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Hey, I have a B450 board, and the opportunity to buy a gen 4 SSD for quite cheap. I know I'll be limited to gen 3 speeds, but would it at least work, or would I actually need that full speed support to even use the drive?
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
2020/11/27 14:11:53
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☼ Best Answerby sagbobbitEVGA 2020/11/27 14:17:45
As far as I know both PCI-e 4.0 slots and devices are backwards compatible.
A PCI-e 4.0 nvme will work on a 3.0 pci-e slot as far as I know.
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
2020/11/27 14:14:31
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i have a computer its nice
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Gallus85
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
2020/11/27 14:16:15
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But ya. You will be limited to 3.0 speeds until you put it in a matching 4.0 slot. If 4.0 devices didn't work in 3.0 slots there would be a LOT of very disappointed 3080 and 3090 owners who have intel systems lol.
post edited by Gallus85 - 2020/11/27 14:37:43
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
2020/11/30 12:22:14
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It will still work and unless you are using multipule devices you wont max out the bus on 3.0
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
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I have Dell 7567 having interface: PCIe 3x4 slot for ssd. I want to upgrade my ssd to
AORUS Gen4 SSD 1TB, is it compatible or not? Please help me with this.
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
2021/02/09 09:28:19
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Pci-e is backwards compatible, its nothing crazy!
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
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As the reply above has stated, PCIe is backward compatible. I would just like to point out that for that there are faster NVME SSDs on the market from Sabrent and Samsung for about the same price or just buy a significantly cheaper gen3 SSD that is slightly slower. Of course, this is assuming you didn't already buy the drive or have it on hand.
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Re: PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?
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I put a Corsair M600 Gen 4 drive into my EVGA Z270 FTWK (before the board died) and the write speed was substantially higher than the Samsung 960 Pro Gen 3 I had as my boot drive. The read speed is faster too, just not as impressive. The difference between either NVMe Gen 3 or Gen 4 is insane when compared to a HDD. Transfer between drives is lightening speed between NVMe. Postal Speed between the HDD...
Now running a MSI z590 Pro mb and a i7-10700K cpu, in Gen 3:
960 Pro 3313 read/2117 Write
MP600 3472 read/3256 write
ST4000 148 read/142 write (Seagate 4GB storage HDD)
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