M.2 Location question

iRambL

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Jun 23, 2016
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So I recently installed a M.2 Samsung 970 Evo to my system and noticed that the read/write speeds were half of what should be capable of 1770mb/s compared to more than double that what it is supposed to be capable of. My question is where on my Asus Prime Z370-a Motherboard is the other M.2 slot. It states on the website there are two and people say that I may be running the slower bandwidth slot but for the life of me I cannot find where the other M.2 slot is on this board.

I really want to get the full speed out of this M.2.

Note: I just installed it last night and noticed my boot times were coming out slower than the older SSD that I used to have in this system. I have it installed in the slot right above where my GPU PCIE slot is.
I also don't know if I missed something in the BIOS after I installed it.
 
Solution
The other slot is close to the bottom and has a heatsink covering extending from the motherboard chipset heatsink. Regardless, both slots have x4 support and operate at the same,speed. I would ensure you have the bios settings set correctly.
The other slot is close to the bottom and has a heatsink covering extending from the motherboard chipset heatsink. Regardless, both slots have x4 support and operate at the same,speed. I would ensure you have the bios settings set correctly.
 
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