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December 3rd, 2024 22:57

Precision 5810 PCI lanes, and bifurcation configurations. Need help!

I have a Precision 5810 and am stuck wondering if either ASUS Hyper m.2 V2, or ROG Hyper m.2 (supports only two m.2's and not sold individually but included with certain ASUS boards) are a good choice compared to $13 NVME adapter.  My biggest concern, is achieving the speeds advertised in a Crucial P3 Pro Gen4 m.2 SSD (2TB), but maybe even more importantly:  will my PCI-e wifi 6e adapter and GPU affect this or be affected themselves ?  I do not want to hamper my Vega56 to only 8x and although I would probably prefer better wifi-speeds over max diskspeed; at the end of the day all working optimal would be my greatest desire.  

Just to be clear, I'm going to have an E5-2697A v4, either 64 or 128 GB of DDR4 RDIMM 2400MHz, 
MSI Vega56 8GB, and a Fenvi wifi 6e pci-e adapter (ax210).  

Atm I only have one m.2 drive, however I plan on getting more.  Would the ROG Hyper m.2 (supports two only) or Hyper m.2 V2 (supports 4) by ASUS be appropriate or on par with the Dell Ultra Speed Quad-NVME
or am I going to run into problems, particularly with lanes being hampered down, or shared ?

Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated and taken openly, as I have a good penny invested and want my system running optimal.  Thanks guys!

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December 3rd, 2024 23:56

For the adapter, if you want to keep the future upgrade option open, get the Asus Hyper v.2.  You can use with just one NVMe drive for now and upgrading more, up to total of 4 NVMe drives in the future.  If you are certain that you will be happy with just 2 drives, get the ROG Hyper.  Either one are passive adapters and will provide similar performance as Dell Ultra-Speed adapter.  They do not affect the speed of the SSD.

For the NVMe SSD, Crucial P3 Gen4 will be limited by the PCIe Gen3 slot and expected max performance of 3500 MB/s.  

For PCIe lanes, your system has 40 PCIe Gen3 lanes direct to CPU, and 8 PCIe Gen2 lanes from C610 chipset.  Your graphics card is occupied on one PCIe x16 slot (CPU), that leaves the option for NVMe adapter to use the second PCIe x16 slot (CPU).  Your Wifi card uses just one lane from PCIe x1 (PCH).  You still have one empty slot of PCIe x8 (CPU), and one PCIe x4 slot (PCH).  Note that chipset (PCH) lanes are PCIe Gen2.

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December 4th, 2024 06:02

Glad to help.  Using the picture numbering, then the slot numbers ( ) are imprinted on motherboard:

#1.  It's a PCI slot for legacy (old) add-on card, don't use it for your storage upgrade.  (slot 6)

#2.  Is a PCIe x16 Gen2, wired as #4 lanes, reserved for Dell thunderbolt 2 add-in card.  (slot 5)

#3.  Is a PCIe x16 Gen3, full bandwidth, use this slot for your Asus ROG Hyper adapter (slot 4)

#4.  Is a PCIe x1 Gen2, this was suggested for your Fenvi Wifi adapter, but use #2 (slot 5) instead. 

#5.  Is a PCIe x16 Gen3, full bandwidth, mainly use for graphics card, MSI Vega 8 GB (slot 2)

#6.  Is a PCIe x16 Gen3, wired as x8 lanes, may use for future upgrade (slot 1)

Gen3 are slots connected to CPU, Gen2 are slot connected to PCH (chipset).

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December 4th, 2024 02:47

@Chino de Oro​ I ended up going with the ROG Hyper new for $45 CAD.  I figure (for now) 2 SSD's if I upgrade ought to do it.  I am picking up a cheap ($100 CAD) WD MyBook 8TB so that should suffice for extra storage needs.  Could you again explain which lanes are CPU driven and which are on-board/chipset to get a clear understanding of where to place the m.2 adapterGPU and wifi-card in this picture you provided in an older post ? I would greatly appreciate it.  Lastly, should I be concerned about the PCH lane/Gen2 ? Or will wifi be okay and communicate w/ board at full speed ?  Again, I fully appreciate your breakdown and expertise in this.


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December 16th, 2024 18:16

Perfect.  I'm going to install it, I ended up getting two Fanxiang s500 Pro 1TB's due to some issues with Crucial's pricing.  (DISCLAIMER - if using ROG Hyper, there are thermal pad/strips that may hinder provided screw - only 2mm I think - you may need a longer m2x0 screw).  I ended up borrowing two from the Hyper shield-plate and just crisscrossed it with remaining two, seems to hold ok.  Will report back later today; again, thanks for all the input! =]

Just out of curiosity, with bifurcation would the x8 lanes (slot 1) hinder the SSD's or not operate properly ?

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