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 slot, and only one of those 2 (m.2 or pcie x4) can be used, which leads me to believe this is actually an x4 m.2 slot.
Speccy indicates that I have a x16 PCIe slot, and 4 PCIe slots running at x1, when in fact I should have an x16, x8 and an x4, and 2 x1 slots. I ran SiSoftware Sandra which shows this as a PCIe 3x2 slot as well.
The manual does have some info about supported configs with SATA ports (see here), but I didn't think they shared bandwidth.
Can anyone confirm that this should in fact be an x4 m.2 slot, or what might be causing it to run at x2, please?
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 slot, and only one of those 2 (m.2 or pcie x4) can be used, which leads me to believe this is actually an x4 m.2 slot.
Speccy indicates that I have a x16 PCIe slot, and 4 PCIe slots running at x1, when in fact I should have an x16, x8 and an x4, and 2 x1 slots. I ran SiSoftware Sandra which shows this as a PCIe 3x2 slot as well.
The manual does have some info about supported configs with SATA ports (see here), but I didn't think they shared bandwidth.
Can anyone confirm that this should in fact be an x4 m.2 slot, or what might be causing it to run at x2, please?
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