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Everything`s arrived and all in good shape, looks like I`ll be busy soon

Looks good Brian. Now, get to work!

Put that puzzle together

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Can someone explain to me about the PCI lanes the i7 4790K CPU has? From what it states on Intel Ark If you add a x 16 Graphics card and a x4 Audio card there are not enough lanes? Is that true or am I misunderstanding this?
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So if I slapped a graphics card in with a sound card would they both work or would one or the other be crippled?. Seems like there should be more than 16 lanes??

Indianatone said:

Can someone explain to me about the PCI lanes the i7 4790K CPU has? From what it states on Intel Ark If you add a x 16 Graphics card and a x4 Audio card there are not enough lanes? Is that true or am I misunderstanding this?
ARK | Intel® Coreâ

So if I slapped a graphics card in with a sound card would they both work or would one or the other be crippled?. Seems like there should be more than 16 lanes??

They should both work. The lanes are within the chipset not the CPU. I will try to find some info to link to explain further

Actually, the CPU has 16 PCIe lanes. If you ran the GPU in the white x16 long and the sound card in the red x16 long lanes, you would throttle your GPU to x8. The x1 slots and the bottom black slot (x4) get their lanes from the chipset. Running the sound card in one of them shouldn't throttle the GPU. Check your manual to be sure.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Actually, the CPU has 16 PCIe lanes. If you ran the GPU in the white x16 long and the sound card in the red x16 long lanes, you would throttle your GPU to x8. The x1 slots and the bottom black slot (x4) get their lanes from the chipset. Running the sound card in one of them shouldn't throttle the GPU. Check your manual to be sure.

Thank you Lady F, that's what I was trying to say. The manual will explain it.

Well I got most everything assembled... still lacking Ram and GPU but I updated the first post
Partial build started
Lots of fun :)

ThrashZone said:

Well I got most everything assembled... still lacking Ram and GPU but I updated the first post
Partial build started
Lots of fun :)

looking good, I did a delid last week and brought new life to my own rig.