lane usage

I have a system with a Core i9 10th gen CPU and MSI MPG Z490 motherboard. I also have a NVME storage device, a PCIe Aver Media video capture card, and a PCIe Firewire card - I still have some old video cameras using that. All of these used to work with an RTX 2070 graphics card. When I replaced...

I just recently built a system and am using a Samsung 980 pro, Asus ROG strix b550 and one SATA SSD in the first slot. My m.2 is running at exactly half of advertised speed and Samsung magician says it's running gen 4 x2. I've checked bios but it won't let me change it and I don't think it's the...

In the UEFI you can set the GPU's PCIE lane version on what version you want it, my question is if you set the lane to.....let's say version 3.0, will the lane of the NVME drives also change to that version? Correct me if I'm wrong and I am surely wrong, to my knowledge or how I understand NVME...

Hi guys, I did quite a serious research on motherboards and principles of their work. However, a few points are either left unclear or I just wanted to double-check them with you. Will highly appreciate your comments: Is it right, that PCIe 4.0 is not the same as PCIe x4. So 4.0 means the...