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Features:- Enjoy extremely fast transfer speeds via PCIe lanes.
- SSD Bus interface: NVMe (NOT compatible with SATA M.2 SSD).
- SSD form factor: M.2 M Key (NOT compatible with B Key SSD).
- PCI Express Physical interface:
- PCIe x16/x8/x4 slot. Logical Interface / PCIe Lanes: X4.
- Compatible Sizes: 2230 / 2242 / 2260 / 2280.
- NOTE: It will not fit the PCIe x1 slot.
- All necessary screws are included.
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You have to check your Motherboard spec.
1. Using this may disable some of your SATA ports.
2. It may also cause your PCIe x16 slots to run at x8 or x4 speeds. x8 is acceptable, but x4 is not recommended for your graphics card, as it could cut performance in half (e.g., 200 FPS → 100 FPS).
3. Additionally, your 10Gb NIC may operate at reduced speeds—5Gb, 2.5Gb, or even 1Gb—instead of the full 10Gb.
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I am glad to be living in a time when this is possible. At least for a little while longer, until tariffs fully kick in.
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You have to check your Motherboard spec.
1. Using this may disable some of your SATA ports.
2. It may also cause your PCIe x16 slots to run at x8 or x4 speeds. x8 is acceptable, but x4 is not recommended for your graphics card, as it could cut performance in half (e.g., 200 FPS → 100 FPS).
3. Additionally, your 10Gb NIC may operate at reduced speeds—5Gb, 2.5Gb, or even 1Gb—instead of the full 10Gb.
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In an older PC you still need a SATA drive to boot from, but after boot Proxmox immediately saw the new NVMe drive and let me use it to host virtual machines. Since I don't have a video card in that box, it is a good use of PCIe slots to expand the storage, especially if you don't have a lot of spare SATA ports.
I did test the transfer speed with this adapter, and it was quite a bit faster than SATA, which is useful when you run multiple VMs on the same drive.
Just my 2c.
It has the following: My GPU is in the first slot, would I be able to use
PCI_E1: PCIe 5.0 x16 (From CPU)
PCI_E2: PCIe 3.0 x1 (From Z790 chipset)
PCI_E3: PCIe 3.0 x16 (From Z790 chipset) (says x4 in the manual but it's a x16 slot)
PCI_E4: PCIe 3.0 x1 (From Z790 chipset)
PCI_E5: PCIe 3.0 x1 (From Z790 chipset)
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I am glad to be living in a time when this is possible. At least for a little while longer, until tariffs fully kick in.
You have to check your Motherboard spec.
1. Using this may disable some of your SATA ports.
2. It may also cause your PCIe x16 slots to run at x8 or x4 speeds. x8 is acceptable, but x4 is not recommended for your graphics card, as it could cut performance in half (e.g., 200 FPS → 100 FPS).
3. Additionally, your 10Gb NIC may operate at reduced speeds—5Gb, 2.5Gb, or even 1Gb—instead of the full 10Gb.
It has the following: My GPU is in the first slot, would I be able to use
PCI_E1: PCIe 5.0 x16 (From CPU)
PCI_E2: PCIe 3.0 x1 (From Z790 chipset)
PCI_E3: PCIe 3.0 x16 (From Z790 chipset) (says x4 in the manual but it's a x16 slot)
PCI_E4: PCIe 3.0 x1 (From Z790 chipset)
PCI_E5: PCIe 3.0 x1 (From Z790 chipset)
The pins available does not make it a x16. That just means it can take a full length card. Manual says x4 and spec sheet says x16. Doesn't really matter here as you can only use x4 from the adapter.
You have to check your Motherboard spec.
1. Using this may disable some of your SATA ports.
2. It may also cause your PCIe x16 slots to run at x8 or x4 speeds. x8 is acceptable, but x4 is not recommended for your graphics card, as it could cut performance in half (e.g., 200 FPS → 100 FPS).
3. Additionally, your 10Gb NIC may operate at reduced speeds—5Gb, 2.5Gb, or even 1Gb—instead of the full 10Gb.
Very true
It also depends on your chipset on how different setups effect pci lines
For instance on my 870 board the graphics pci and the m2 a work nice together with no performance issues. If you populate m2 b or m2 c you lose the lanes. M2 d transfer data directly through the chipset and does not affect the PCI lanes but is inherently slower. Gigabyte manuals seem to explain this in plain English. Some other boards don't include these details
Perplexity explains it here
https://www.perplexity.
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https://www.perplexity.
"Does a meme adapter plugged into the graphics card pci affect pci lanes
Plugging any device (including a so-called "meme adapter") into a PCIe slot on your motherboard can affect PCIe lane allocation, but the impact depends on your motherboard's design, how many devices are installed, and which slots you use."