Nope, and since they are NVMe all of your SATA ports will still work. The only way your PCIe x16 will drop to 8 is if you use both of the first two PCIe x 16 slots.Hey!
As said in the title I am planning on getting two 1TB Kingston A2000's for my Z390-F Gaming, which will result in having both M.2 slots occupied. Will this reduce my GPU to x8 instead of x16?
Nope, and since they are NVMe all of your SATA ports will still work. The only way your PCIe x16 will drop to 8 is if you use both of the first two PCIe x 16 slots.Hey!
As said in the title I am planning on getting two 1TB Kingston A2000's for my Z390-F Gaming, which will result in having both M.2 slots occupied. Will this reduce my GPU to x8 instead of x16?
That is good to hear! I thought that with my I5-9600K having 16 PCIe lanes (+ the DMI 3.0) having two NVME's would reduce the gpu to x8.Nope, and since they are NVMe all of your SATA ports will still work. The only way your PCIe x16 will drop to 8 is if you use both of the first two PCIe x 16 slots.
Nope, they are wired to be one slot at 16x or two at 8x each, the third is always 4x. Unfortunately, motherboard designers decide what we get not what could be excellent.That is good to hear! I thought that with my I5-9600K having 16 PCIe lanes (+ the DMI 3.0) having two NVME's would reduce the gpu to x8.
On another note, without having anything installed in the M.2 slots shouldn't my secondary PCIe lane also output x16 to my GPU? Considering that the slots are PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX16_2. Having 1080 Strix seated in the secondary slot outputs at x8 currently.
Yeah I have had the Z390F-Gaming for 2 years.i know this is an old thread, but this EXACT problem is what im currently dealing with and cannot get any help with it! @Lokari did you end up getting the F-Gaming?? and is your GPU verified and running at x16?? i cannot for the life of me get mine out of x8 and 2.5GT/s when it should be at x16 8.0 GT/s