Hey,
I decided to upgrade my rig recently to 16gb ram and throw in a faster SSD. Whilst looking I figured why not just go M.2 as my board supports it. And this is where my problem begins. I eventually received and installed it this weekend and after some (LOTS) of messing around I finally got it recognised by the bios and by the windows installation. All good so far. However on boot the SoundBlaster Z wasn't recognised, so I moved it to a different PCIE port and tried again, but it still wouldn't work.
I went to google and read a little and was shocked to find I can put it in the PCIE x 8 (16) slot normally used for SLI, so I did that and it works fine.
However more issues arose, no1 been that the 970 GTX is now only 8x PCIE rather than 16x PCIE, will that affect the performance of the card ?
My next questions are reference the XP941. When I ran the SSD bench the drive is only hitting 830MB write speeds, and its rated upto 1190MB. Ive narrowed this down to the onboard M.2 controller only using 2x PCIE lanes and so therefore require a PCIE x4 to M.2 adapter to get max bandwidth. I know the "black" PCIE port is a 4x PCIE slot, so I can put the adapter in there with Samsung onboard and get max bandwidth. My question is, will the Asus still recognise the Samsung as a boot device if I use the adapter ?
thanks
I decided to upgrade my rig recently to 16gb ram and throw in a faster SSD. Whilst looking I figured why not just go M.2 as my board supports it. And this is where my problem begins. I eventually received and installed it this weekend and after some (LOTS) of messing around I finally got it recognised by the bios and by the windows installation. All good so far. However on boot the SoundBlaster Z wasn't recognised, so I moved it to a different PCIE port and tried again, but it still wouldn't work.
I went to google and read a little and was shocked to find I can put it in the PCIE x 8 (16) slot normally used for SLI, so I did that and it works fine.
However more issues arose, no1 been that the 970 GTX is now only 8x PCIE rather than 16x PCIE, will that affect the performance of the card ?
My next questions are reference the XP941. When I ran the SSD bench the drive is only hitting 830MB write speeds, and its rated upto 1190MB. Ive narrowed this down to the onboard M.2 controller only using 2x PCIE lanes and so therefore require a PCIE x4 to M.2 adapter to get max bandwidth. I know the "black" PCIE port is a 4x PCIE slot, so I can put the adapter in there with Samsung onboard and get max bandwidth. My question is, will the Asus still recognise the Samsung as a boot device if I use the adapter ?
thanks