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View submission: Simple Questions - November 30, 2020
Okay, can anyone explain PCIe lanes to me? I'm looking at this graphic[1] and I'm a bit confused. From what I understand, I get 24 PCIe lanes from my CPU right? 16 of those would go to my GPU and 4 will be going to my NVME drive on my primary m.2 slot, the other 4 will go to the chipset? Where are the 10 flexible lanes coming from? Can I use those as well in addition to the 4 extra from the CPU? SATA ports take up 4 lanes as well?
Sorry for the wall of questions, but I just want to make sure I have this right
Comment by MagorTuga at 30/11/2020 at 18:44 UTC
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Short answer: It doesn't matter to average users.
All you need to know is that is that you get PCIe Gen 4 for NVMe SSDs and you support all new high end graphics cards, so long as you have a power supply with enouh juice and cables for them.
What exactly do you intend to do that you'll "use those as well"?
