B450 Steel Legend w/ Realtek 2.5GbE PCIe
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Topic: B450 Steel Legend w/ Realtek 2.5GbE PCIe
Posted By: matt42
Subject: B450 Steel Legend w/ Realtek 2.5GbE PCIe
Date Posted: 07 May 2024 at 6:25am
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Hi, I have installed an additional Realtek Gaming 2.5GbE Family Controller on a PCIe 2.0 card in my PC.  Two questions to it: - since the MB B450 Steel Legend doesn't get any Realtek network driver updates anymore, although Realtek moved to 10.71 for Windows 10 in the meantime, can I install the official Windows 10 PCIe (NDIS) driver from Realtek itself instead, to get the most performance out of this new chipset (RTL8125BG)? - does it make any difference which PCIe 2.0 slot I choose? Thanx, Matt ------------- AMD Ryzen 3 3200G ASRock B450 Steel Legend Kingston KHX2666C16 2x16GB Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe SSD |
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Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 08 May 2024 at 11:36pm
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Yes, that should be fine. Any slot should work, just be sure it isn't a slot that shares PCIe lanes with SATA etc that you may be using. ------------- 
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Posted By: matt42
Date Posted: 09 May 2024 at 5:42pm
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Thank you! I believe it works. I cannot find any information on shared lanes between PCIe slots and SATA, only the note in the user manual "* If M2_1 is occupied, PCIE4 will be disabled." whereby PCIe4 is the second 3.0x16 slot on the MB. Do you refer to this, or are there other shared lanes particularly with 2.0x1 slots? ------------- AMD Ryzen 3 3200G ASRock B450 Steel Legend Kingston KHX2666C16 2x16GB Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe SSD |
Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 09 May 2024 at 6:20pm
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If that is all that's listed on your product page regarding sharing lanes then that is it  What and how many things share lanes varies depending on the board model and features. -------------
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Posted By: matt42
Date Posted: 13 May 2024 at 6:27am
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Thank you again. ------------- AMD Ryzen 3 3200G ASRock B450 Steel Legend Kingston KHX2666C16 2x16GB Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe SSD |