The hops were just packed from my shop so I trust the values . That ' s a lot of different factors for bitterness perception though , so it ' s pretty interesting . I guess , at the end of the day , 40 IBUs of Saaz will be a lot different than 40 IBUs of Cascade . <| sep |> i didnt ask for your comment . <| sep |> just be quiet I just read your idiotic title , was enough to call you out on that moronic idea . <| sep |> It will be fine . This is just a simple maths thing . One PCIE slot will ask for 16 lanes by default . How many lanes it ' s given is determined by the CPU . Corei 76700 KProcessor 8 MCacheupto 420 GHzThis CPU only has 16 lanes to give . So it will give the graphics card its full attention . GPUs can run optimally just fine with 8 lanes . So if you put your M . 2 Card into a PCIE lane , both will work fine . What I ' m not 100 % sure on is how 8 lanes will affect the M . 2 slot . The sequential RW speeds are massive on an M . 2 drive , so much so that I ' d think it would need 16 to take full advantage of it all . But I could be wrong . Bottom line is , they will both work . Just observe the kind of performance you get from your M . 2 drive . Use Blackmagic Disk Utility to check if you ' re getting what was advertised . If not , then you know you need more lanes .