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System Name | Silicon Graphics O2 |
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Processor | R5000 / 180MHz |
Cooling | noisy fan |
Memory | 384 MB |
Storage | 4 GB |
Case | the one with the old logo and proud of it ;) |
Software | IRIX 6.5 |
It's not just Gigabyte.AMD specified x16 or 2 x8 support for the refresh of the motherboard lineup but instead Gigabyte continued going all in with M.2 splitting the x16 not into another slot but into more m.2.
So far, all big four board manufacturers connect the ASMedia USB4-controller to the general purpose PCIe lanes on most boards, instead to the chipset, as AMD implied in their slide deck covering X870E. It gets even more annoying, because many boards that offer x8/x8 lane-splitting for dual GPUs also split the 2nd mechanical x16 slot further down into x4+x4 either into one mechanical x16 slot running x4 + one M.2, or make the 2nd x16 slot unusable by using the lanes for two additional M.2 slots (e.g, Asus X870E ProArt or Crosshair X870E Hero).