PCIE

I'm building a homelab which will run Proxmox. It will have a couple of VMs: TrueNAS and a plain Linux host with some Docker containers including a media server. I plan to use an i5-12400 for this for its QSV capability but I'm having issues understanding PCIe lanes and potential expansion for...

I am going to be building an ITX build, and for the first time looking at cases that require a GPU riser. I have always been hesitant to use them because they are another point of failure in your build, and I have seen a TON of people having issues with them over the years. Have we gotten to a...

Hi guys, Hoping to get some second opinions on powering an RTX 4070S in my system please. I'll keep it short. Current specs: - Ryzen 5700X3D, cooled by Arctic LF III 280 - 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200MHz - Palit GamingPro RTX 3070 8GB, undervolted + OC - MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus - 2x...

I have a system from around 2007 with a Radeon Xpress 200 chipset. I want to find out what the fastest storage is that it can use. It has PCIe 1.0 and SATA II. Currently, I have a SATA III SSD in it, but the slot is limited to 300 MB/s instead of 600 MB/s which the SSD is capable of. According...

I am using an Asrock B660M-ITX/ac motherboard. I have 4 SATA SSDs, 1 NVMe SSD. Nic is Intel(R) 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port. Also has an onboard Intel I219-V nic. It's a homelab esxi. From my understanding. the 82559 nic takes 8 chipset PCIe lanes. What gen though? Each SATA takes 1. But what...

I am using MSI B550 gaming plus motherboard. The problem is the M.2 slot 1 doesn't detect SSD when tested with Ryzen 5600, 5600x and 5700x processor. But the M.2 slot 2 is working fine with these processors. But when I tested with Ryzen 5600G processor both the M.2 slots are working fine. M.2...

Good day all, I am hoping to gain some insight over an upgrade path for gaming. I am upgrading to an i5 14600KF and pairing it with the following board: https://www.asus.com/za/motherboards-components/motherboards/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-b760-plus-wifi-d4/ The components are still on their way...

So I am starting a new build with an RTX 5080 GPU. I bought the X870E mobo + Ryzen 9800X3D combo from Newegg and I am trying to make sure I have the NVMe situation correct. I am wanting to run the 5080 GPU with all 16 lanes and at least one NVMe 5.0, if not two. Do I have the gist of it or...

I might be overthinking this, but I wanted to get your thoughts on whether I might have caused any short-term or long-term issues. I recently purchased a brand-new ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC Edition. While removing the GPU from the PCIe slot to access some cables behind it, I made a mistake...

Hey everyone. GPU servers are prohibitively expensive and way beyond my budget. However, I'm eager to achieve the local deployment of the Llama LLM. So, I had to come up with an alternative solution. I've designed a GPU expansion board with PCIe 4.0. The distance between the 2 slots is a...

Hi, I can't seem to find anywhere if an M.2 is inserted on the first slot (the one advertised as Gen 5) will reduce the number of lanes available to the first PCIe 4.0. It's currently running at PCIe 4.0 X16 with my 4080 and I don't want to loose performance. Any help is appreciated.

Has anyone have any idea how can I switch their pcie speed slots as I want my RTX 3060 laptop gpu on the x16 3.0 I just saw their differences using GPU-Z May laptop is a: Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ACH6 82K201DVPH Ryzen 7 5800h RTX 3060

So this morning I needed to do some adjustment on my PC and I noticed something that mad me realize I connected, at least I think I did, to the wrong slots on the motherboard and gpu. As you can see on the picture, this is an RM750e and you can see the slots for PCIe/CPU. I’m assuming the one on...

Hi everyone, I have the Gigabyte Z270 gaming k3 motherboard and I want to install a second NVMe SSD (the Samsung 980 in particular). My PC components: I5 7600k rx 5700xt 32 Gb of DDR4 3200Mhz 256 Gb of M.2 1T HDD I know my CPU can handle up to 16 PCIe lanes, and I already have a GPU that uses...

After a ton of research I am inclined to go with the Samsung 2TB Pro NVMe as a replacement for my current 512GB EVO NVMe. This is to accomodate any potential upgrade to my CPU and Motherboard in the next year or two. I am aware of the 'health decline' issue but assume this has been resolved with...

Hello, I have a problem with the Archer T4e and Archer T5e network adapter, brand TPLink AC1200, I connect it to my Gigabyte B560M DS3H V2 motherboard and neither of them works, the problem is that the Archert T5e is dual ban and has wifi and bluetooth, the strange thing is that the bluetooth of...

Hi everyone, I built my PC in february 2021 with a ryzen 5 2600 (CPU), Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Windforce OC 4G (GPU) and ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming (mobo). I want to upgrade to a (2nd hand) ASUS ROG Strix RX 5500 XT 8G GAMING OC as it offers better performance, and because I want to...

So I would like to know does molex riser pcie consume power only from 12v and 5 v is for show or does it use /need/require both to be plugged in? I intend to retrofit a very expensive Silverstone modular 1300R PSU who's voltage has weakened on 5v compartment but 12v is perfect. The PSU will be...

Hi all, this one is a bit of a doozy. I've posted it on reddit but figured it best to spread a wide net to hopefully find a solution the problem that has been plaguing me since the morning of the 21st of July. I'm still trudging through possible fixes myself but I'd be really grateful to get...

I need Help With adding a PCIe 4.0 NVME M2 SSD 4 TB on MSI Z87-G45 MB with a PCIe 4.0 adaptor Card inserted into a PCI 3.0 x16 slot. UEFI shows as unknown vendor and unknown device. I do not know if this is possible with my motherboard and I7-4770. I only want to drive for storage. MBD: MSI...

