Gaming Build w/o GPU
I would like my all in budget to be $2500. With a RX3070, I will be a could of hundred over.
I need a Monitor and KB, but not a mouse. I am thinking about an Obsidian case, but left the Lian Li case in as a place holder.
My real questions are around the MoBd and the M.2 storage. I went with the z590, but with a PCI3/0 interface for the m.2
Any thoughts are appreciated.
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Greetings. That would be just fine for gaming. What questions did you have about the motherboard and m.2 drive?
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The motherboard has the following:
PCI Express 4.0 x16 - 1
PCI Express 3.0 x16 - 1
PCI Express x1 - 1
If I use the PCI 4.0x16 slot for the GPU.
I chose a PCI 3.0 m.2 storage card. Does that make sense? Should I look at a motherboard with 2 PCI4.0 slots?
Thanks
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The m.2 slots are their own screw-in spots on the motherboard. It should have three of them per the manual.
They are labelled as such in the motherboard manual:
If you want to put it into a PCI-e slot you can, but you'd need an adapter to do that. https://www.microcenter.com/product/483678/vantec-m2-nvme-ssd-pcie-x4-adapter
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Thanks, Ian. Much appreciated!
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You're welcome! Please let us know if you have any other questions.
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