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Ugh ... so the lane issues continue with this $1000 motherboard.

I added an EK full coverage water block (front and rear) to my ASUS 4090 TUF OC Edition to keep the GPU nice an cool. Because the...

Looks like you have an older version of HWINFO64?

HWINFO64 shows X16 for GPU with my two M.2's installed in the Gen-Z.2 riser card:
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Unfortunately yes, it does seem 7900XTX will NOT be Gen 5, shame.

As far as M.2 ... looks like all but one of the M.2 slots are Gen 5. The only Gen 4 slot is the one on the Gen-Z.2 riser card...

PC seems ok, I think I got to it fast enough ... what seems to have happened is that my wireless mouse was charging in a separate room and my action of moving the mouse and unplugging it from USB...

I've actually put both M.2's in Gen-Z.2 unit.

Unfortunately, after installing a clean Win11 ... when I shut my PC down it seemed to be "off", but 14 hours later after work I came home and my PC...

Hi Max,

Thanks for the response, so my best performance setup is:

4090 (or 7900XTX when released) in PCIEX16_1
#1 M.2 SamSung 980 Pro 2TB in M.2_1 (on motherboard)
#2 M.2 SamSung 980 Pro 2TB...

Thanks for the response.

It's confusing because M.2 Gen 4 are X4 ... the lanes supported are X16 X8 and X4 ... I don't understand why two X4 M.2 Gen4 SSDs would force PCIEX16_1 to 8X?

So...

My plan was to put my 4090 in PCIEX16_1 to run X16.

But the manual seems to suggest if I install an M.2_1 or M.2_2 or Gen-Z.2 I'll but stuck with PCIEX16_1 at 8X and my M.2's at 4X?

Puzzled at...