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MoboMaps makes it easy to compare boards, PCIe layouts, M.2 slots, and bandwidth sharing. It lets you see exactly how your motherboard shares PCIe lanes before you plug in any parts. Credit: Sam Singleton Shopping for a motherboard can get surprisingly complicated.
- ▪MoboMaps makes it easy to compare boards, PCIe layouts, M.2 slots, and bandwidth sharing.
- ▪It lets you see exactly how your motherboard shares PCIe lanes before you plug in any parts.
- ▪Credit: Sam Singleton Shopping for a motherboard can get surprisingly complicated.
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MoboMaps makes it easy to compare boards, PCIe layouts, M.2 slots, and bandwidth sharing. It lets you see exactly how your motherboard shares PCIe lanes before you plug in any parts. Credit: Sam Singleton Shopping for a motherboard can get surprisingly complicated. A board might advertise five M.2 slots and a stack of PCIe slots, which sounds great… until you find out that using one of them can slow down or disable another. Enter MoboMaps. This free site lays out a motherboard’s PCIe connections in a simple interactive map, showing how lanes run from the CPU and chipset to the GPU, M.2 slots, and other expansion slots. The visual layout is a much easier way to spot potential conflicts than digging through a 100-page motherboard manual looking for one tiny footnote.
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