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[Pemalite]

Captain_Yuri said:

Pemalite said:

I think they are going to bifurcate PCI-E. PCI-E 4.0 unless you have that secondary chip which enables PCI-E 5.0 links.
I think one chipset will have PCI-E 5.0 for the SSD or GPU, but not both at the same time if I recall.

Not exactly the most elegant of solutions.

Certainly would be interesting if that's the reason although I'd prefer just having as many lanes as possible going directly to the CPU instead of going through a chipset.

Requires allot of motherboard traces and layers in order to route allot of PCI-E lanes.

And the other issue that PCI-E is starting to suffer from is signal attenuation, the faster you make a PCI-E lane, the less tolerances they have... So we need repeaters/chipsets closer to the ports themselves.

Conversely... Not all PCI-E Communication is between the CPU and PCI-E devices anyway, so there is less of a need to push all those lanes onto the CPU.