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four NVMe drives in M.2 slots, all four Gen5 (drives B and C share lanes with x16 slot and drop it to x8 for GPU, as mentioned above) Here’s the skinny. You lose little useful functionality by trading aspirations down from full-blown Taichi to the Lite version. Sensibly introducing this series some time after X670E / Z790 Taichi and Carrara have had their fill, I’d steer value-conscious punters in this direction.
Long story short: If you want PCIe x16 gen 5 you will have no other choice than a "E" chipset, simply because you are already using a last gen top end GPU and I doubt that you will want to forgo the option to use a next gen PCIe gen 5 GPU in 2-3 years time. Across the bottom of the board are several exposed headers. You’ll find the usual, including additional USB ports, RGB headers, and more. Below is a complete list from left to right. It's not about gaming here, of course, but displaying images on better monitors for whatever productivity workloads. I prefer to have a better HDMI port than worse one. After all, 99% of GPUs have only one HDMI 2.1 FRL port, and that one is often used for 4K TV and other display. So, having another capable HDMI 2.1 port for on-board graphics is always welcomed rather than not having it.
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Please help me choose a B650 board. I will use a 7950X or 7900X cpu. I will use the computer for gaming, 3D design, 3D rendering, movie editing. I will use one or two M.2 drives and one or two ssd or hdd drive for large storage. Maybe a internal sound card. But if one wants to be able to hit the ground running with Gen5 M.2 SSDs, without having to wait for improved M.2 cooler solutions and/or without having to rethink the entire rig cooling in use, then there are as mentioned already some motherboards to consider.
RAID 0 and 1 are supported for NVMe and SATA drives. The NVMe drives can run in RAID 10 mode if you use an NVMe expansion card to mount a fourth drive, but that requires giving up the graphics slot or using the much slower 3.0 x4 slot. Jan 20th 2023 PSA: Intel I226-V 2.5GbE on Raptor Lake Motherboards Has a Connection Drop Issue: No Fix Available (203)Out of four M.2 slots, M.2_3 shares the bandwidth with PCIe x16_1, which would run in x8 mode if M.2_3 is installed. So, one drive less there. NVME RAID x4 is also a very expensive add-on solution. Such card with four M.2 drives installed will cost a lot of money, in addition to total system costs. Hyper NVMe RAID add-in card with four NVMe drives can only be supported in PCIe x16 slot 1, as shown below. This will run in x8 Gen5 mode It'll never happen of course. The reasons are obvious. Money, profits and margins. Motherboard makers want you to buy more expensive boards. Capitalism! Yay. Office Suite (Office 365), Video Editing (Premiere Pro 22.6.2.2), Photo Editing (Photoshop 23.5.1, Lightroom Classic 11.5)
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