Samsung 960 Evo nvme on IX Hero motherboard

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Mxngrel

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Hello!

I am purchasing ASUS Z270 ROG MAXIMUS IX HERO and I will mount a Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Strix Gaming OC graphics card on it. I am new to nvme ssd's and I have heard that using these may reduce your graphics card performance.

Question 1: Will the nvme reduce the performance of the graphics card? If yes, why?

Question 2: Are there any cons for nvme's compared to regular sata ssd's?

Help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!
 
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kanewolf
Cons: They can run hot. They may throttle themselves if they are too hot. They will STILL be faster than SATA.

M.2 drives can limit graphic card performance because they require PCIe lanes. If you have a single graphics card it won't be an issue. The PCIe lanes from your graphics card come from the CPU and the M.2 PCIe lanes come from the motherboard chipset.

See the graphic from Intel
z270-chipset-block-diagram-16x9.png.rendition.intel.web.1280.720.png
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Cons: They can run hot. They may throttle themselves if they are too hot. They will STILL be faster than SATA.

M.2 drives can limit graphic card performance because they require PCIe lanes. If you have a single graphics card it won't be an issue. The PCIe lanes from your graphics card come from the CPU and the M.2 PCIe lanes come from the motherboard chipset.

See the graphic from Intel
z270-chipset-block-diagram-16x9.png.rendition.intel.web.1280.720.png
 
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