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    Question Questions about a MB I'm looking at (ASRock Z790 PG Riptide)

    Yes - 20 lanes total, but only 16 are PCIe 5.0
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    Question Questions about a MB I'm looking at (ASRock Z790 PG Riptide)

    My setup is a little more modest, but I have 64GB of memory (I run lots of VMs). I plan to use either my PNY RTX 3060 card or just the embedded Intel for graphics. I doubt I'll use the MB heatsinks for M.2 as mine currently don't seem to fluctuate much once at operating temp (mostly Samsung Evo...
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    Question Questions about a MB I'm looking at (ASRock Z790 PG Riptide)

    No need to tell me - I just bought an ASRock PG Riptide board and i7-13700k CPU and am extremely excited o get it running. I have a new PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD (which I won't install in the M.2_5 slot to take away half the PCie bandwidth.) I have no idea whether a PCIe 4 graphics card at x8 will...
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    Question Questions about a MB I'm looking at (ASRock Z790 PG Riptide)

    The latest AMD AM5 CPUs have 24 PCIe 5.0 lanes and the latest Intel CPUs (Raptor Lake) only have 16 PCIe lanes, so there will always be more of a trade-off with Intel systems. AMD has always had more available PCIe lanes available for peripherals.