Tech question SSD in Motherboard

Guys,

i am planning a PC upgrade. Currently thinking about the motherboard and CPU.
i am planning to go for the ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F G.

Can this motherboard handle 3 SSD Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 NVMe?
I can read from the specs “3 x M.2 slots” but i am not fully sure if this is the same…

before pulling the trigger i would like to confirm this :slight_smile:

Thank you!

A M.2 slot is an M.2 slot.

Edit. Oh sorry. I may be wrong on that. From the MB specs it says One PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot and two PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots.

Someone else needs to chime in here.

m.2 is a form factor. NVME is a drive type. In contrast, you can have an m.2 connection, but only supports SATA.

so yes, the 970 EVO Plus will fit in that board based on the information provided.

Yes, but while the slot may be M.2, it may not support 3 full length M.2 devices, so its a fair question. probably best to download the manual for the board, or ask on the ASUS support site.

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Here are the pertinent details:

Sorry, so it posible Right? :wink:

Looks like it, but M.2 port 3 shares its bandwidth with the graphics card slot from my reading of that, so I personally wouldn’t recommend it.

No, it shares it with the second x16 PCIe 4.0 slot connected to the B650 chipset.

The graphics slot is a separate x16 PCIe 5.0 slot connected to the CPU.

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You’ve got one M.2 PCIe 5.0 slot and two M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots on that board, both of which are the same or higher gen than the PCIe gen of the 970 EVO Plus, which is PCIe 3.0(or 4.0 if you’re buying the Gen4 version of it), so that’s fine. The bottom M.2 slot shares bandwidth with the bottom PCIe x16 slot. That should be fine as well; just make sure to use the top PCIe x16 slot for your GPU, which you should be doing anyway.

I think it’ll work fine.

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Ah, sorry, thanks for clarifying :+1:

Thanks all for this Feedback :+1: