Placement of M.2 SSD

[Sima01]

Hello,

 

I have a question since im planning to buy "KINGSTON A2000 SA2000M8/1000G" and I have two Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4) slots and one of them has no cover(m.2 armor) and one has, so in what place should i put it?

 

Picture of the motherboard

 

[AnirbanG007]

2 minutes ago, Sima01 said:

Hello,

 

I have a question since im planning to buy "KINGSTON A2000 SA2000M8/1000G" and I have two Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4) slots and one of them has no cover(m.2 armor) and one has, so in what place should i put it?

 

Picture of the motherboard

 

 

Put it right below the CPU socket. The PCIE lanes coming off of it are directly connected to the CPU and not through the Chipset. And don't worry about temperatures. 

[HanZie82]

Also the manual will certainly say which slot to occupy first.

I dont know what Asrock model that motherboard is else i wouldve checked.

[Sima01]

1 hour ago, HanZie82 said:

Also the manual will certainly say which slot to occupy first.

I dont know what Asrock model that motherboard is else i wouldve checked.

It's ASRock B460 Pro4 (ATX)

[HanZie82]

10 minutes ago, Sima01 said:

It's ASRock B460 Pro4 (ATX)

Thanks i'll take a quick look.
But logic dictates what @AnirbanG007said is the way to go.

 

Edit:

Nothing mentioned in Manual, both slots claim the full 32Gbit/s.
Both can boot to NVME, but i do think as @AnirbanG007 said the top one is direct to CPU. I would use that one.

^{(Only thing it mentions about the M2 slots is the M2_2 slot shares a SATA connection with SATA3 as in using a SATA M2 in slot M2_2 (bottom one) will disable SATA3 connection)}