Quote from: JayDDee on Today at 04:49:42 PM

Quote from: VRMdude on Today at 02:06:10 PM

I used a splitter because with an M2 NVME installed it cut down available lanes and solved the problem quickly avoiding any more down time but the M2 NVME makes compiling drivers so quick i can do in an hour what used to take all day when testing driver versions....

It makes sense to use NVME for a test rig but a production rig would be better to use SATA to free up
PCIe lanes for GPUs.

Mobos with more features that aren't needed for mining like Bluetooth, high speed USB, extra SATA ports, Wifi, NVME, etc,
will have fewer lanes avalable for the PCIe slots.

In the case of a budget CPU like Celeron or Pentium, it may not supply enough PCIe lanes to serve all the slots
at once.

Check the mobo and CPU specs before buying.

I dont disagree with this at all other than to say my own situation is not a production environment so im going to solve my headache with a splitter and put my feet up for a bit to restore blood pressure to nominal values. At this time with so many changes and developments going on so fast in the pc world i had to just dive in to learn as reading up on it all wasnt working any more possibly as my own organic embedded processor is in need of a serious defrag and purge of all technology data files less than 32 bit in width. purism such as dont use a splitter to solve your problem is for the yoof....

Grin