PCIEx16 drops to x 8 when M2 SSD is installed???

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If your motherboard has a slot you are usually good to go You system board specification, your BIOS needs to support it I had an Asus HYPER X16 GEN 4 CARD for 4 Nvme but it's OK for only one slot I should change to x4x4x4x4 in my bios Another idea was to

fortune charm slot If your motherboard has a slot you are usually good to go You system board specification, your BIOS needs to support it slot has any pcie lanes or not and what gen they are my current mobo has a gen3 and 4 slot, so i use the fast drive for bootsoftware