pcie gen3

Hello guys, I'm willing to upgrade my GPU to RTX 3080 (Colorful iGame). I have Asrock Z490 Taichi which is a Gen 3 Motherboard and Intel Core I9-10900K. Asrock says that they support gen 4 features on this board. So my question is if i buy RTX 3080 will this gpu run it with PCIe gen 4 features...

Hey there. After Linux doing some shady update on my SSD's firmware (on my laptop), after a reboot no BIOS (either on laptop or different system) can detect the Samsung PCIe Gen 3 NVME SSD ? I wonder if there is a way to force an update on the drive with some utility or somehow force the BIOS to...