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think i will stick with my 1080TI for another year or two. I do this every year look at what is available then decide to just stick with what I have.

i have been looking at getting a 1440p monitor.

12GB VRAM vs 24GB VRAM thou

Personally, I don't see upgrading to GPU with 12GB as worth it when a 1080TI has 11GB VRAM. The only path I see if either a 3090 or 4090 Or whatever the equivalent is for AMD. If I am going to upgrade from a 1080TI, it needs to be a worthy Upgrade that will last me a good few years.

i am kind of looking for a bit a future-proofing pick up a GPU that will last me 4-5 years. Been looking at used 3090 just to see where the average price is and here in the it £700-850

Processor: i5 10600K @ 4.8 GHz. Motherboard: Gigabyte z490 Aorus Pro AX. RAM: Patriot Viper Steel Series DDR4 64GB (4x16GB) @3600MHz. GPU: Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080Ti 11GB. OS (Windows 10): Kingston HyperX Fury 120gb. Steam Drive: Samsung 850 EVO 256GB (Steam). Game Drive: WD Black SN770 M.2 2TB...

What would be a good Upgrade for a 1080TI?

na it's fine; it's in and working. just not the way I was expecting to work. It was such a pain in the arse to get the thing in I am not going to pull it out now.

I could get something like this Sabrent NVMe M.2 SSD to PCIe X16/X8/X4 Card with aluminium heat sink (EC-PCIE) and run it off a PCIe slot but it was such a faff to get the M.2 Socket in I ain't going to pull it out now.

I think that applies to 500 Series, not the 400 Series

The manual seems to indicate, "(Note) The M.2 connector is reserved only. No functionalities." but a bios update added functionality with 11th Gen CPU. I could be totally wrong in my understanding thou

my CPU is 10600k so as far as I am aware the M2B_CPU is only usable with an 11th gen CPU

I did. I did some testing If I disable port 1 in BIOS the NVME shows up, but the mech drive doesn't. If I re-enable Port 1, NVME is Disabled and Mech drive shows up So It is obvious the M2A_SB is sharing bandwidth with the SATA even though the NVME is PCIe. The only thing I think is...

Update - - - I have updated the BIOS to the latest version, and SATA Port 1 is still disabled so I guess I was wrong in my understanding of how the two M.2 sockets functioned alongside the SATA Ports.

I have not updated the BIOS since I brought the motherboard back in 2020.