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It sounds to me that it's really targeted for music production and like, where you have a whole bunch of interfaces to connect like pads, keyboards, mixers, etc. In that case you don't really need a lot of PCIe slots. We don't really use PCIe for audio interfaces anymore since USB has gotten so fast.
VR sim racing. So, so many USB devices.
Oh yeah, good call. Or Star Citizen / MSFS sim pits.
That makes sense. I’m just sore because I had to upgrade to a somewhat unstable X870E board to get 4 slots for my main GPU, capture card, storage controller, and secondary GPU.
We're still doing secondary GPUs? What do you use it for? I haven't done SLI since my GTX660Ti's.
Video editing. I record 4k, 10-bit, 4:2:2 chroma subsampling, and the first nvidia consumer GPU that supports decoding that in hardware is the 5000-series. I have a 4090 and no desire to jump to a 5090. Swapping from a 7800X3D on a B650 board to a 9950X3D on an X870E and chucking an Arc A380 on there for encode/decode cost less than half of a 5090.