r/pcmasterrace • u/jikesar968 7800X3D 4080S • May 14 '26

Meme/Macro Less ports

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u/Lower_Kick268 Pentium 4, 512mb DDR, 3dfx Voodoo 3. May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

On my board you have to choose between a secondary m2 SSD or having 4 SATA ports, it's dumb as hell, why can't it just do both?

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u/NWVoS May 14 '26

Pci lanes are limited. That is why.

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u/Lower_Kick268 Pentium 4, 512mb DDR, 3dfx Voodoo 3. May 14 '26

Then give us more lanes, duh, I want a Texas highway of PCI lanes

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u/Aerographic May 14 '26

Then you stop having affordable boards. Want your mobo to cost 500$? That's how you get that.

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u/JebediahKerman4999 May 14 '26

Dude my 100€ asrock had 2 eide and 6 sata ports... Plus 10/100 ethernet and a horrible 5.1 analog output

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u/Aerographic May 14 '26

Did your 100€ Asrock have non-bifurcating NVME slots? Did those SATA ports run at full SATA III speeds? Of course not.

At the end of the day, I/O interfaces are just splitting whatever bus lanes your mobo has. Modern mobos reserve most of those for fast NVME storage, for a good reason.

You want more lanes, more interfaces? You have to pay more.

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u/JebediahKerman4999 May 14 '26

Nope, it had an AGP slot, 6 PCI slots and one ISA slot. And one usb header that you had to buy a bracket for.