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>PCIe slots are becoming an endangered species on modern motherboards Except... not at all? Just about any ATX-sized motherboard is going to have a full-sized
by puzzlingcaptcha 1y ago
>PCIe slots are becoming an endangered species on modern motherboards
Except... not at all? Just about any ATX-sized motherboard is going to have a full-sized X4 slot and a small X1 slot _in addition_ to the X16 one.
And with decent audio and 2.5GBps ethernet PHY on board even those slots often sit disused.
I mean, want to test goofy hardware - go for it, no need to invent a justification.
- franga2000 1y agoExcept most motherboards I see in the wild are mATX. They're more common and cheaper in stores, also basically every pre-built comes with mATX.
- wildzzz 1y agoAny anyone actually requiring more than just a single GPU and maybe a sound card probably has some pretty specific compute needs that would require something other than a cheap pre built.
- crote 1y agoI'd say that proves the point, doesn't it? Those Gen3 x1 slots are limited to 7.88Gbps so they are pretty pointless for anything beyond a sound card, and you only get a single Gen4 x4 slot. All the other x4 connections are taken up by M.2! Want to add a capture card and a HBA? Not enough slots. Want to add a capture card and a 10G/25G NIC? Not enough slots. Want to add a capture card and a USB-C expansion card? Not enough slots.
- wtallis 1y ago> Those Gen3 x1 slots are limited to 7.88Gbps so they are pretty pointless This reviewer tested the M.2 capture card with two 1080p60 signals that have a data rate of 3.2Gbps each, so a PCIe gen3 x1 slot would have been plenty of bandwidth for this use case (but not for capturing at 4k). Don't make the mistake of believing that a device which has lots of PCIe lanes actually needs all of them active to fulfill its purpose and be useful.