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Re:All AMD ThreadRipper CPU's will have 64 PCIe Lanes by imeron on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @07:13AM (#14451594)
The newer M.2 SSDs suck up 4 lanes. That's 16 lanes for four drives, burning through all available lanes on a Kaby Lake CPU.
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Re:All AMD ThreadRipper CPU's will have 64 PCIe Lanes by masklinn on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @09:50AM (#14452458)
> burning through all available lanes on a Kaby Lake CPU.

Don't you also get something like 4x via the chipset through DMI?

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