FlangeMonkey
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2010
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Hi Guys,
I feel this is a daft question, but I'm stuck in a loop on this and need some help getting out of it.
I'm wanting the most flexibility in expansion and performance. Ultimately I intend to have the following:
Processor: 5960x
PCIe:
2x GTX 1080 (PCIe 3.0 16x)
1x 10gb ethernet (PCIe 3.0 4x)
1x M.2 950 Pro (PCIe 3.0 4x)
Total Lanes: 40
I've been looking at the Asus X99a II, MSI Carbon Pro, Asus Strix and MSI X99a Tomahawk. I'm specifically looks at future proofing myself with USB 3.1 gen 2.
The problem is most (except MSI's Tomahawk) specify in there manual shared slots that will restrict to 8x for one of the graphics cards and I feel I'm missing something with lanes, total cards in higher multiplexers of PCIe and the reasons for sharing bandwidth between slots.
Can someone please help in out on this and give some information on what I'm missing?
Thanks,
I feel this is a daft question, but I'm stuck in a loop on this and need some help getting out of it.
I'm wanting the most flexibility in expansion and performance. Ultimately I intend to have the following:
Processor: 5960x
PCIe:
2x GTX 1080 (PCIe 3.0 16x)
1x 10gb ethernet (PCIe 3.0 4x)
1x M.2 950 Pro (PCIe 3.0 4x)
Total Lanes: 40
I've been looking at the Asus X99a II, MSI Carbon Pro, Asus Strix and MSI X99a Tomahawk. I'm specifically looks at future proofing myself with USB 3.1 gen 2.
The problem is most (except MSI's Tomahawk) specify in there manual shared slots that will restrict to 8x for one of the graphics cards and I feel I'm missing something with lanes, total cards in higher multiplexers of PCIe and the reasons for sharing bandwidth between slots.
Can someone please help in out on this and give some information on what I'm missing?
Thanks,