CPU Lanes - Choice

[noobftw]

I want to upgrade my system to either an i9 11900k or 5950x and appropriate motherboard, I require the following components to be connected,

• X1 NVME (Samsung 970 Evo)
• X1 3090FE
• X1 NIC (x540)

Do I have enough PCIE lanes to run all this on either setup?

Thanks in advance.

 

[noobftw]

Thanks for the reply, I think I'll go with AMD this time. Does this puppy run hot?

 

[noobftw]

Just get the best cooler you can fit in your case but do you need 16 cores ?

AMD the MSI x570 Tomahawk wifi is one of the best value motherboards

I have a custom water loop, x2 420 30mm thick rads, but the CPU will be in the loop with a 3090FE, have to hope that's enough cooling power.

 

[noobftw]

Any x570 motherboard recommendation's that don't have a small fan on the mobo? I'm coming from an Asus Rampage Apex that I think was really decent/high end at the time of purchase.

 

[noobftw]

All x570 motherboards have a small chipset fan there going to be releasing the x570S motherboard soon with a passive heatsink.

Do they get noisy? I had a motherboard a while back with a chipset fan and it drove me mad.

X570 AORUS XTREME, has a passive cooling backplate and comes with built-in 10GB LAN support, think i just fell in love haha

Anyone got hands on experience with the X570 AORUS XTREME?

 

[noobftw]

Apologies about the fan situation thought all X570 had one but i rarley look at £600 motherboards.

Yeah, it is expensive :/. There is one moe, the ASUS AMD Ryzen X570 ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero, no 10GB NIC built into that though, £440

 

[noobftw]

Yes, either of those will be fine.

11900K: 20 PCIe 4 lanes on the CPU.
Z590 Chip set: 24 PCIe 3 lanes

5950X: 20 PCIe 4 lanes on the CPU
X570 Chip set: 16 PCIe 4 lanes
B550 Chip set: 10 PCIe 3 lanes

So with both the CPU would run the GPU and primary NVMe from the CPU, extra NVMe and expansion from the Chip Set, so your NIC (x540) would be run by the Chip set.

11900K vs 5950X is a bit wired tho, the 11900K has 8 cores 16 threads, the 5950X has 16 cores 32 threads, they are completely different CPU's with the 5950X being much faster in heavy workloads, for an 11900K equivalent from AMD would be the 5800X, Intel just like to charge silly money for the 11900K because its their halo CPU, an 11700K is actually pretty much the same CPU with slightly lower clocks.

Would the above be possible if I used an i9 10900k, I can get a really good deal on one. I could use a z490 or z590 motherboard with it, although I know there are a few caveats.

 

[noobftw]

You'll have less lanes to play with on an Intel setup so again careful hardware choices are the key.

Yes, and on the 10th Gen Intel you are also running the NVMe from the chipset lanes at the same time, and there are only 4x of them in total back to the CPU, so if the card is a X540-T2 they'd need 12x lanes to use it at full tilt, not that I expect they would need to run dual 10GbE NIC's at full duplex, but maybe one of them.

I don't mind running my NVME off the Chipset, I'm sure my 970 Evo, which is far from the fastest anymore, will still max out, and i could replace the current NIC with an x550-t2, which only needs x 4 Lanes. What do you think?

Thanks for the help btw

 

[noobftw]

I don't mind running my NVME off the Chipset, I'm sure my 970 Evo, which is far from the fastest anymore, will still max out, and i could replace the current NIC with an x550-t2, which only needs x 4 Lanes. What do you think?

Thanks for the help btw