Just want to make sure I understand what I'm reading and hoping someone will clarify something for me.
These are the relevant tables from the EVGA Z390 Dark manual:
PCIe Lane Distribution (All Socket 1151 processors are 16 lanes.)
PE1 – x16 (Gen3, x16 lanes from CPU, x8 shared with PE2)
PE2 – x8 (Gen3, x8 lanes from CPU, x4 shared with PE4)
PE3 – x4 (Gen3, x4 lanes from PCH)
PE4 – x4 (Gen3, x4 lanes from CPU, shares 4 of PE2’s 8 lanes)
M.2 Lane Distribution
M.2 Key-M (110mm, Top, PM1) – x4 from Z390 PCH o M.2 Enable/Disable is set within the BIOS o This M.2 Key-M slot shares lanes with the U.2 port. Installing an M.2 device will disable U.2 port PU1.
M.2 Key-M (110mm, Bottom, PM2) – x4 from Z390 PCH o M.2 Enable/Disable is set within the BIOS o This M.2 Key-M slot shares lanes with PE3. Installing an M.2 device will disable PCIe slot PE3.
M.2 Key-E (32mm) – x1 from Z390 PCH o M.2 Enable/Disable is set within the BIOS
If I put my GPU in PE1, populate both M.2 Key-M slots and then install something else in PE4 The result I am expecting is this
PE1 runs at x8 because PE 4 shares with PE2 which shares with PE1.
PE3 is disabled because it shares with M.2 slot 2.
Am I reading this correctly?
==My System== Case: Corsair CC800DW CPU: Intel Core I7-3930k @ 3.8GHz Motherboard: EVGA X79 FTW Graphics Card: 2 x EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 in SLI Memory: Corsair Dominator 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 1866 9-10-9-27 Boot Drive: Samsung 850 Pro 250GB SSD Games Drive: 2 x 450GB SATAIII 10k RPM Velociraptor in RAID 0 Power Supply: CORSAIR Professional Series RM-1000