Hi
I was hoping someone could help clarify for me about the limitations of my motherboards PCI express lanes as I am about to install a 10gbe Intel x540-t2 card in it but I have other components which are taking up pci lanes and I am a bit concerned that I am about to run into some issues.
I am basically upgrading my current Synology server from the DS918+ to the DS1819+ in order to advantage the 10gbe capability on the DS1819+. I have just bought a couple of Intel x540-T2 cards off ebay, one for my windows 10 PC and the other to go in the DS1819+. The cards are listed on the synology site as compatible with the NAS. The Intel x540 cards are PCIe version 2.1 X8.
My PC specs are:
Asus mATX Z370 board that has 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (x16 or dual x8) and 2 x PCIe 3.0 x1 slots.
ROG STRIX Z370-G GAMING | Motherboards | ASUS Global
CPU is intel 8th Gen Core i5 8500 The intel Ark shows this CPU as having Max number of 16 PCI Express lanes.
Intel® Core™ i5-8500 Processor (9M Cache, up to 4.10 GHz) Product Specifications
Graphics card Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti KalmX silent card
Sound Card Creative Labs Sound blaster X-Fi PCie x1 card
The first x16 slot in my board is populated with the pcie 3.0 GFX card.
The second is a pci express x1 slot but not being used as its being blocked by the double width gfx card.
The third slot is a pci express x16 slot currently not being used - and I intend to install the Intel x540 into that.
The fourth slot is a pci express x1 slot populated with my sound card.
Now my understanding is that if the two x16 slots are being used then they will both run at x8 speed, therefore my graphics card will run at x8 speed and the Intel x540 card will run at x8 speed, and that is fine because I don't game on my PC but I am only using the graphics card in order to run a 4k monitor to watch 4k content.
So the Intel Ark website shows my CPU only supports max of x16 PCI express lanes. So if x8 is used for the GFX card and another x8 is used for the Intel x540 that equals 16 and therefore does that mean I can no longer use my x1 sound card because I have exceeded the number of supported PCI express lanes of 16?
I was hoping someone could help clarify for me about the limitations of my motherboards PCI express lanes as I am about to install a 10gbe Intel x540-t2 card in it but I have other components which are taking up pci lanes and I am a bit concerned that I am about to run into some issues.
I am basically upgrading my current Synology server from the DS918+ to the DS1819+ in order to advantage the 10gbe capability on the DS1819+. I have just bought a couple of Intel x540-T2 cards off ebay, one for my windows 10 PC and the other to go in the DS1819+. The cards are listed on the synology site as compatible with the NAS. The Intel x540 cards are PCIe version 2.1 X8.
My PC specs are:
Asus mATX Z370 board that has 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (x16 or dual x8) and 2 x PCIe 3.0 x1 slots.
ROG STRIX Z370-G GAMING | Motherboards | ASUS Global
CPU is intel 8th Gen Core i5 8500 The intel Ark shows this CPU as having Max number of 16 PCI Express lanes.
Intel® Core™ i5-8500 Processor (9M Cache, up to 4.10 GHz) Product Specifications
Graphics card Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti KalmX silent card
Sound Card Creative Labs Sound blaster X-Fi PCie x1 card
The first x16 slot in my board is populated with the pcie 3.0 GFX card.
The second is a pci express x1 slot but not being used as its being blocked by the double width gfx card.
The third slot is a pci express x16 slot currently not being used - and I intend to install the Intel x540 into that.
The fourth slot is a pci express x1 slot populated with my sound card.
Now my understanding is that if the two x16 slots are being used then they will both run at x8 speed, therefore my graphics card will run at x8 speed and the Intel x540 card will run at x8 speed, and that is fine because I don't game on my PC but I am only using the graphics card in order to run a 4k monitor to watch 4k content.
So the Intel Ark website shows my CPU only supports max of x16 PCI express lanes. So if x8 is used for the GFX card and another x8 is used for the Intel x540 that equals 16 and therefore does that mean I can no longer use my x1 sound card because I have exceeded the number of supported PCI express lanes of 16?