> I'd go as far to claim that it's almost impossible to mis-assemble. You may still need to know how to read the fine MB manual to not leave performance on the

> I'd go as far to claim that it's almost impossible to mis-assemble. You may still need to know how to read the fine MB manual to not leave performance on the table (which is what you're trying to solve in the first place). I don't know how brand-spanking-new motherboards are; I remember that around the time when Intel's 8-9th gen core CPUs were all the rage, they had a ridiculously low number of PCIe lanes, even though some motherboards came with multiple 16x sized PCIe ports. Only one actually had the 16 lanes, the others had at best 4. You may or may not care about this, but seeing how OP talks about GPUs, he may.