Hi,
I'm using a Samsung SSD 970 Evo NVM.e M.2 1TB as boot drive, currently installed in the PCIe add-in card HYPER M.2 X4 MINI which shipped with my Asus Z170 Deluxe mobo.
I'd like to purchase a new GPU, but since the one I've got my eye one that requires 3 slots, I'll have to move the Hyper card with OS drive to make room.
The most elegant solution would be to put the OS drive into the M.2 Socket on the mobo itself -- I used the Hyper-m.2 add-on card because it offered better thermal values, as the Hyper card back-plate was blocking the hot air coming from my GTX970 strix, whereas in the native m.2 mobo slot the temps were a lot higher (just purchased an m.2 Silverstone heatsink to try and combat that).
Long story short: I'd like to switch the OS drive to the m.2 slot on the mobo instead of the pcie add-on card.
1. Will this mess up the boot? Will the BIOS recognize it as OS drive and C-drive? I've 2 other SSDs and 2 HDDs connected, so I assume I would just have to unplug those when first booting into OS and then reconnect in the same sequence as before (I think)?
2. Thermal issues: the new GPU will provide amazing air cooling - I hope - but the hot air will just blow down to the m2; I considered just putting the PCIe add-in card above the GPU, but it's physically impossible.
Thoughts?
I'm using a Samsung SSD 970 Evo NVM.e M.2 1TB as boot drive, currently installed in the PCIe add-in card HYPER M.2 X4 MINI which shipped with my Asus Z170 Deluxe mobo.
I'd like to purchase a new GPU, but since the one I've got my eye one that requires 3 slots, I'll have to move the Hyper card with OS drive to make room.
The most elegant solution would be to put the OS drive into the M.2 Socket on the mobo itself -- I used the Hyper-m.2 add-on card because it offered better thermal values, as the Hyper card back-plate was blocking the hot air coming from my GTX970 strix, whereas in the native m.2 mobo slot the temps were a lot higher (just purchased an m.2 Silverstone heatsink to try and combat that).
Long story short: I'd like to switch the OS drive to the m.2 slot on the mobo instead of the pcie add-on card.
1. Will this mess up the boot? Will the BIOS recognize it as OS drive and C-drive? I've 2 other SSDs and 2 HDDs connected, so I assume I would just have to unplug those when first booting into OS and then reconnect in the same sequence as before (I think)?
2. Thermal issues: the new GPU will provide amazing air cooling - I hope - but the hot air will just blow down to the m2; I considered just putting the PCIe add-in card above the GPU, but it's physically impossible.
Thoughts?