Today my new Mainboard, CPU, PSU and cooler arrived, but the box of the mainboard was partly opened already and its slightly damaged around the edges, the manual looks used and I believe some screws are missing, too.
I don't really care that amazon send me an used one, even though it's labeled as new, because the board itself seems to be in good shape.
Now my questions:
-Those are the screws that came with the mobo
View: https://imgur.com/a/vhkncvZ
I've talked with amazon and asus - amazon offered a replacement, but since the Asus-Guy told me it's okay to use the screws from my current h310 Mobo I've decided to give it a try.
But is that true? It's M-ATX and my new Mobo is ATX.
Or can I use any other screw I find?
-my second question: where to put my ssd ( samsung mzvlb256HAHQ-00000 -CrystalInfo says it's NVM Express 1.2) - so that SSD, HDD and GPU/CPU work without being "nerfed" performance-wise.
I want to put the SSD into the correct slot, but I don't know which that is and if I place it into the "wrong" slot my GPU would only run in x8 instead of x16. At least that's how I understood it, could be very wrong, though.
That's what ElectrO_90 wrote in my other Thread regarding compatibility:
"You'll have no problem unless you plug the M2 into the same port the Sata uses - but unless you got 6+hdds you'll be fine.
M2 takes one Sata Slot"
It's probably pretty simple, but the more I read about it the more confused I get
I don't really care that amazon send me an used one, even though it's labeled as new, because the board itself seems to be in good shape.
Now my questions:
-Those are the screws that came with the mobo
View: https://imgur.com/a/vhkncvZ
I've talked with amazon and asus - amazon offered a replacement, but since the Asus-Guy told me it's okay to use the screws from my current h310 Mobo I've decided to give it a try.
But is that true? It's M-ATX and my new Mobo is ATX.
Or can I use any other screw I find?
-my second question: where to put my ssd ( samsung mzvlb256HAHQ-00000 -CrystalInfo says it's NVM Express 1.2) - so that SSD, HDD and GPU/CPU work without being "nerfed" performance-wise.
I want to put the SSD into the correct slot, but I don't know which that is and if I place it into the "wrong" slot my GPU would only run in x8 instead of x16. At least that's how I understood it, could be very wrong, though.
That's what ElectrO_90 wrote in my other Thread regarding compatibility:
"You'll have no problem unless you plug the M2 into the same port the Sata uses - but unless you got 6+hdds you'll be fine.
M2 takes one Sata Slot"
It's probably pretty simple, but the more I read about it the more confused I get