Folks
There is conflicting information of the MSI website and I cannot get an answer from them, hence posting here to see if you know.
I'm a professional 3D CGI designer. I'm planning to buy the X399 Meg Creation and put the 24-core threadripper-2970 in it, with 3 (yes three) RTX 2080Ti's. With that much equipment I expect to have each card plugged into x16 slots with full use of x16 lanes. The Threadripper supports 64 lanes, so this is fine.
SITUATION: According to the MSI website the X399 Meg Creation has "FOUR x16 PCIe slots". - Great !
However, if you download and read the user manual, in the PCIE section it shows which slots you need to use for a 3-card configuration, and this config shows that only two of the slots support "x16". So I would have to configure the cards as x16 x16 x8 -- not x16 x16 x16
So Im confused
QUESTION: How many of the four PCIE slots are truly "x16 lanes" ?
Is it the case that there are four x16 physical slots but only 2 of them are x16 lanes?
There is conflicting information of the MSI website and I cannot get an answer from them, hence posting here to see if you know.
I'm a professional 3D CGI designer. I'm planning to buy the X399 Meg Creation and put the 24-core threadripper-2970 in it, with 3 (yes three) RTX 2080Ti's. With that much equipment I expect to have each card plugged into x16 slots with full use of x16 lanes. The Threadripper supports 64 lanes, so this is fine.
SITUATION: According to the MSI website the X399 Meg Creation has "FOUR x16 PCIe slots". - Great !
However, if you download and read the user manual, in the PCIE section it shows which slots you need to use for a 3-card configuration, and this config shows that only two of the slots support "x16". So I would have to configure the cards as x16 x16 x8 -- not x16 x16 x16
So Im confused
QUESTION: How many of the four PCIE slots are truly "x16 lanes" ?
Is it the case that there are four x16 physical slots but only 2 of them are x16 lanes?
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