I'm picking parts for a gaming rig and wanted to have the option to get up to 2-3 GPUs all at 16x instead of having one x16 + 8x or something like that. So I was looking up what chipset I wanted and came across a chart on Wikipedia that shows that 1150 processors will only run one PCIe card at x16. When I checked what the 2011 page had to say about their best chipset could only run 2 at x16.
After reading this I recalled of the Asus x99-E WS board and that it can run FOUR cards at full x16. What, the **** am I missing here, because I'mp pretty sure the stuff i described in the paragraph above is incorrect.
On that note, I'd really appreciate an explanation for the difference between "40-Lane CPU" and "26-Lane CPU". I read on another forum post that it's how the CPU and GPU(s) communicate but I'm still kind of hazy on the details of how that actually effects the GPU(s) performance when you have too many cards and they start bottlenecking (if that's even correct).
Thanks!
After reading this I recalled of the Asus x99-E WS board and that it can run FOUR cards at full x16. What, the **** am I missing here, because I'mp pretty sure the stuff i described in the paragraph above is incorrect.
On that note, I'd really appreciate an explanation for the difference between "40-Lane CPU" and "26-Lane CPU". I read on another forum post that it's how the CPU and GPU(s) communicate but I'm still kind of hazy on the details of how that actually effects the GPU(s) performance when you have too many cards and they start bottlenecking (if that's even correct).
Thanks!