On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:11 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My biggest thing right now, finding a mobo with plenty of PCIe slots. > They put all this new stuff, wifi and such, but remove things I do need, > PCIe slots.
PCIe and memory capacity seem to have become the way the server/workstation and consumer markets are segmented. AM5 gets you 28x v5 lanes. SP5 gets you 128x v5 lanes. The server socket also has way more memory capacity, though I couldn't quickly identify exactly how much more due to the ambiguous way in which DDR5 memory channels are referenced all over the place. Suffice it to say you can put several times as many DIMMs into a typical server motherboard, especially if you have two CPUs on it (two CPUs likewise increases the PCIe capacity). IT would be nice if there were switches out there that would let you take a v5 PCIe slot on newer consumer hardware and break it out into a bunch of v3/4 NVMe adapters (U.2, M.2, PCIe, whatever). -- Rich
