Bageland2000
Limp Gawd
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I'm planning to pick up the ASUS Croasshair VII Hero WiFi board with a 2700X
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...rog_crosshair_vii_hero-_-13-119-097-_-Product
I was watching Der 8auer's video on it, and it looks like it has a single, M.2 x4 lane directly tied into the CPU which is awesome. The other M.2 slot steals PCIE lanes from the graphics card if you use it.
I was thinking that I wanted to use M.2_1 with an NVMe drive, and use the other M.2 in SATA mode just for extra storage. However, based on the manual for the board, it looks like the M.2 slot that can be used in SATA mode is the same one that has the dedicated x4 PCIE lanes going to it. So if that's true, there's no way to use two M.2 drives in any configuration, without sacrificing PCIE lanes to the graphics card? Or am I missing something?
Manual:
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/...HERO/E13835_ROG_CROSSHAIR_VII_HERO_UM_WEB.pdf
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...rog_crosshair_vii_hero-_-13-119-097-_-Product
I was watching Der 8auer's video on it, and it looks like it has a single, M.2 x4 lane directly tied into the CPU which is awesome. The other M.2 slot steals PCIE lanes from the graphics card if you use it.
I was thinking that I wanted to use M.2_1 with an NVMe drive, and use the other M.2 in SATA mode just for extra storage. However, based on the manual for the board, it looks like the M.2 slot that can be used in SATA mode is the same one that has the dedicated x4 PCIE lanes going to it. So if that's true, there's no way to use two M.2 drives in any configuration, without sacrificing PCIE lanes to the graphics card? Or am I missing something?
Manual:
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/...HERO/E13835_ROG_CROSSHAIR_VII_HERO_UM_WEB.pdf