Asus Maximus VIII Gene PCI-e slots

[twilightprincess05]

Hi there

I'm looking up capture cards, and have settled on an Elgato HD60 Pro - over the potential lag of their HD60S with it being USB - and I'm actually a little less knowledgeable about my motherboard -does anyone know about the amount of PCI-e slots this motherboard has (I have my 1050ti in it) and to be honest never really thought I'd need more.

I've seen people say there's three, some say there's one, some about expanding it? I know nothing about PCI-e so if people could help me out I'd be super grateful!

Thanks a ton, and please mind my ignorance (if anyone wants Photoshop help in exchange I'm your girl!)

 

[Eximo]

So you've got your GPU in the first slot. If you added a card to the second long (x16) slot you would have 8x lanes on each x16 slot. This isn't a problem. Both x16 slots run directly off the CPU. The shorter slot is 4x and runs off the PCH (chipset). All slots are PCIe 3.0.

Should be able to use all of them at once. If you have a lot of drives though some of the bandwidth may get taken away from the 4x slot, (1x or 2x mode)

The ElGato HD60 Pro can be plugged into either of the remaining slots.

2 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8, gray)
1 x PCIe 3.0 x4 (black) *1