How many PCI-E slots are you using and what's in them?

Grumbledook

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When I built my first PC back in the 90s, motherboards had lots of a combination of PCI and ISA slots and nearly everything had to be installed via an addon card. Graphics (separate 2d and 3d cards even), sound, networking etc.

Looking at motherboards now, so many features are integrated and there tends to be less slots on most motherboards. Often it seems a lot of them share bandwidth with another feature on the board or with other slots as well.

I'm just wondering how many slots people are using on their motherboard and what do you have installed in those slots. I'm guessing the majority just use the x16 top slot for a GPU?

I've got a capture card in my current one as well, just considering if there's anything further I might want to add in the future.
 
hdpcgamer said:
Yeah, I agree that the M.2 slots can be handy but do you really need that many?

I have a 1TB nvme for Windows 11, a 2TB SSD for games and an 8TB HDD network drive for movies and general storage I find that it is more than enough for my needs.
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I like to have separate ones for video editing and 3D modelling, can see moving these onto NVME drives as prices keep falling and motherboards can accommodate more.
 
Rroff said:
On this PC 3070FE, Creative AE-5 sound card, Intel NIC, NVME adaptor as there is no native support for it on X79, interface for my power monitor.

Nice thing about the X79 platform it has 40 PCI-e lanes from the CPU and some additional ones from the chipset.
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Most filled so far!

What's a power monitor? Name sounds pretty descriptive but I'm not certain...
 
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