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@hernan.c.martinez: that's a decent metric, but remember that most of the X299 mobos also have x1/x4 PCIE slots coming off the PCH and it's possible they (idiotically) might share one of those with an M.2 slot. I think another thing to look out for is whether the manual/specs say if an M.2 slot...

The Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 7/9 have the M2M_32G connected directly to the CPU via 4 lanes; these lanes are shared with the 2nd PCIe slot (x4 but physically x16). Naturally, if you use that M.2 socket that PCIe slot is disabled. You can certainly boot from it with a Samsung NVMe SSD...