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I think the single most frustrating thing about the decline of HEDT is that both Intel and AMD are sticking like glue to 24 lanes of PCIe on their desktop proce
by Veliladon 4y ago
I think the single most frustrating thing about the decline of HEDT is that both Intel and AMD are sticking like glue to 24 lanes of PCIe on their desktop processors. If you want multiple NVMe drives or if you want to raid NVMe you need to take PCIe lanes away from the GPU. What I really want is 36 or 40 lanes on something built with frequency in mind.
If either of them put out a flagship $600 CPU with 40 lanes of PCIe I would probably jump on it.
- rektide 4y agoI very much agree! Having a middle-ground cpu was awesome: quad channel ram, 64x pcie, attainably priced. Awesome & will be sorely missed. It'll be interesting to see if higher rev pcie (5.0, 6.0) ever start getting used in new ways. Im not sure that it makes sense to have even a flagship gaming GPU using 16x slots at 5.0. Seeing motherboards with a mix of slot sizes would be neat.