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Using 2 m.2 NVME drives Crosshair BIII Hero GPU Speed

bkrieger
Level 7
I currently have a Crosshair *VIII Hero WIFI X570 AMD plan on getting a Ryzen 5900X AMD Nvidia RTX 3080. If I populate both M.2 slots with NVME drives weather they are both PCIE 4.0 or 3.0 will the one closest the GPU lose PCIE lanes or affect bandwidth? Meaning souks the GPU still run at full speed? I had read the GPU Could drop from X16 to X8.

Thanks*
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RedSector73
Level 12
The one closest to CPU should be your primary drive for OS (unless running RAID)
The second one is connected via chipset and won't effect GPU.

Your GPU will x16 based on your description.
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