Question Will NVMe SSD on B360 Bazooka throttles GPU performance?

[Rhez]

Hello! I've been asking a bunch of questions on this forum the last few days, and you have all been very helpful so far, thank you so much!

My new question of the day is, will putting an NVMe drive that uses PCI Express 3.0 x4, into the MSI Bazooka B360M board, which has 2x PCI-E 1x lanes and 1x PCI-E 16x lane, limit my GPU? As I understand it, I will either have to limit the NVMe drive by putting it in an x1 lane, or use up the 16x lane, limiting my GPU? Do I understand this correctly?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Won't affect your GPU when using a NVME on the board. Performance won't be affected.
Your all set!

 

[Lutfij]

According to the diagram for components, in your manual, the PCIe lanes for the M.2 slot are allocated from your chipset. The PCIe lanes allocated for the PCIe x16 slot, meant for the GPU comes from the processor.

You're good to go!

 

[Rhez]

Yay! Thank you so much. Gee, I really need to get more into understanding all those hardware diagrams. I've been using computers since I was six, but never building one myself has severely limited my knowledge it seems.

 

[Rhez]

But that's 'in general'. You have to check the motherboard specs to know precisely how it works. If you have a motherboard you're curious about, which is it?

The mobo I'm planning on installing is this one: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B360M-BAZOOKA

 

[drea.drechsler]

The mobo I'm planning on installing is this one: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B360M-BAZOOKA

Forget my response...I misread B360...i thought it was B350M.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Yay! Thank you so much. Gee, I really need to get more into understanding all those hardware diagrams. I've been using computers since I was six, but never building one myself has severely limited my knowledge it seems.

Your all set , no issues running the NVME drive on the board , does not affect the card at all.