PCIe 3.0 x4

Hi, I have Crucial CT1000P1 M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 on my motherboard MSI X99 SLI PLUS which is PCIe 3.0 x4 ready. CPU is Intel I7-5820k. Unfortunately Crystal Disk info shows my SSD is running on PCIe 2.0 x2. I also have my RTX in slot 1 x16 and in slot 6 sound blaster sound card. Obviously I...

Hi, I just picked up a new Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500gb NVMe drive and all benchmark tests are running at roughly half speed. According to the Samsung Magician software, I'm running on PCIe Gen 3x2, but the motherboard (GA-Z170x-UD5 TH) manual says that the m.2 shares bandwidth with the PCIe x4...

I am looking at buying an OptiPlex 3070 sff with an i5-9500 and a 1tb hdd. I want to also buy a pcie ssd card but can't find detailed enough specs on the retailers website to see if it has the right slots. The ssd is Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD and its says it has PCIe...

Desktop Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 all stock MOBO: MSI B450M PRO VDH SSD: ADATA SU650 480GB SSD HDD: Western Digital Blue 1TB 7.2k rpm HDD GPU: Asus Strix Radeon RX 570 OC CPU Cooler: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 CL16 3000MHz 8GB*2 PSU: Corsair CX450 PSU Cabinet...

Hello guys, as the title says, I have EVO 970 plus plugged into Gigabyte X99 UD4 and I'm stuck at pci 2x2, thats what samsung magician says. The performance is abysmal, I'm seeing people posting over 3000 MBps read/write values for this kit, whle I'm getting 800/600 R/W, my other SSDs (both 840...

I just realized that I haven't actually know my laptop's m.2 support. By having an intention to buy XPG SX8200 Pro, I forgot to check my m.2 slot support 3x2 or 3x4. As, I did found some results that if the 'key' is M and it would be PCIE 3x4...

Hi All - Big fan of Tom's Hardware - Have come here for many issues throughout the years to solve issues, I need some help now customized to my own rig. I recently purchased a V-NAND SSD 970 EVO PLUS NVME 500GB to add to my PC. I'm currently using (2) SAMSUNG 850 EVO 500 GBs connected through...