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Topic: Direct lanes to CPU vs chipset lanes for asio card installation

Hi,

maybe somebody coudl help me out: Is there any significant impact on asio latency / Buffer Sizes / Stability when an ASIO card (RME HDSPe Raydat in my case)
is installed in a pice slot that is directly connected via CPU lanes vs a pice slot that is connected to the Chipset (Z790).
For my current motherboard I would loose one M.2 Source on the motherboard if I would install a soundcard on a pice slot via cpu lanes
but maybe its really worth it considering a performance gain ?
thanks a lot, cheers, lokotus

  • ramses
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Re: Direct lanes to CPU vs chipset lanes for asio card installation

Chipset is connected via several PCIe lanes to CPU. You should be fine as there shouldn't be any bottleneck.
If you have a choice, preference on CPU lanes, if this is not possible, then take the slots through chipset.

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