ASUS RTX 4060 Ti with SSD slot now official A few weeks ago, ASUS revealed their concept graphics card based on the NVIDIA RTX 4060 series. This card features a customized DUAL design with a unique addition not typically found on gaming GPUs – an M.2 SSD slot. It’s worth mentioning that the inclusion of […]
  • benjiro3000@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    AMD should support 4x/4x/4x/4x and 8x/4x/4x on the primary slot on any AM5 CPU and I think most AM4 CPUs too regardless of MB.

    AMD is 4x/4x/4x/4x for the all desktop CPUs EXCEPT the G (laptop) series. Those are 8x/4x/4x (and always with a lower pcie version).

    AND it also depends on the motherboard manufacture because some do not implements 4x/4x/4x/4x. Forgot what board it was.

    Intel 1700 is 8x/8x for sure. Alderlake and successors are hard coded in the CPUs to this. Sucks!

    • You want great idle power consumption => Intel, but you lose ECC and 4x/4x/4x/4x bifurcation. Yes, there are workstation boards that have ECC but the price alone is, just get a PCIe card with a active lane splitter chip for NVME. Your probably cheaper.
    • You want ECC and 4x/4x/4x/4x => AMD but you eat around 15W higher power draw from the wall (chiplet issue).
    • You want low power AMD? => G series but then no ECC and only 8x/4x/4x OR you need to find the insane overpriced XX50G PRO versions for ECC support but same bifurcation issue. And the lower pcie issue will be there.

    There is no, “does it all” solution.

    • madn3ss795@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      AMD’s support depends on the motherboard. My B550 board support all 3 modes (8x/8x, 8x/4x/4x and 4x/4x/4x/4x).