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.

I’m glad we are finally getting the next gen featureset. The game truly looks incredible.

For the fps that are being delivered, i really do not think the game is that good looking. Maybe its different tastes but the game looks unoptimized given the performance vs graphics.