pcie

I have a X520-T2 dual 10Gbe NIC (uses 8xPCIe 2.0 lanes) which has a x8 footprint. Will this work properly in a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot which states it "supports x4 mode"? I think this means that the big slot (x16) has 4 PCIe4.0 lanes associated (x4) so that is equivalent to 16 x PCIe 2.0 lanes - more...

New high-end GPUs are hugely power-hungry. The 40 series is looking for 450W to 600W, maybe more. The form factor imposes considerable restrictions on cooling and noise control. This is a quandary. But we now have high bandwidth external connections like USB 4 and 100 Gb ethernet. So the...

Hello everyone I am an owner of an Asrock B450 Pro4 motherboard. It's got two M2 slots, only one of them is NVME as I am aware. I use one Kingston NVME SSD for system only. I have one sata HDD and SSD. I would like to buy a 1TB NVME ssd for games only. Is it possible to connect it to my...

I have a Crosshair VIII Hero running a Ryzen 5950x with a 3090 in PCIe slot 1, two M.2 drives onboard (one in PCIe mode), and USB3 card in the PCIe 1x slot if I add a sound card to PCIe slot 3 (the one closest the edge of the board) will PCIe slot 1 still run in x16 mode?

I'm considering a Lenovo M720Q as a HTPC, and wanted to know if I can use my Black Gold BGT3620 DVB-T2 TV card with it? It's a PCIe x1 card. Does anyone know if a card like this can be physically fitted to the M720Q?

I have an Asus Z170 pro gaming motherboard. Samsung SSD 850 Evo at 250gb in it with Windows (10 pro) on it and Office. An HDD at 1TB. With a few other bits and pieces on it. (ST2000DM001-1ER164) Intel Core i7-6700k CPU @ 4.00GHz. 16gb RAM I either want to replace the Samsung (which means I need...

Hey guys :) I've recently picked up a second GPU to allow me to work and play at the same time. Unfortunately, when I was trying to look for the box my misus told me he threw "some boxes" away when she had a general clean of the shed.. Yep, I know.. Is there any replacement cables I could get...

Or, Rocket Lake vs Ryzen vs Ice Lake Xeon vs Threadripper. Consumer Ryzen and Rocket Lake motherboards come with 24 PCIe lanes: 16 for the GPU, 4 for the NVME, and 4 for everything else, multiplexed out to 16 or so. Threadripper and Xeon (Ice lake) boards have 64 or more natively. But if you...

Hi, I have mobo Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+(https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRi-LN4F_.cfm) and I want to connect 6 GPUs to it. When I connect 3x RTX3060 directly through 16x pcie slots everything works fine. But when I try to use 8x to 16x riser and attach to it one card...

I have this NVME m.2 adapter https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07RZZ3TJG/ Into which I installed a WD_BLACK SN750 1TB High-Performance NVMe SSD (3500mb/s) My motherboard has only one spare PCIe slot. With a PCIe 2.0 interface on the spare PCIe slot... I was told to expect around 2000mb/s...

I only have one spare PCIe slot. This motherboard https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B450-A-PRO-MAX Id like to buy a PCIe card which takes two or more m.2 NVME SSD cards, so I can buy an SSD card now and add another card later. I have one NVME port on my mobo already, its a small card and has the...

Hello everyone I been having two sleepless nights over, I believe to be a common issue with 2017 and older motherboards. My friend and if all goes well Co worker wants to start doing youtube but we have hit a huge problem when trying to record pc gaming footage on obs and it ending up looking...

Can a PCI Express slot be split into x12 and x4? On most consumer motherboards there in one PCIe x16 slot which can be split into two x8 slots. That's not a lot of use these days. Allegedly the new GPUs will be bottlenecked by a PCIe v4 x8 slot, but not a x16 slot. NVME cards run off x4 slots...

Right now Ryzen 3000 CPUs support 24 PCIE lanes - 16 for the GPU, 4 for a NVME drive, and 4 for everything else. That seems too low for for the enthusiast sector, so I'm wondering if the Ryzen 4000 CPUs will support more? A boost to 36 (16 for the GPU, 8 for two NVME drives, 4 for 10 Gb...

Hi folks, Quick Q - recently bought a USB 3.0 PCIe Card (unpowered) and since installing my computer won't stay shut down. It shuts down but maybe a second later - reboots itself up! I've uninstalled the device and reinstalled - updated driver. It happens when nothing is plugged into the...

Linus Tech Tips has an interesting video about the problems they had when they maxxed out the PCIe lanes on their Epyc server with umpteen NVME drives TLDR There are major performance issues; it's all too fast and the bandwidth is overloaded. I'm wondering if Intel solutions have the same...

I recently learned of 180 degree power connectors for GPUs. Unfortunately OCUK don't stock them, so to help @OcUK - PREDATOR guage interest I thought I'd start this thread. I purchased these: They come as a pair. One is right-handed, the other left-handed. They're also available in 6 pin...

I am running a system based on a Gigabyte Z97X-SLI motherboard which I am (reluctantly, finally) moving over from Windows 7 to Windows 10. My current System "disk" is a 120 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD (no longer available). I am considering replacing it with a larger and faster 250 GB Samsung 970 EVO...

Hello everyone, This is my first build so apologies if this is really basic for someone however I have tried a few things now and I can't find a solution. The issue I am having is the RTX 2080 I have purchased does not work on the cables provided with my PSU (corsair RM750X) the PSU is modular...

Hello :] I recently picked up a used EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 that was missing a few cables and need to power to a PowerColor RX580 Red Devil which requires both an 8pin and 6pin connector. In my naivety, I found a "replacement" on eBay that had come from an EVGA 1000w GQ. Luckily, I did some...