issues whatsoever throwing a m.2 onto the board.

[Metro_boomin]

1 minute ago, Shane Cooney said:

The Z370 chipset has upto 24 PCI lanes available dependent on motherboard manufacturer so you should have no issues whatsoever throwing a m.2 onto the board.

Is there any difference with the itx version of the board (I doubt it tho)

[Shane Cooney]

2 minutes ago, Metro_boomin said:

Is there any difference with the itx version of the board (I doubt it tho)

From looking at the specs on the MSI website for that particular board which is obviously ITX it doesnt look like it, but I am happy to be corrected.

[dizmo]

Can't wait for PCIE 4.0 just for this reason.