I have an asus z490 prime A MB andi'm adding a new drive or rather upgrading one., to a larger drive, though the same speed as the secondary drive that is already in the system. So basically, both are 980 evo plus drives, 2 tb and 4tb.
But after digging into the manual a bit i noticed something about the drives sharing bandwith and slot speed.
Can anyone check out the manual to see if im getting this right.
It appears that m2.2slot 1, is a normal slot and shares bandwith with sata 2
M2.2, slot 2, has a 4x option, but disables sata 4,5
I have 3 sata things to connect, my dvr and 2 hdds, and 2 ssds, a boot/main and a secondary edit/vid storage drive
Am i correct in thinking that slot m2.2 slot 1, is going to run slower than slot 2 with sata 4,5 disabled and 4x enabled? Or does slot one always run at 4x if capible and the option to turn on is always there or automatic and slot 2 is an option if you disable?
Also, seeing these sata slots seamed grouped, would it be better to make sata slot 1 a main hdd.
Then use sata 3 for my second hdd, and sata 4 for my dvr
I know im not configed in this way now, but im going to do some rebuilding/configing as soon as i find where i put my bloody win 10 disk! 2 New fans, swap in an rgb to rear and add a rgb pusher/puller fan to my cooler as well, so a total of 2 intake 2 out and another pushing to feed out/in
So im also trying to decide the best set up for splitting the fan headers. I was thinking the two in rear back and top share a header, and two on cooler share. Then inside top fan on the cooler it own header for the best fan management i was thinking that would work well cinsidering fan header location. The inside cooler fan and the rear/back are rgb, but thats a separate hookup so that shouldnt effect the spin rate right? (I never got the rgb working right and the fans couldnt be seen under the front case cover anyway.) But now im trying to get it right.
While My system runs pretty cool as is,but thats running stock speeds and a low ghz on the gpu, but im gonna do a bit of oc and im thinking of revearsing the fans a bit.,
Right now its rear/top intake, front rad pulls through and out the front. In the winter its a nice little heater
the comp doesnt run hot, vid card maybe 60 at most, low 50s normally and cpu in the 45 range but thats with no oc or tweaks on anything. Oc's the gpu does rise a good amount.
So it got me thinking about going radiator intake, a inside fan on top of the cooler pulling in but also pushing air past the vid card, but its going to be warmer air. Then use rear/top as exits.
I realize the only way to see which works better is to try it, but in theary, warm air flowing over gpu or stagnate air with a ps under it and little flow.
Which would you lean towards?
But after digging into the manual a bit i noticed something about the drives sharing bandwith and slot speed.
Can anyone check out the manual to see if im getting this right.
It appears that m2.2slot 1, is a normal slot and shares bandwith with sata 2
M2.2, slot 2, has a 4x option, but disables sata 4,5
I have 3 sata things to connect, my dvr and 2 hdds, and 2 ssds, a boot/main and a secondary edit/vid storage drive
Am i correct in thinking that slot m2.2 slot 1, is going to run slower than slot 2 with sata 4,5 disabled and 4x enabled? Or does slot one always run at 4x if capible and the option to turn on is always there or automatic and slot 2 is an option if you disable?
Also, seeing these sata slots seamed grouped, would it be better to make sata slot 1 a main hdd.
Then use sata 3 for my second hdd, and sata 4 for my dvr
I know im not configed in this way now, but im going to do some rebuilding/configing as soon as i find where i put my bloody win 10 disk! 2 New fans, swap in an rgb to rear and add a rgb pusher/puller fan to my cooler as well, so a total of 2 intake 2 out and another pushing to feed out/in
So im also trying to decide the best set up for splitting the fan headers. I was thinking the two in rear back and top share a header, and two on cooler share. Then inside top fan on the cooler it own header for the best fan management i was thinking that would work well cinsidering fan header location. The inside cooler fan and the rear/back are rgb, but thats a separate hookup so that shouldnt effect the spin rate right? (I never got the rgb working right and the fans couldnt be seen under the front case cover anyway.) But now im trying to get it right.
While My system runs pretty cool as is,but thats running stock speeds and a low ghz on the gpu, but im gonna do a bit of oc and im thinking of revearsing the fans a bit.,
Right now its rear/top intake, front rad pulls through and out the front. In the winter its a nice little heater
the comp doesnt run hot, vid card maybe 60 at most, low 50s normally and cpu in the 45 range but thats with no oc or tweaks on anything. Oc's the gpu does rise a good amount.So it got me thinking about going radiator intake, a inside fan on top of the cooler pulling in but also pushing air past the vid card, but its going to be warmer air. Then use rear/top as exits.
I realize the only way to see which works better is to try it, but in theary, warm air flowing over gpu or stagnate air with a ps under it and little flow.
Which would you lean towards?
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