Hi All,
I've got an Asus Maximus XII Hero combined with a 10900K and got a bit confused regarding how to setup 2x NVME drives to run at X4 mode each.
The confusion started when i tried to understand Asus manual, see below:
So basically the setup is that I today is running a single 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus in the M.2_2 socket, but now I want to expand my storage with another 1TB WD SN750 Black
So what's my issue?
I want my top PCI-E Slot for my graphics card to still run at x16 speed.
Each respective NVME-Drive to run at X4 speed.
I was thinking that i could just insert it into M.2_1 and call it a day - but since the above picture from the Manual i'm not so sure anymore
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Anyone knows if that would still make my PCI-e (1st slot) run X16 for the Graphics card and run my each respective NVME-Drive at X4 - or is there any limitations?
I'm not runing any sata-drives at all, so if some sata-ports will be disabled, that's fine.
Hope some of you wise people out there can give me some hints and/or answers!