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

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 11:23

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

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 12:15

Think it's gpu -z mate

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 12:16

henson0115 said:
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

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 12:35

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

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 12:53

hornetstinger said:
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

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 13:28

Yeh the prices are mad

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 15:09

rare said:
X670E Hero. Four NVME’s and none impact GPU.

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

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 16:03

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

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 16:10

Yeh back to the drawing board I think do I really need usb 4 probably not

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 16:19

Tetras said:
B850 might also avoid this problem, but I haven't looked into them much.

Cheers will have a look

Alex h · 2 Feb 2025 at 20:03

pastymuncher said:
Don't bother with gen 5 M2 drives as they are overpriced, run hot and you won't notice the extra speed outside of benching the drive anyway. I am still running a gen 3 drive alongside a gen 4 drive and I can't tell the difference between them in day to day tasks. Heat is especially a problem with these drives due to their location on the motherboard, usually under a hot gpu.

Thanks pastymuncher might look at getting another wd sn850x then

Alex h · 4 Feb 2025 at 11:09

Manta21 said:
Try the Asrock x870e Nova

Thanks

Alex h · 5 Feb 2025 at 14:54

PeegeeTips said:
i personally would not buy a mid-high end PC now [without] USB4!

there are interesting boards like the MSI 870e tomahawk that split nvme bandwidth with the USB4, where they each get 2 lanes of PCIe5.

this is something that the Samsung 970 Evo Plus is well placed to exploit.

Thanks I'm looking at a couple of x870e boards at moment gigabyte pro and asus strix

Alex h · 5 Feb 2025 at 16:26

I'll take a look should be in budget