Your M2 drives will be running on the PCH via DMI link and won’t effect the X16 PCIE. You get X16 on the PCIE that can be one X16 or two X8.*
This is of course assuming you are not using a PCIe M2 card.
Google Z370 architecture and click on the images tab. There you can see what’s going where although none of them show the M2s. Just be mindful that on most chipsets at least one of the M2 slots shares bandwidth with SATA connections so you want to make sure that which ever SATA connection is shared is left unpopulated. Some boards will automatically disable the sata shares ports once the M2 is populated. *
This is of course assuming you are not using a PCIe M2 card.
Google Z370 architecture and click on the images tab. There you can see what’s going where although none of them show the M2s. Just be mindful that on most chipsets at least one of the M2 slots shares bandwidth with SATA connections so you want to make sure that which ever SATA connection is shared is left unpopulated. Some boards will automatically disable the sata shares ports once the M2 is populated. *
Above the first PCIE?
If you have them in PCIE slots instead of MOBO headers you can pretty much count on at least one of your cards getting getting shut down as you are already at X8 and smacking that back it wont run at all on X4. Can you please post pics or a diagram or something with a level of surity. This will better serve in good advice instead of taking pokes on partial information.
If you have them in PCIE slots instead of MOBO headers you can pretty much count on at least one of your cards getting getting shut down as you are already at X8 and smacking that back it wont run at all on X4. Can you please post pics or a diagram or something with a level of surity. This will better serve in good advice instead of taking pokes on partial information.
They are in the M.2 Slots. One above the primary PCIe and one below
