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Cake day: October 21st, 2023

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  • Seems like I am missing something

    Yep, consumers CPU have very limited PCI lanes 16-24, the main slots (common usage graphic card ) is x16, then the cpu only have 8x lines for the rest of the stuff. Sometimes NVME or extra sata port usa some of that lines

    No matter how many slots the MB have, they going to have 4 or 6 lines for the rest of the slots. Normally when there is a extra x16 is x4 only.

    The best choice with consumer grade cpu/mb probably is buy a MB that support bifurcation in the main/16x slots. Probably not going to be cheap.

    Then probably you going to have problems if you want connect in the future a 10gb card too, if you are planning that check used Xeon/MB normally have plenty of pci lanes (check intel ark)