asus rampage ii extreme featuring windows installation for nmve m.2 plus pcie adapter
asus rampage ii extreme featuring windows installation for nmve m.2 plus pcie adapter
bios mods can be found at the @freeagent site. x58 offers many PCIe lanes, but multi-GPU setups are rare now, making it less valuable. NVMe drives are a better choice since cheap SATA SSDs often perform poorly. Some budget DRAM NVMe options exist and might even cost less than SATA SSDs. If op plans to upgrade later, the SSD can fit into the M.2 slot instead of requiring SATA cables. I’m curious about whether increasing PCIe speed also boosts NVMe performance or not. Also, will NVMe limit how fast you can overclock the PCIe? The board seems able to handle 135-138 PCIe lanes with some adjustments, which would help NVMe speeds if tuned properly. It should still work for speeds around 300bclk, though 120bclk is only needed for 220-260bclk (without using SlowMode). For upgrades, the board remains useful, so selling it could cover buying a used mid-range model like the Gaming Plus/Tomahawk for about $50, depending on how much x58 has dropped. A used Ryzen 3100/3300X or similar in the $30-40 range would be fine, even if it only handles 4.3-4.8GHz overclocking and 220-260bclk without going over 220bclk with SlowMode enabled.
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