[SOLVED] Do i have enought lines for a SLI GPU Setup.

[R3n3g4D0]

Hi,
My current pc has a I9 9900K CPU, a RTX 2080 GPU and 2 NVME SSD units.

As far as i understant an I9 9900k contains 16 pci lines. The graphic card is using 8 and each NVME SSD is using 4x, so i would be using all the lines.

Could i add a second RTX 2080 considering that it would need 8x more lines?

Thanks

 

[boju]

24 lanes total. 16 from cpu which the graphics card uses and additional 8 lanes via the motherboard chipset for your ssds (x4 lanes each) totalling x8 lanes. Your graphics card is using all 16 lanes from the cpu.

Two gpus will run at 8x each. Though these days sli isn't so popular.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Could i add a second RTX 2080 considering that it would need 8x more lines?

This depends on motherboard entirely. You have not shared motherboard model info with us.

 

[R3n3g4D0]

its a z390 msi gaming pro carbon ac motherboard

 

[TJ Hooker]

Yes, you can run two cards in SLI at x8/x8 and it will not be impacted by your NVMe drives. But as said above, SLI is dying out.