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Carbide X
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It depends on your motherboard which ironically you have not mentioned which one is it.... therefore we can't assist you.

 

Also it depends whether it's NVMe or SATA3

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8 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

It depends on your motherboard which ironically you have not mentioned which one is it.... therefore we can't assist you.

 

Also it depends whether it's NVMe or SATA3

my bad, thought this was a general question... MSI x370 gaming pro carbon, and 960 evo

 

7 minutes ago, Tabs said:

It might, not every motherboard will support both SATA (AHCI) and NVMe (PCIe) drives on both slots.

 

If you know what m.2 drive you're going to buy, whether it's nvme or ahci, you can look in your motherboard user manual to see if it'll work in either slot.

960 evo

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Just now, Carbide X said:

my bad, thought this was a general question... MSI x370 gaming pro carbon, and 960 evo

 

960 evo

Okay, the 960 is an nvme drive only so if your m.2 slots have pcie lanes attached, it should work in either slot. Based on the manual here, it seems that both slots work fine with both types of drives.

 

You should have no problems with that drive in the lower slot.

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13 minutes ago, Carbide X said:

my bad, thought this was a general question... MSI x370 gaming pro carbon, and 960 evo

 

960 evo

The M2_1 slot runs PCIe 3.0 x4, the M2_2 slot runs PCIe 2.0 x4. The latter will bottleneck your SSD in sequential transfers. It's not a massive problem, but you'd be losing some performance.

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