tsubasa hanekawa
Limp Gawd
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Hello all, I am soon to be obtaining a cheap X99 UD5 from a friend, I plan on pairing this with an E5 2630 V3 and 16gb of DDR4 3000MHz (i know it'll run at around 1800MHz or 2133MHz but it's temporary till I can afford a 5960X or so) now, my question regarding the SSD's is in reference to the M.2 connectors on the board, from what I've read and seen so far it has a pair of M.2 connectors, one being short and IIRC sata speed for the wifi module on the other boards that have it and the other being longer and full PCI-E speed, my question is whether or not it would be possible to say throw a 128/256GB drive into the sata speed port for a boot drive and a 1TB M.2 into the slot that can take the longer SSD's for a games drive, main reasoning behind this really is because I prefer my mid towers really so in order to watercool in the case I'm planning on using when using a 360mm rad up front won't work with 3.5'' drives so I would be looking at keeping it all on the board, this helps with the theme I'm aming for too as sata cables poking off wherever would mess with colours and looks/what have you, either way i'll have a 40 lane CPU at all times so lanes won't be an issue but I've seen basically nothing confirming that this is even possible, and assuming it is I'm not sure what size form factor wise I'd be looking for on the physically smaller boot SSD.
Many thanks in advance T.Hanekawa
Many thanks in advance T.Hanekawa