PCIe Lanes

[Dogfood09]

Hi Guys,

I`m thinking about getting a 10gb network card to link up to my qnap server , I have heard that the ethernet card i need to get will use 4 lanes , how will this effect the overall performance of system

RIG:

Aorus Master Mobo
9900k CPU
2080ti GPU
samsung pro m.2 nvme SSD
WD Blue SSD x2
Corsair h100i Platinum RGB cooler
Corsair 32gb 3200mhz RGB Vengeance RAM

 

[LuckyBenski]

Apparently the PCIe x4 slot shares bandwidth with the M2P connector. If you're using that, it will only get 2 lanes. Otherwise would work fine.

Alternately you could put it in the x8 connector, then your graphics cards will drop down to x8 lanes rather than x16. In reality that's a small performance hit, worth looking up benchmark results.