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    AMD AM3+ Motherboards with PCIe 3.0?

    Thanks for your help! I think y'all just convinced me to go Intel for my next upgrade. :p I may wait to see what happens when the new Zen processor comes out.
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    AMD AM3+ Motherboards with PCIe 3.0?

    Thanks for the insight! So, what I got out of this is M.2 SSD's running on PCIe 3.0 slots is not ideal. However, what about motherboards with NVMe M.2 sockets on the board itself? They still say PCIe 3.0 x4. Will there still be a bottleneck issue on those boards, as well? Is this...
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    AMD AM3+ Motherboards with PCIe 3.0?

    Awww, man...I thought it would allow you to enlarge them. I'll update the post with images you can actually see. Yeah, I'm not an expert when it comes to the technology behind the motherboards. I'm no computer scientist or engineer. I saw another SSD from Kingston - the HyperX Predator Gen2...
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    AMD AM3+ Motherboards with PCIe 3.0?

    I was able to setup the Samsung 950 as a boot device on my old board, no problem. The bios; however, takes a while before it recognizes the SSD (it hangs at the RAID controller), but man, once it gets past the post, Windows comes up in about 15 seconds or less. After installing the Samsung...
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    AMD AM3+ Motherboards with PCIe 3.0?

    Apparently there's only one in existence, the Sabertooth 990FX Gen3 R2.0 which came out back in 2013: SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 - Overview I recently purchased a Samsung 950 PRO NVMe 512GB M.2 drive, along with a Lycom DT-120 adapter to use in my older Asus M5A97 R2.0 motherboard, which uses...
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