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vivster said:

JEMC said:

That's because Rocket Lake, the successor of Intel's 10th Gen Core processors, will have PCIe 4.0 support, 20 lanes, and will be compatible with the socket 1200 boards.

Basically those M.2 ports will work at PCIe 3.0 speeds with the 10900K and at 4.0 speeds with the 11900K (or whatever it's called).

Then why aren't they doing the same with the extension slots? No optional PCIe 4 there.

Because then they wouldn't have any good selling point for the new mobos that will launch with those chips.

That said, it wouldn't surprise me if some cards to have those extension slots. After all, some of AMD's X370 motherboards vendors claimed that their top PCIe 3.0 slots could actually deliver PCIe4.0, something that AMD "asked nicely" to not allow (and they didn't allow it).