Support for a second NVME drive

[Arktius]

Hej folks, I'm thinking of buying a second NVME and I'd like to know whether my mainboard and CPU can support it. 

 

Mainboard: MSI X470 Gaming Plus

CPU: AMD 3700X

 

The mainboard seems to support PCIe 2.0x4 according to the spec sheet and according to this website (PCIe 2.0 bandwith), up to 2.000MB/sec would be possible. So the Intelp 660P would make any problems, right? Can some software or configuration issues come up with this? Can I run this drive on PCIe 2.0x4 without much of performance lost?

[GoldenLag]

as long as you are running something in the PCIe slot it shares or are gonna use it as a boot drive, then there is no issue. 

[Arktius]

2 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

as long as you are running something in the PCIe slot it shares or are gonna use it as a boot drive, then there is no issue. 

I don't want to use it as my boot drive. What consequences does it have?

 

I have a Wi-Fi card next to it, but I'm not using it any longer. 

[GoldenLag]

43 minutes ago, Arktius said:

I don't want to use it as my boot drive. What consequences does it have?

 

I have a Wi-Fi card next to it, but I'm not using it any longer. 

It a touch slower theoretically, but not really. 

 

Other than that, none. 

 

As along as the card doesbt share the same slot as the SSD you should be fine.

[Frin]

Gonna hijack this thread for a second

2 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

It a touch slower theoretically, but not really. 

 

Other than that, none. 

 

As along as the card doesbt share the same slot as the SSD you should be fine.

I wanna get a 2nd NVME m.2 drive, primarily for booting games. I have one setup as a boot drive already. 

I have the AMD 2600X, the x470 Gigabyte Ultra Gaming Mobo and a 2080Ti. 

Question is, would a 2nd NVME lower my FPS as in slow down my GPU? 

[GoldenLag]

8 minutes ago, Frin said:

Gonna hijack this thread for a second

I wanna get a 2nd NVME m.2 drive, primarily for booting games. I have one setup as a boot drive already. 

I have the AMD 2600X, the x470 Gigabyte Ultra Gaming Mobo and a 2080Ti. 

Question is, would a 2nd NVME lower my FPS as in slow down my GPU? 

nope. second NVMe would run on the chipset and it doesnt take lanes away from the GPU or others. 

[Frin]

28 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

nope. second NVMe would run on the chipset and it doesnt take lanes away from the GPU or others. 

Thank you man