B450 Aorus Elite and Pcie 3.0 Nvme

[Chezdon]

Hi,

I currently have 500gb SATA SSD for main drive and 1TB HDD for storage on a B450 Aorus Elite.

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_b450-aorus-elite_e_1101_v1.pdf?v=c929cd26479904dd13427b268b6f94c6 (page 4 for layout)

I've just bought an SN750 so I'll relegate my SSD to storage and use the nvme for OS and games.

If I'm reading the manual correctly, and understanding my research, I just want to pop the SN750 behind the GPU in M2A slot, and that's it?

I was looking into possibly getting a second nvme (prices are good and I have so many cables in that box!), maybe a 2TB Samsung which will basically mean I don't need to think about storage possibly ever again. But I understand my mobo has limitations. If I did want to do this, would I be better off putting an adapter in the PCIEX4 slot or can I just put the nvme straight into the M2B? Struggling to understand this part and if it'll affect any speeds or the GPU.

I have a Ryzen 3600 and a 6900xt.

Thanks.

 

[Dg834man]

If I did want to do this, would I be better off putting an adapter in the PCIEX4 slot or can I just put the nvme straight into the M2B? Struggling to understand this part and if it'll affect any speeds or the GPU.

None of them share lanes with the gpu, the pciex4 shares lanes with a pciex1_2 slot, M2A_SOCKET shares lanes with asata3 0 asata 3 1, m2b_socket(only pciex2) shares lanes with sata3 sata 4, you can do it either way although the second drive would be faster in an adapter in pciex4 vs m2b_socket.

 

[Chezdon]

Cool thanks, appreciate it. Tbh it's probably overkill and I think I'd rather put the money towards a 5800x3d (hoping for it to come down a bit more). I doubt nvme price will change much and my 500gb sata SSD should be sufficient for now. Still, good to know.