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Originally Posted by CME
No doubt intel has dropped prices. But they also changed some features. Used to the lowest chip had 28 pcie lanes and the rest 40. Now the bottom 2 are limited to 28 lanes. How many people that really affects is hard to tell. But I wish they would all have 40. Then it wouldn't even be a consideration.
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No, it was (is) the low end 6 core and below had 28. The high end 6 core and up had 40. With the pricing change, it basically costs the same now for an 8 core with 40 lanes as it did to have a 6 core with 40 lanes.
28 lanes will feed a video card with 3 outputs, PCIe SSD, and a Thunderbolt or PCIe (HDN-HDX) interface without issue.
If you are not using a PCIe or Thunderbolt interface, it is not even a concern to you.
Unless you are running a large SLI configuration and or hanging a bunch of devices off Thunderbolt ports like Mac users are forced to do, its not even an issue.
Most of the people whining on the forums about the 28 lanes have no idea what they whining about.