Author: parsec
Subject: Z270 Taichi
Posted: 18 Jan 2017 at 11:40am
The only way you can use all of the Intel SATA ports and use an M.2 NVMe SSD as the OS/boot drive, is to use an M.2 to PCIe adapter card for the M.2 NVMe SSD.
The adapter card is connected to one of the PCIe x16 slots, and uses the PCIe 3.0 lanes provided by the CPU.
But that will leave 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes for a video card. That will not reduce performance by a significant amount, but if you must have your video card using 16 PCIe lanes, then nothing else you can do.
Subject: Z270 Taichi
Posted: 18 Jan 2017 at 11:40am
The only way you can use all of the Intel SATA ports and use an M.2 NVMe SSD as the OS/boot drive, is to use an M.2 to PCIe adapter card for the M.2 NVMe SSD.
The adapter card is connected to one of the PCIe x16 slots, and uses the PCIe 3.0 lanes provided by the CPU.
But that will leave 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes for a video card. That will not reduce performance by a significant amount, but if you must have your video card using 16 PCIe lanes, then nothing else you can do.