Question Mag B560 Tomahawk SSD compatibility

[JCarax]

Hey guys,

I have a Mag B560 Tomahawk Wifi rig and I already have 2 SSD's installed(970 evo plus 500gb and Evo 850 evo 500gb) and I'd like to buy a 3rd one Samsung Evo 990 plus 1TB and I'm wondering if that generation is compatible. I have 3 M2 slots but I think I only have 1 PCIE 4 slot(which probably my 970 is installed at) so would 990 plus work with any other slot and if it does, how much of a performance decrease I'm looking at ?
Would it be smarter to remove 970 and 850 and install 990 on the PCIE4 and reinstall my system on it rather than 970 ?

 

[Lutfij]

Yes it's compatible, you merely need to drop the 990 Evo Plus into slot M2_1 though you should also be on an 11th Gen Intel processor to take advantage of the slot. Please include the specs to your build in the thread's body. Sig space specs can and will change over time and when that happens, this thread and it's relevant suggestions are rendered moot to the end user in the same boat as you're in now.

Would it be smarter to remove 970 and 850 and install 990 on the PCIE4 and reinstall my system on it rather than 970 ?
What are you getting the 9900 Evo Plus? A game library drive? If so, then no you don't need to reinstall the OS onto it, neither will you be able to tell the difference in speeds when on a PCIe3.0x4 and PCIe 4.0x4(that's the highest your motherboard will allow you to go) drive in real world, day to day tasks.

Make sure you're on the latest BIOS version for your motherboard prior to performing any hardware upgrades.

 

[JCarax]

Hey,
I do have an 11th gen cpu(11600k). My specs are:
32gb 3000mhz ddr4 ram
B560 tomahawk wifi
11600k
RTX 4070
Corsair RM750 80 + gold
Samsung Evo Plus 970 and Samsung 850 Evo

I'm going to use 990 evo plus for a game library yes. So can I slot it into any of the M2 slots? Two of them are occupied by 970 (main drive) and 850 respectively.

And yes I updated my bios last month to the latest one. I'll recheck if they have released anything recent.