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MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC m.2 slot

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Currently I have a 500gb m.2 sata ssd installed on my MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC, and I want to upgrade to either 1 nvme+my current m.2 ssd OR 2 nvme.

Apparently only the first m.2 slot supports PCIe 3.0 and the second one supports PCIe 2.0X4, which I believe is capped at 2000mb/s.

The nvme drive that I am looking to buy only has about 1600mb/s, would the PCIe 2.0 bottleneck the nvme drive?

Also, the manual doesn't say that the second m.2 slot supports SATA, then what is the point of even having the second m.2 slot?

 

Thanks everyone!

 

Link to manual: http://download.msi.com/archive/mnu_exe/mb/E7B85v1.2.pdf

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I believe only 1 slot is nvme, and the other will be SATA.

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Seasonic Focus GM 750, Samsung EVO 860 EVO SSD M.2, Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe, Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon

 

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MSI B450 A Pro, Ryzen 5 3600x, 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz, Silicon Power A55 512GB SSD, Gigabyte RX 5700 Gaming OC, Corsair CX430

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