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It will be fine though, like it says, two of the (from what I can see) four SATA ports will be disabled. The motherboard manual will tell you which two but the other two will be fine.

Building a new pc and this is how my build is looking currently -

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£289.97 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£94.72 @ Box Limited)
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£133.16 @ More Computers)
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£112.74 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£34.79 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£31.79 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB ARMOR Video Card  (£379.97 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Phanteks - Eclipse P300 Tempered Glass (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£50.99 @ AWD-IT)
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1188.12
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-18 20:29 GMT+0000

 

I have a concern - pcpartpicker says that "

Compatibility Notes

  • The motherboard M.2 slot #1 shares bandwidth with SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. When the M.2 slot is populated, two SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports are disabled.

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should i be concerned or will my system work without any issues?

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It will be fine though, like it says, two of the (from what I can see) four SATA ports will be disabled. The motherboard manual will tell you which two but the other two will be fine.

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2 minutes ago, 2018amdbuild said:
  • The motherboard M.2 slot #1 shares bandwidth with SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. When the M.2 slot is populated, two SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports are disabled.

That should be self explanatory. You lose two SATA 6Gbps ports if the M.2 slot is used (which it is in your case). So you'll be left with 4 SATA 6GBps ports if you use an M.2 SSD. 

3 minutes ago, 2018amdbuild said:

Motherboard: MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£94.72 @ Box Limited)

I'd swap out that motherboard for an ASRock X470 Fatal1ty K4 ATX, which is a much better. 

CPU: Intel Core i7-950 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R CPU Cooler: NZXT HAVIK 140 RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 (1x2GB), Crucial DDR3-1600 (2x4GB), Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1600 (1x4GB) GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 770 DirectCU II 2GB SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 2.5" 1TB HDDs: WD Green 3.5" 1TB, WD Blue 3.5" 1TB PSU: Corsair AX860i & CableMod ModFlex Cables Case: Fractal Design Meshify C TG (White) Fans: 2x Dynamic X2 GP-12 Monitors: LG 24GL600F, Samsung S24D390 Keyboard: Logitech G710+ Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum Mouse Pad: Steelseries QcK Audio: Bose SoundSport In-Ear Headphones

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