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Striz z590-e and SSD 980 (PCIE 3) - Best location

mpoffo
Level 10
Good Evening,

I am building a computer for my son and wanted to know the best location for the Samsung SSD 980 (PCIE 3.0). His main processor is the Intel 11900K. From reading the manual the 2_1 is only for 11th gen processors to use. Since I have the 11900K can I use the Samsung SSD 980 in this spot to get max performance even though it is PCIE Gen 3 or is that just for PCIE Gen 4 NVME's?

He will be using my old RTX2080ti so I would like it to have all 16 lanes. He won't have any other NVME or PCIE devices in the system. So as I understand it 16 lanes for the GPU and 4 for the NVME off the CPU (20 lanes max) assuming the m_1 slot works.

Or would I be better off putting the SSD 980 in the M_3 Slot or another spot for get max performance. If another slot is better which one will work the best?

Thanks, I appreciate any assistance you can offer.

Thanks

Mark
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MrAgapiGC
Level 13
if you have a 11900k, you can use M2_1 since will become active cause the cpu make the port active to be use. Since the nvme is 3.0 will go to 3.0 speeds.

M2_2 will be disable by default (do not use) making it active will drop the gpu to 8x and will drop more when M2_3 and 4 is added. So do not use it there.

You can use M2_3 and M2_4 (#4 need to enable pcie in bios to get speeds) perfect fine also.

If you get a gen4 put it on M2_1 and the Gen 3.0 on 3 or 4 (these 2 use gen3 only) if you use gen4 nvme will go to 3.0 speed.
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MrAgapiGC wrote:
if you have a 11900k, you can use M2_1 since will become active cause the cpu make the port active to be use. Since the nvme is 3.0 will go to 3.0 speeds.

M2_2 will be disable by default (do not use) making it active will drop the gpu to 8x and will drop more when M2_3 and 4 is added. So do not use it there.

You can use M2_3 and M2_4 (#4 need to enable pcie in bios to get speeds) perfect fine also.

If you get a gen4 put it on M2_1 and the Gen 3.0 on 3 or 4 (these 2 use gen3 only) if you use gen4 nvme will go to 3.0 speed.


Thank you very much. Very much appreciated!
RVIE X299 System:
Windows 10 Prof 64-bit | Intel Core i9 7900x | ASUS Rampage VI Extreme | Corsair AX 1200i PSU
Corsair 900D | 32 GB 3200 G.SKILL Trident RGB Series | RTX 3090/EVGA GTX 1080 | Acer X34 Predator Monitor
Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB | Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB | Intel 520 SATA SSD 240GB HD | 2 & 4 TB WD Black Hard Drive
Creative Sound Blaster Z | Logitech THX 5.1 speaker setup

mpoffo wrote:
Thank you very much. Very much appreciated!


One more thing, don't try to use the Samsung NVMe driver with the 980, it will probably cause a Blue Screen..
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MrAgapiGC wrote:
Since the nvme is 3.0 will go to 3.0 speeds...

A little ambiguous for me here...

"M2_2 will be disable by default" Perhaps not with the Z590 E