Am5 motherboard is there a board that you can actually use 3 nvme in with out effecting gpu

[Alex h]

As title looking at picking up a new board I think the asrock does but not to sure is there any from gigabyte or other thanks

 

[henson0115]

im using 3 gen 4 nvme drives on the x870e strix without it affect my gpu, as long as you don't use the top left 2 gen 5 slots you get full 16x, but you can still use the top right gen 5 slot.

 

[hornetstinger]

How can you test GPU is going slower? By running game benchmarks? Or in GPU-Z?

 

[Alex h]

Think it's gpu -z mate

 

[Alex h]

im using 3 gen 4 nvme drives on the x870e strix without it affect my gpu, as long as you don't use the top left 2 gen 5 slots you get full 16x, but you can still use the top right gen 5 slot.

Thanks

 

[Minstadave]

As title looking at picking up a new board I think the asrock does but not to sure is there any from gigabyte or other thanks

X670E TUF will let you use 4 without dropping the GPU to x8. One is Gen 3 x2 and you loose the SATA ports if you use it.

a lot of the new boards dedicate 4 lanes to provide USB4 40GBps so have to skimp on M2 lanes.

 

[Alex h]

Yeh I read that usb 4 takes lanes ill only be seeing one gen 5 the other 2 drives are gen 4 wd sn850x drives

 

[hornetstinger]

Since I have a old GPU it doesn't show PCI5 X16 I'll need to wait until I get a new card

With my AMD 480 it says PCIe 3.0 x 16 3.0

 

[Alex h]

Since I have a old GPU it doesn't show PCI5 X16 I'll need to wait until I get a new card

With my AMD 480 it says PCIe 3.0 x 16 3.0

Thanks

 

[hornetstinger]

yeah I have 650E AMD system. God knows when I'm going to buy a new GPU certainly not at these rip off prices.

 

[Alex h]

Yeh the prices are mad

 

[rare]

X670E Hero. Four NVME’s and none impact GPU.

 

[nightwish]

My Asus x670 Hero let's you have 2 PCI-E 5 NVME drives and 2 PCI-E 4. Only if you populate the 3rd PCI-5 NVME slot does it start taking lanes off of the GPU. Not cheap, I grant you, but the motherboards do exist if you want them.

 

[Tetras]

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[Alex h]

X670E Hero. Four NVME’s and none impact GPU.

Thanks mate I looked at the x870e earlier and the gigabyte mater

 

[nightwish]

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That's an excellent video. I realise now that every single x870 board reserves 4 PCI-E 5 lanes for USB4. Which means 4 fewer lanes for other things. So if you want lots of NVME storage and don't care about USB4, then x670 is actually better for you than x870! That kinda sucks really.

The one exception appears to be the MSI x870E Godlike, where USB4 can be disabled, and then it'll use the lanes for another PCI-E 5 NVME.

 

[Alex h]

Yeh the x870e are very disappointing really that video shows it all thanks Tetras for posting

 

[rare]

Thanks mate I looked at the x870e earlier and the gigabyte mater

The x870e version is worse in this regards as far as I know, if you use all the onboard nvme on that board it will put the GPU down to 8 lanes

 

[rare]

Yeh very disappointing really that video shows it all thanks Tetras for posting

This is one of the reasons why I didn’t bother upgrading/side grading to x870e.

 

[Tetras]

If you don't care about USB4 then I'd just stick with the last gen boards, even a B650 board like the Tomahawk or TUF Plus can do 3x M.2.

If you want PCI-E 5.0 graphics, Strix B650E-F was popular for that and same story, can do 3x M.2 with no impact on graphics.

There are also entry level X670E boards like MSI's Gaming Plus that are available just over £200.