drewster

Hi All, Been a while since I've built a proper NAS. I already bought some parts and am unsure if I made a mistake with purchasing the Gigabyte Z790 AC UD. Facts: New unRAID NAS is for storage as well as running my plex server I plan to use my intel i7-14700k integrated quicksync GPU for the next few years, but want the ability to upgrade to a better GPU down the road I was curious if anyone could look at my motherboard PCI-E specs and determine if my HBA, NIC, NVMe, and a future GPU could work in this motherboard without limiting the speed on any of them, and if so, which ports should I use for which device? I have concerns about the PCI-E capability to ensure all of those components will run at full speed. I'm still in the return period and want to future-proof this a bit. Motherboard (Gigabyte z790 AC UD) CPU (Intel i7-14700k) -- purchased for quicksync capability HBA (LSI 9305-16i) -- all spinning 24TB ironwolf pros attachd (15 disks) 10Gbe NIC (Intel x550-T2) -- want to ensure I can maintain 10Gbps speeds Also running dual NVMe drives (one in CPU m2 slot, one in a chipset m2 slot as they have heatsinks and wouldn't both sit next to eachother in the chipset slots). Motherboard Expansion Slots: