May 20, 20206 yr I want to know if current Z490 motherboards will work with the upcoming 3080ti cards when they're released? Since the Z490 motherboards only have PCIe 3.0 slots. Will it be able to take advantage of all the new technology in the 3080ti cards? ASUS ROG Maximus Hero XII ▪︎ Intel i9-10900K ▪︎ NVIDIA RTX 3090 FE ▪︎ 64GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro ▪︎ Windows 10 Pro (21H1) ▪︎ Samsung 970 EVO Pro 1TB NVME SSD (OS Drive) ▪︎ Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SATA SSD ▪︎ Seagate 4TB SATA HDD ▪︎ Corsair RMx 850W PSU
May 20, 20206 yr 1 hour ago, captain420 said: I want to know if current Z490 motherboards will work with the upcoming 3080ti cards when they're released? Since the Z490 motherboards only have PCIe 3.0 slots. Will it be able to take advantage of all the new technology in the 3080ti cards? Yes they should be backwards compatible with pcie 3.0. You don't even come close to maxing out the bandwidth of a 3.0 slot with a 2080ti so I would not be worried, but a good majority of the z490 boards DO come with 4.0 slots and their own clock gens for them. It's only the 10 series CPU and z490 chipset that doesn't have 4.0 support, but that only matters for nvme m.2 drives at the extreme top end, not the graphics lanes. So if in a hypothetical situation the 3080ti would somehow max out a 3.0 slot when it comes out the boards that have their own 4.0 support would allow you to take advantage of 4.0 with the gpu Edited May 20, 20206 yr by Pilot53 Lian Li 011 Air Mini | AMD 9800X3D | Asus ROG STRIX B650E-F | Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer II 280mm RGB | 2x32GB G.Skill DDR5-6000 | ASUS TUF RTX 5090 | Seasonic Prime Platinum 1000W | Pimax Crystal Light
May 20, 20206 yr Author Good to know. I was worried for a second there. ASUS ROG Maximus Hero XII ▪︎ Intel i9-10900K ▪︎ NVIDIA RTX 3090 FE ▪︎ 64GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro ▪︎ Windows 10 Pro (21H1) ▪︎ Samsung 970 EVO Pro 1TB NVME SSD (OS Drive) ▪︎ Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SATA SSD ▪︎ Seagate 4TB SATA HDD ▪︎ Corsair RMx 850W PSU
May 20, 20206 yr They will definitely be backwards compatible. So no worries. 🙂 Flight Simulator's - Prepar3d V5/MSFS | Operating System - WIN 11 | Main Board - GIGABYTE X870E Aorus Elite WIFI7 | CPU - AMD 9800X3D | RAM - CORSAIR 64GB 6600Mhz | Video Card - EVGA RTX3090 FTW3 Ultra | Monitor - DELL 38" Ultrawide | Case - CORSAIR 750D Full Tower | CPU Cooling - CORSAIR H170i Elite LCD 420mm Push/Pull | Power Supply - EVGA 1000 G+ | Sound System - Definitive Technology ProMonitor 600 w/subwoofer
May 20, 20206 yr The MB not the GPU controls the lanes the Z490 will not run in 4.0 on release but could have a BIOS update for the next Intel CPU, don't expect blistering performance upgrade when they do. Raymond Fry.
May 21, 20206 yr 14 hours ago, jabloomf1230 said: The main advantage of PCIe 4.0 is that it can support more than one M.2 NVMe SSD. boards like the maximus xi hero already support two M2's at full speed. Though a couple sata ports get turned off. But if you aren't using them no big deal 5800X3D, 4090FE, 64GB DDR4 3600C16, Gigabyte X570S MB, EVO 970 M.2's, Alienware 3821DW and 2 22" monitors, Corsair RM1000x PSU, 360MM MSI MEG, MFG Crosswind, T16000M Stick, Boeing TCA Yoke/Throttle, Skalarki MCDU and FCU, Logitech Radio Panel/Switch Panel, Spad.Next
May 22, 20206 yr You will have plenty of time Q4 at the earliest possible next year and deep pockets. Raymond Fry.
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