Are your GPU lanes cut in half? #pcbuild #gpu #nvme
159Prawn here looking at what can happen if you populate all the m.2 NVMe ports on your motherboard or if you're using a PCIe Gen 5 drive on a motherboard that supports it but at the result of reducing the GPU lanes.
In this video I'm using the MSI MAG Z790 Edge TI Max Wifi from a recent build. This motherboard offers the ability to use a Gen 5 NVME drive in the top slot, but if you do then you can only run your graphics card with x8 PCIe lanes instead of the usual x16. I thought this would be a perfect time to test the real-world difference this made so I benchmarked a few different games including Red Dead Redemption 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and 3D Mark Port Royal.
I was hoping to show what would happen in this instance. So you can see the real impact of doing this. I will note that I've also run other motherboards where I filled all the ports on the motherboard with NMVe SSDs and the same thing happened, but I also used those systems as my daily driver and didn't notice a massive difference in performance even at 1440p.
Related videos:
How to benchmark your NVMe SSD - test speeds easily https://youtu.be/m_qy7rMs2AE
Lian Li Evo RGB deep dive - https://youtu.be/c-0WW77_fM8
Lian Li O11D Evo RGB vs Evo XL vs Dynamic Evo https://youtu.be/WlMu1RzGZ4U
Lian Li TL120 LCD fans - https://youtu.be/fL4uYmJvnzc
I upgraded my Lian Li Dynamic Evo https://youtu.be/1W4kzU6574Y
I made some mistakes with this Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO build https://youtu.be/4vc2P-nnY5E
Run tests using these tools:
HWInfo64 - https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
HWMonitor - https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
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Specs of this build (Please note links listed here include affiliate links which may earn me a commission.)
Motherboard - MSI MAG Z790 Edge TI Max Wifi https://amzn.to/41yjPmh
CPU - Intel Core i9-13900K CPU https://amzn.to/3Ry7UAl
RAM - Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 16GB x 2 6200MHz (https://go.corsair.com/eKAL3Z)
NVMEs:
Corsair MP700 Pro NVMe - https://go.corsair.com/eK2g5D
Case - Lian Li O11D Evo RGB (https://youtu.be/c-0WW77_fM8)
PSU - Kolink Regulator 1000W PSU (https://youtu.be/sjEJrl294mI)
CPU Cooler - Lian Li Galahad 2 LCD SLInf https://youtu.be/Stx1ystVIWg
Fans - Lian Li TL120 and TL LCD https://youtu.be/fL4uYmJvnzc
GPU - Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti 12g OC https://youtu.be/_-bu6qDqeWA
SSDs - Crucial MX500 2TB and Crucial BX500 2TB https://youtu.be/IOJNybKZ4wk
Alternative parts:
Corsair iCue Link System and QX Fans - https://youtu.be/brWz3ADfAiA
Corsair iCue Link LCD upgrade - https://go.corsair.com/21eMez
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