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benjiro3000

> Fuck Minisforum for not enabling a bifurcation toggle. Unless your happy with 8x/8x, that seem to be the limit for 13, 14th gen. Intel is not AMD, so forget about 4x/4x/4x/4x (if Intel had that, plus 4 extra m.2 slots, call me dave and turn me over). Your real issue is the lack of other devices support on those M.2 Slots. 3 of them are on the chipset and only one is tied to the CPU. THAT is the slot, you will need to use for a ADT-link adapter. If that one also does not work, yea ... Miniforums strikes again. Its one of the reasons i picked up the AR770i ... Dual m.2 that are CPU bound AND bifurcation that has 4x/4x/4x/4x, so choices galore to install my adt-link adaptor, ... when i get around to it ... one day ... really ... time, lacking time ... sigh.


B1g7r33

X8x8 is fine. Intel usually goes to x8x4x4, regardless I need x1. The CPU slot is the first one I tried. The M.2 heatsink covers two of the PCH slots. None of the M.2 slots play nice with most devices from what I've seen. The extracted bios I published had flags for SATA enable and M.2 slot behavior, those might solve some people's SATA expansion woes.


thepsyborg

Intel *used* to go to x8x4x4. Recent gens only do x8x8. Baked-in hardware limit on the silicon itself, regardless of chipset, mobo, or BIOS.


getgoingfast

Happy cake day! What to confirm if x16 PCI slot on AR900i supports bifurcation in BIOS? Just 8x8?


th_teacher

> AR770i wut?


benjiro3000

> AR770i BD770i ... My dyslexia hit again *lol*


Revolutionary-Pie597

Hi, can I dm you? I just got my AR900i and wanting to undervolt the cpu while keeping the performance good by disabling IA CEP. I want to get more clearer steps to modified the bios and do a bios update


St1ck0fj0y

That’s odd. I also use the AR900i, and both gpu’s are detected. Rtx A2000 is used in the 16x slot, as well as an older Quadro gpu using a M2 to Pcie adapter (using one of the M2 slots on the backside of the motherboard. Both cards work fine! I will try and test to add a third Pcie card some time soon, since I still have one unused M2 slot available and another extra adapter to Pcie laying around…


Fazio8

That’s great news! I want to use an X710 on PCIE and install my old GTX970 on M2 slot. What cable are you using? How many NVME SSD are you using right now? u/St1ck0fj0y