motherboard pcie slots

cisgeo · Sep 17, 2014

i have a quaestion about pci slot of a motherboard. my motherboard is asus z87-ws. it has 4 pcie 3/2 x 16. but i dont know what does this mean? (dual x16 or x16/x8/x8 or quad x8) can anyone help me?

prit87 · Sep 17, 2014

Read this you will get detailed information with pictures of PCIE slots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

smackers_12 · Sep 17, 2014

PCI x16 is the full size pci-e slot, there are both electrical and physical specs. Dual x16 means that if you have x16 (full length) cards in the two slots they will both run at x 16 speed. x16/x8/x8 means that if you have 3 x16 cards in these slots, one (probably the first one)( will run at x16 and the other two at x8 speed. quad x8 means that if you have 4 x16 cards in the slots they will all run at x8 speeds. Although they are all x16 size they wont necessarily run at x16 speed. If you are going to run quad sli you are probably better off going with an x series chipset (x79 or x99) as they offer more pci-e lanes.

cisgeo · Sep 17, 2014

no i wont run quad sli or crosfire. my question i that if i put 4 cards one is the gpu 2x16 the other is pci raid controler 3x8 the other pci ssd 2x8 and one card 3x16. it all card will be run at full speed or some card will run at lower speed?

Wolfshadw · Sep 17, 2014

It doesn't matter what cards are installed. It only matters if the expansion slots are populated. If you have an expansion card installed in each of the PCI-Ex16 slots, then each slot will run at x8 speeds.

-Wolf sends

smackers_12 · Sep 17, 2014

if you have four cards they will all run at x8 speed

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