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    Question allocation of pcie lanes on x299 motherboard for skylake-x cascade lake-x

    Update: the asrock tech support said: slots 1 and 3 are shared (x8x8) if co-existed. slots 4 and 5 are shared (x8x8) if co-existed. if using two full x16 pcie slots with x16 lanes each, use slot1,slot5 slot7 is always x8. with 48 lane cpu, the rules are same (looks like you don't get to use...
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    Question allocation of pcie lanes on x299 motherboard for skylake-x cascade lake-x

    Please help. I have an asrock x299 oc formula motherboard which I use as a workstation for my job and I am upgrading to either core i9 9980xe (skylake 44 pcie lanes) or 10980 (cascade lake 48 pcie lanes) cpu. The motherboard originally was built when 7th gen cpus were being sold. The layout...