Hello,
I'm slightly confused on the whole Ivy Bridge PCI-E 3.0 support and the 16 lane maximum, so I had a few questions.
If I run two graphics card with PCI-Express 3.0 at x16 each, will the processor only accept x8 from each card? If this is true, there would be no point in getting a motherboard such as http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131822 which supports x16 each lane in PCI-Express 3.0, when running SLI or CrossfireX. It would make more sense to get something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131821 which supports x8 each lane in PCI-Express 3.0 (for a total of 16 lanes for the processor, which is the cap for the processor).
In addition, what if I added a sound card to a PCI-E x1 slot? Does that take up a lane to the processor and thus only only allowing 15 lanes for the GPU's?
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm slightly confused on the whole Ivy Bridge PCI-E 3.0 support and the 16 lane maximum, so I had a few questions.
If I run two graphics card with PCI-Express 3.0 at x16 each, will the processor only accept x8 from each card? If this is true, there would be no point in getting a motherboard such as http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131822 which supports x16 each lane in PCI-Express 3.0, when running SLI or CrossfireX. It would make more sense to get something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131821 which supports x8 each lane in PCI-Express 3.0 (for a total of 16 lanes for the processor, which is the cap for the processor).
In addition, what if I added a sound card to a PCI-E x1 slot? Does that take up a lane to the processor and thus only only allowing 15 lanes for the GPU's?
Any help would be appreciated.