pcie lanes problem?

[thenoclueman]

I'm buying a new pc atm and I want to go for i7-7740x but it only has 16 pcie lanes and I'm going to buy a 1080ti strix oc gaming which uses all of them. I also have a samsung 960evo that's pcie ssd and I want to know if I'm going to lose out on their potential since they are "held back" by the cpu. should I get a different CPU? if so, which one? I'm using my pc purely for gaming but I have some interest in streaming and maybe recording and making videos. money is not a problem.

 

[raisonjohn]

The GPU will use PCIe lanes from the i7-7740x CPU. The M.2 will use PCIe lanes from the X299 Chipset.

 

[goldstone77]

I would suggest you wait for the 6 core Intel processors coming out in early October that will be replacing the current quad core i7 and i5 lines. 8700K and 8600K!

 

[thenoclueman]

thanks, I'll actually go with your suggestion probably goldstone but John taught me something really useful so I had to pick him as the best answer

 

[goldstone77]

thanks, I'll actually go with your suggestion probably goldstone but John taught me something really useful so I had to pick him as the best answer

Sure thing, just to add to this discussion note that PCI-E lanes coming directly from the CPU offer more performance.

 

[mdd1963]

The 7740X is the 7700K bumped up by 100 MHz and slapped into a new socket on a $400 motherboard...

Don't do it...

You can get the same gaming performance for $300 less on Z270..; take that savings, spend the difference on a 1080Ti!