lane sharing

Hello everyone, So 9800x3d is coming and i want to upgrade on it. What i am getting confused about is with lane sharing on the motherboards with gpu and m.2 slots. I have rtx4090 and i may sell it to get 5090 when it releases, depends on the performance gap. So what i want is to be able to use...

Hey TH; just looking for some solid information regarding the new Asrock x870 Riptide board I ordered, and the possibility of it using PCI-E lane sharing from the GPU slot. The manufacturers website does not indicate any lane sharing from the GPU slot whilst using the NVME slots. Though since...

Im building a budget headless server-like machine. I currently have my eyes on an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (Matisse) CPU. And this motherboard: ASRock B550M-HDV, which has 1x Hyper M.2 (Gen4x4) socket and 1x PCI-E 4 x16 slot. Currently I only want to get a 2 TB nvme, but I might want to add more...

Kind of overwhelmed trying to figure out and understand PCI lanes. Easy to find CPU + mobo chipset lanes, but I don't get how they're taken up, shared, etc. Is there really no way to just get a report from software? Can't CPU-Z or HWinfo or something else tell me how many lanes in use? Does...

Hi guys, I did quite a serious research on motherboards and principles of their work. However, a few points are either left unclear or I just wanted to double-check them with you. Will highly appreciate your comments: Is it right, that PCIe 4.0 is not the same as PCIe x4. So 4.0 means the...