Hello Everyone in this fantastic forum.
I've already gotten a ton of help here, but now I've run in to another question. I'm planning on building a NAS server. I want it to run Unraid as OS, but I also want a Plex Media Server running on it and probably also a website. All fine so far, then I got the idea watching Linus Tech Tips, that I could create a Windows 10 Pro VM and use that for relaxing with a game, surfing the web, photo editing and generally just workstation for my business. That's where I ran in to the issue of PCIe lanes and how they're confusing me.
An Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti will need 16 PCIe lanes to run at x16, if I understand this correctly, then a GC-Titan Ridge or a ThunderboltEX 3-TR will need an additional 4 lanes to run at x4, putting me at 20 lanes needed, not including any HBA card I might need in the future for my plan of expanding with hot-swap bays as I can afford it. I've been reading the specs on several motherboards from Gigabyte and Asus, and they all disable PCIe slots when a M.2 NVMe is installed in a certain slot and they split the one PCIe 3.0 x16 slot actually running x16 in to x8 if a certain slot is used, etc. Then add to the fact these Thunderbolt cards are only supported on certain motherboards, which all run Intel Core, which say they have support for 16 PCIe lanes. Then rewatching the Linus Tech Tips video, he said to install his Titan Ridge in the PCIe slot that's linked to the south bridge?
Can someone please dumb this down as much as humanly possible? Crayon drawing level of dumbing down if at all possible?
I've already gotten a ton of help here, but now I've run in to another question. I'm planning on building a NAS server. I want it to run Unraid as OS, but I also want a Plex Media Server running on it and probably also a website. All fine so far, then I got the idea watching Linus Tech Tips, that I could create a Windows 10 Pro VM and use that for relaxing with a game, surfing the web, photo editing and generally just workstation for my business. That's where I ran in to the issue of PCIe lanes and how they're confusing me.
An Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti will need 16 PCIe lanes to run at x16, if I understand this correctly, then a GC-Titan Ridge or a ThunderboltEX 3-TR will need an additional 4 lanes to run at x4, putting me at 20 lanes needed, not including any HBA card I might need in the future for my plan of expanding with hot-swap bays as I can afford it. I've been reading the specs on several motherboards from Gigabyte and Asus, and they all disable PCIe slots when a M.2 NVMe is installed in a certain slot and they split the one PCIe 3.0 x16 slot actually running x16 in to x8 if a certain slot is used, etc. Then add to the fact these Thunderbolt cards are only supported on certain motherboards, which all run Intel Core, which say they have support for 16 PCIe lanes. Then rewatching the Linus Tech Tips video, he said to install his Titan Ridge in the PCIe slot that's linked to the south bridge?
Can someone please dumb this down as much as humanly possible? Crayon drawing level of dumbing down if at all possible?