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Maximus XI Extreme

kahless
Level 7

‎11-11-2018 05:22 PM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 07:46 PM by Community Admin

Hi

I purchased a Maximus XI Extreme to go with a 9900K cpu.

My first mobo with a Dimm.2 interface.

Can I put two Samsung Nvme drives in the Dimm.2 card, run them in Raid O while having a single gpu in 16X with 6 Sata ssd's as well?
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btrach144
Level 7

‎11-12-2018 12:40 PM

kahless wrote:
Hi

I purchased a Maximus XI Extreme to go with a 9900K cpu.

My first mobo with a Dimm.2 interface.

Can I put two Samsung Nvme drives in the Dimm.2 card, run them in Raid O while having a single gpu in 16X with 6 Sata ssd's as well?


No, both m.2 ports on the DIMM.2 riser are connected to the CPU. This means even using just 1 of the ports will drop your GPU down to x8. Whether or not that's a sacrifice you want to make is up to you.
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kahless
Level 7

‎11-12-2018 12:51 PM

Good to know! If I dont want to lose 16x then use one of the m.2 slots down by the pch?
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btrach144
Level 7
In response to kahless

‎11-13-2018 02:00 AM

kahless wrote:
Good to know! If I dont want to lose 16x then use one of the m.2 slots down by the pch?


that is correct! It’s really a shame that the ports by the pch don’t have a heat sink like the Formula.

Guess you can’t get everything?
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HiVizMan
Level 40

‎11-13-2018 01:58 AM

Yip that is where I installed my M.2 device on the Extreme.
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HiVizMan
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‎11-13-2018 02:22 AM

Wonder if that cover that encloses the bottom section where we fit the M.2 acts as some kind of thermal dissipation device.
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kahless
Level 7

‎11-13-2018 07:40 PM

A bit disappointing I wont be using the dimm.2 device. Maybe going from 16x to 8x isnt a big deal but who buys a $1300 + 2080Ti to game at 8x lol.

I assume the m.2 port at the bottom of this board has some sort of heatsink with thermal pad? I dont have it in hand yet from Newegg.
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HiVizMan
Level 40

‎11-14-2018 02:29 AM

Kahless not thermal paste or stuff like that mate, but I run two OEM P891 M.2 drives and there has been NO, ZERO throttling due to heat at all.
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vcjester
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‎11-15-2018 08:13 PM

I ran across this the other day, pertaining to M.2 and heat. Skip to 6:10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzSIfxHppPY
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HiVizMan
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‎11-16-2018 01:11 AM

Yeah totally - thing is folks hear terms like thermal throttle and don't really understand how rare or how difficult it is to make happen. Nice share vcjester
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