Question 1

Are these Ethernet ports 10Gb or 1Gb?

Accepted Answer

This has two ethernet ports. One is 10gbps and the other is 1gpbs. The former is via an intel X550 chip which supports 10GBASE-T and in theory will eventually support 802.3bz (2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T, which is useful if you're on cat5e or cat6 instead of cat6a or better).

Question 2

Does this would support 2 GTX 1080 ( both 6+8 pin type ) in SLI ?

Why do specifications mention "4 x PCI-E x16 3.0 Slot (x16, x8, x4, x4)" ?

Do all these 4 PCIe 3.0 x16 slot not function as x16 in terms of speed/bandwidth ?

Accepted Answer

its pretty rare for all pci slots to have all their lanes (save for smaller boards that only have one or two) in this case you would be fine with two gpu cards, but no one they would not both run with 16x lanes, although i don't see anyone noting much difference. just do a little extra homework to make sure you put them in the right ones. at a glance i'd say it's likely the first and fourth slots that have the highest or the first and second which is simply common. hope this helps some

Question 3

It says it comes with a free intel SSD? Am I reading it wrong?

Accepted Answer

yeah it comes preinstalled in the m2 slot

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