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I can finally say having multiple PCIe 4x16 lanes does indeed make a difference

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Long-story short: Upgraded from Z490 Phantom Gaming with an i7-10700 to a Lenovo p620 with a Threadripper 3975wx. The idea was to go from PCIe 3x16 + 3x4 (that mobo didn't even do 3x8 times 2) to literally the max I could afford to get faster PCIe lanes. My setup is two 5060ti GPUs, total 32GB. I h…

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  1. 2026-09-02 18:54 · r/LocalLLM
    I can finally say having multiple PCIe 4x16 lanes does indeed make a difference

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