Use 16x slot(16x) & 16x slot(4x) video card and LSI 9211-8i?


Paul_Ber

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Use 16x slot(16x) & 16x slot(4x) video card and LSI 9211-8i? 

 

Have a LSI 9211-8i that is 8x PCIe 2.0 card.

 

Picking up a GTX 1660 Super for Plex transcoding.

 

I was going put the GTX 1660 in the 1st 16x physical slot that works at 16x

 

And put the LSI 9211-8i in the 2nd 16x physical slot that works at 4x.  This part is weird as other boards will work differently and a video card in each of the 2 slots would make the 1st slot go down to 8x(when card in each slot) and the 2nd slot would be 8x.

 

Is this what I should do or do it the other way around?

 

I have the bios boot off a PCI ATI 7000 video card for the unraid gui.  This in the past was so I could use the main PCIe 2.0 16x slot video card for a VM I don't use anymore.

 

Now I have tried the video card in the 2nd 16x(4x) before and I think the MB didn't like that.  ASUS MB M5A97 R2.0, yes the MB manual says 2012 but it works and has 4 x 8GB DDR3 1600 ECC ram.

 

I am only going to have 7 spinning disks on the LSI 9211-8i with 2 8087 cables.

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