Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

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On Saturday, June 8th, 2024 at 9:39 AM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 04:05:17 MESZ schrieb Dale:
> 
> > > DisplayPort supports daisy-chaining. So if you do get another monitor some
> > > day, look for one that has this feature and you can drive two monitors
> > > with
> > > one port on the PC.
> > 
> > That's something I didn't know. I wondered why they had that when a
> > HDMI port is about the same size and can handle about the same
> > resolution. It has abilities HDMI doesn't. Neat. :-D
> 
> 
> Polemically speaking, HDMI is designed for the concerns of the MAFIA (Music
> and Film Industry of America) with stuff like DRM. DisplayPort is technically
> the better protocol, for example with more bandwidth and it is open. There was
> news recently that the HDMI forum would not allow AMD to implement HDMI 2.1 in
> its open source driver, which means no 4K 120 Hz for Linux users.
> 
> > Sadly, the CPU I got is for processing only, no video support it says.
> 
> 
> So you got an F model?
> 
> > > But what I also just remembered: only the ×16 GPU slot and the primary M.2
> > > slots (which are often one gen faster than the other M.2 slots) are
> > > connected to the CPU via dedicated links. All other PCIe slots are behind
> > > the chipset. And that in turn is connected to the CPU via a PCIe 4.0×4
> > > link. This is probably the technical reason why there are so few boards
> > > with slots wider than ×4 – there is just no way to make use of them,
> > > because they all most go through that ×4 bottleneck to the CPU.
> > > 
> > > ┌───┐ 5.0×4 ┌───┐ 4.0×4 ┌─────────┐ ┌───┐
> > > │M.2┝=======┥CPU┝━━━━━━━┥ Chipset ┝━━━┥M.2│
> > > └───┘ └─┰─┘ └─┰─────┰─┘ └───┘
> > > 
> > > 5.0×16┃ ┃ ┃
> > > 
> > > ┌─┸─┐ ┌────┸─┐ ┌─┸────┐
> > > │GPU│ │PCIe 1│ │PCIe 2│
> > > └───┘ └──────┘ └──────┘
> > > […]
> > 
> > Nice block diagram. You use software to make that?
> 
> 
> Yes, vim’s builtin digraph feature. O:-)
> 
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