Re:PCIe 8.0 Announced by the PCI-Sig Will Double Throughput ...
by vladvasiliu on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:40PM
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How high-end are we talking about? Do you know off-hand of any models supporting this?
I haven't seen such features on boards under 200 EUR, from Asus, Asrock and Gigabyte.
The thing is, if I have to splurge for some 400 EUR "gaming" model, I might as well move to a "workstation" CPU supporting more lanes out of the box, and the mobo will be priced roughly the same.
You can also buy external PCIe switches (just make sure you're not accidentally buying a PCIe bifurcation device). Most of the time it's cheaper to just buy the higher end motherboard though, e.g. I don't want to know what price "Request a quote" for this PCIe switch which can do x8 4.0 upstream and then quad 4x 3.0 downstream https://www.amfeltec.com/pci-express-gen-4-carrier-board-for... is. I do have a few 3.0 era cards which were more reasonably priced though https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256801702762036.html?gateway... and they've worked well for me.