Socket 1156 PCE-E Question

[Bassman2003]

Hello,

I am looking at a computer build for my video editing computer and I am a bit confused with the 1156 socket motherboards and the PCI-E channels.

I will have only one video card but I will also populate every other slot with video editing cards and RAID cards.

My question is if the other slots are populated with any type of PCI-E card, will the main graphics card be reduced to 8X?

I have no problem going for the 1366 socket if throughput of the PCI-E slots is affected on the 1156 socket motherboards.

Thanks

 

[PCTC2]

If you get one of the 3-slot boards, the configuration they can be in are 16/0/4 or 8/8/4. Some boards, like the eVGA P55 200 series (FTW and Classified) and the Asus P7P55D WS have the NF200 bridge chip but that may add latencies you don't want.

How many PCIe cards are you going to populate the board with and what are they?

 

[Bassman2003]

Originally posted by: Bassman2003
Hello,

I will have only one video card but I will also populate every other slot with video editing cards and RAID cards.

The cards are hardware output cards and External RAID Cards.

Just wondering if the presence of another card even if it is not an SLI configuration will set the main video card down at 8X.

I would like to have 8x for the RAID card.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Just make sure you buy a processor that supports HT

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: Bassman2003

Originally posted by: Bassman2003
Hello,

I will have only one video card but I will also populate every other slot with video editing cards and RAID cards.

The cards are hardware output cards and External RAID Cards.

Just wondering if the presence of another card even if it is not an SLI configuration will set the main video card down at 8X.

I would like to have 8x for the RAID card.

If you put 3 cards in, yes, on a standard board, it would put the graphics card at 8x, the second on-die PCIe controller slot at 8x, and the P55 chipset slot is always at 4x.

 

[Bassman2003]

Thanks for your reply.

So knowing this, I should stay with an X58 chipset/socket 1366 motherboard for full a PCE-E pipeline?

 

[ilkhan]

Theres only x lanes to go around. AFAIK, any board in the second slot sets both to x8.

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: Bassman2003
Thanks for your reply.

So knowing this, I should stay with an X58 chipset/socket 1366 motherboard for full a PCE-E pipeline?

If you have 3 PCIe cards, yes. Otherwise, I doubt you would notice if your graphics card went to PCIe 8x.

 

[Bassman2003]

Sorry,

I am aware of this stuff but not an expert.

So on any motherboard chipset, if I have one graphics card and other non-video graphics cards (non-SLI setup) the presence of these other cards in the PCI-E slots will limit the graphics card to 8X?

To be obvious, I am not using an SLI setup. Only one graphics card.

I was thinking I would get one 16x slot, one 8x slot and a 4X slot and maybe a few 1x slots. (Gigabyte X58 board)

Thanks