I already have two 970 Evo M.2 drives installed in M.2+1 and M.2_2 (second drive configured in BIOS as PCIe rather than SATA).
I just picked up a third M.2 drive to replace the one in the M.2_2 slot with double the capacity, but thought maybe I would just add it using the PCIe NVMe expansion card (has an x4 connector) I had to buy anyhow because I needed it to copy the drive on M.2_2 over to the new M.2 drive. Then I thought to myself "Self, maybe it would be ok to run with all the drives?"
What this means is I'll be sharing the PCIe bus with three NVMe M.2 drives and a 2080 Ti on an Asus Prime Z370-A motherboard.
Has anyone done this? Run three PCIe M.2 drives on Z370 in conjunction with their graphics card?
Does it turn your primary graphics card slot into an x8 even though it goes into an x4 PCIe slot? Are there huge GPU performance hits for doing so?
Should I stay with my original plan of replacing the old drive of half the capacity? What's your opinion?
I'm going to try it, but I wanted to find out anyone else's experience with this situation to gather data for the science of it all.
Thanks in advance!
I just picked up a third M.2 drive to replace the one in the M.2_2 slot with double the capacity, but thought maybe I would just add it using the PCIe NVMe expansion card (has an x4 connector) I had to buy anyhow because I needed it to copy the drive on M.2_2 over to the new M.2 drive. Then I thought to myself "Self, maybe it would be ok to run with all the drives?"
What this means is I'll be sharing the PCIe bus with three NVMe M.2 drives and a 2080 Ti on an Asus Prime Z370-A motherboard.
Has anyone done this? Run three PCIe M.2 drives on Z370 in conjunction with their graphics card?
Does it turn your primary graphics card slot into an x8 even though it goes into an x4 PCIe slot? Are there huge GPU performance hits for doing so?
Should I stay with my original plan of replacing the old drive of half the capacity? What's your opinion?
I'm going to try it, but I wanted to find out anyone else's experience with this situation to gather data for the science of it all.
Thanks in advance!
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