Hello fellow members of the community! I've been having an issue recently with shoddy performance, namely some stutters and very low 1% lows in some easy to run titles. I have an old GTX 970 paired with an I7 4790. In trying to figure out the culprit, one of my hypothesis was that the GPU could...

Hello everyone, My PC is 4 years old and had been working perfectly until about 5 months ago. All games I play started micro stuttering occasionally (while fps is the same), especially when something new happens. I've tried almost everything and nothing helped but I have a lead. CPU-Z shows...

Essentially I am considering upgrading from RTX 3090 to RTX 4090; however I have only two 8-pin PCIe cables plugged into my PSU (Corsair HX1200 80 PLUS PLATINUM). I assumed since each cable can handle 288W, for a total of 576W, I could just use them without needing to install new power cables...

I have an Asus P6X58D-E motherboard with standard bios (0803). Will an M.2 NVMe SSD via a PCIe slot work ? I don't want to boot from it, I just need it for storage, and I'm not keen on modding the bios. I'm asking because I had read something about the board not supporting NVMe SSDs, but my...

Hi all, I recently started dabbling with old PC hardware as I find it all quite interesting. For the purposes of testing old AGP and PCI cards, I thought I’d get a test bench together with an older motherboard. I then discovered ASRock made weird motherboards that had AGP, PCI, and PCIe slots...

I have an MSI B550 Tomahawk paired with a Ryzen 5900X which supports 24 lanes. I have a 4080 in my PCIe 4 x16 and 2 gen 4 NVMe SSDs in both my x4 slots. This makes 24 lanes right? The thing is, I also have a WiFi card in one of the x1 slots at the bottom... Will the WiFi card now not work or...

I just built a new pc and I was wondering how many pci cables should I use to power the rtx 4080? On my old pc I used the same 4080 and I was using 3 individual pci cables to plug into the adapter that came with the 4080. Now I’m using just two, is that fine or should I use 3 individual cables?

Hello, i bought UGREEN Adapter PCIe 4.0 x16 do M.2 M-Key NVMe and Lexar 2TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe NM790, inserted this in one of slot in Dell T5810, updated BIOS to A33, and I tried most of the solutions from the internet and still the drive does not show up in “my computer". In the device manager...

Laptop model: Medion Erazer Deputy P25 Hi! I need help figuring out why my laptop is running everything on PCIe 3.0 when it should be PCIe 4.0. Even on the site that has the full review of my laptop (link below) it says on their CPU-Z screenshots that it's PCIe 4.0 but when I checked using the...

Hi, so I have 2 identical Samsung 980 Pro SSD 1TB in my system. One in the M2_1 port and one in the M2_3 port. The motherboard is a Meg Unify x570. The SSD in the M2_3 port is much slower than the one in the M2_1 port. M2_1: vs. M2_3: When I check with HWiNFO, I can see the current link...

I've been spending the last couple of days struggling to install an IEEE 1394 firewire card (this is the exact one: https://a.co/d/0uTo1xx). I put it into the PCIe express slot (I don't have another one besides the one for my graphics card, so I can't try other slots), and the computer fails...

I have the GIGABYTE B450M DS3H with a Ryzen 5 3600 processor and want to install an Asus Hyper 4x M.2 expansion card. Before buying the expansion card I went to Google and found the manual of my motherboard (page 16) which clearly states that PCIe bifurcation is supported, however, now that...

My current build is: i7-12700 MSI Mortar B660M HGC Antec 850W 4 x 8GB RAM GTX 1660 Ti I was thinking about an upgrade for my graphic card and I decided that I would get the Intel Arc A750 but the thing is that although I have a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, it is blocked because the mobo is small and the...

Issues that were both working prior to this: No sound coming from 3.5mm MoBo and Front Panel. (only got sound if I use the monitor speaker via HDMI to GPU) Bluetooth PCIe card not being detected by MoBo MoBo : Gigabyte B450 AORUS M Bluetooth PCIe card : Asus PCE-AX3000 I have reset the PC...

Hello! Recently bought an older i7-6700k and Asus Maximus VIII Ranger combo from my friend. It was working fine when he sold it. I just can’t get the computer to boot with ANYTHING in any of the 2 full PCI-E slots. It just goes into a bootloop. If I remove my GPU and plug display into MOBO it...

So I was thinking of getting a Corsair RM750x 750W 2021 version as my PSU as I have heard good things about it. My chosen motherboard would be Asus ROG STRIX B650-A Gaming and GPU a PNY VERTO OC RTX 4080 Super. This is my first time having a GPU that requires more than one PCIe connection...

Dear Internet, I have recently purchased a radeon rx 6800 and was looking to put it to work. However I missed one detail. I have a sufficient psu with two 12 pin pcie slots, one already in use for my current GPU and connected by a 8 to 12 pin male cable. The 6800 has two eight pin slots...

I have a couple of questions about the ASUS Hyper M.2 Gen5 PCIE-to-M2 storage adapter card that I wasn't able to figure out from the spec sheet and documentation. This card has a 6-pin auxiliary power input socket (same as some graphics cards) and I can't figure out when you actually need to...

How to check if motherboard is killing video cards? I checked the connectors with a digital multimeter because I had a video card a 760 that came in that didn't work with a graphical glitches in BIOS and startup and gave me a code 43, and actually similar glitches to a r9 290x that died on that...

Having some problems getting optimum video performance. R9 5900X / 32GB DDR4-3200 / RTX3060ti. My 60hz display limits me to 60 FPS, but I can't even maintain that. Usually around 50-52. I'm getting some minor tearing on certain screen refreshes even at that. Have two SN570s in primary and...