Asus Gene vii and m.2

Fluke

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I am considering installing an m.2 PCIE Ssd drive. I currently have 2 msi 980 ti cards would installing an m.2 drive:

1) Make a difference over standard crucial mx200 Ssd drives?

2) Affect the Pcie lanes and slow down my GPU's

3) if I got one, which m.2 drive would be compatible?

Thanks ;)
 
What is the rest of your spec?

If your cards are running at x8/x8, then your second GPU will run at x4 as the other 4 lanes would be used on the PCIE SSD.
 
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I have an Asuss Gene vii board with 32gb memory, an i7 4790k processor, 3x mx200 500gb Ssd drives and 2 x MSI GTX 980ti graphics cards.

It's a new build that's almost ready for a Windows install
 
1) If its a PCIE SSD, then the speeds will be considerably quicker but check the manufacturer website specs

2) PCIE SSDs use the PCIE as do the GPUs. 16 lanes divided by the number of slots being used so x8/x4/x4 - GPU/GPU/SSD

3) Yes, I think there are 2 types, PCIE and non-PCIE. Non-PCIE will use sata connections if the M2 slot is used, I think its something like SATA 3 and 4 but you'll have to check your motherboard specs to be sure.
 
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Thanks for the reply. I think the Asus Gene uses PCIE, I need to check.

Will I notice any frame loss by installing a PCIE Ssd if the second GPU is sharing the bandwidth?

Which of the 2 Samsung SM951 drives should I get? One is NVme the other is AHCI?
 
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Fluke said:
I am considering installing an m.2 PCIE Ssd drive. I currently have 2 msi 980 ti cards would installing an m.2 drive:

1) Make a difference over standard crucial mx200 Ssd drives?

2) Affect the Pcie lanes and slow down my GPU's

3) if I got one, which m.2 drive would be compatible?

Thanks ;)
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1) for day to day use there's not much benefit to m.2 drives over SATA3 ones certainly less of a jump than from spinning metal to SATA SSD's

2) Your board has the following PCI-E distribution

2 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x4
1 x mini-PCIe 2.0 x1

so if you can have two GPU's running at x8 PCIe 3.0 with the m.2 drive running of the four PCIe 2.0 lanes. Wont leave you with any wriggle room for other PCIE-E cards though

3) Your board can take any 2280/2260 length M.2 PCIe drive (note some M.2 drives connect using SATA). The Sammy drives sold on here will fit

either the AHCI of NVME drives will work make sure you update your BIOS first (2601 or later)....

MAXIMUS VII GENE BIOS 2601
1. Implement 5th-Generation Intel Core Processors code
*Full support of the new CPU requires necessary driver updates.
2. Support ASUS USB 3.1 PCIE add-on card
3. Support NVMe

be warned you can have some fun and games getting Windows to install on a NVME drive...

the x4 PCIe 2.0 lane will also throttle the max speed of the drive.........
 
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Thanks for the replies. I have the sammy PCI-E drive installed in the Asus Hyper adapter card and it can be seen when I get to the install Windows screen. The problem I have now is that Windows tells me I need to enable something in bios?

I am using bios ver 2702 for the Gene motherboard.
 
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