I am getting the Asus Prime X570-p and there are two M.2 slots. Which one should I use? Is there a performance difference between the two? I heard that the top one causes the GPU to overheat the SSD. I have a WD Blue NVMe SSD if that helps. Thank you for any help!

Hi new builder here!

I was planning on using the ASUS PRIME X570-PRO and going double M2s, how would that work on this board? I’ve heard that on some boards going double M2 might affect the GPU and it’s bandwidth since the second M2 place some times share lanes with the GPU depending on which board you use or something like that... My local shop told me to check the manual but I thought I would ask you guys at the same time... Do any of you know if going two M2s on it will work fine or will it affect my GPU and Im better of just going one M2 and one SATA instead?

//Noob builder

So quick question, long time computer user , first time computer builder!

I have the Asus Prime X570-Pro (like it says in the title) and it has two M.2 slots. the lower one has a heatsink, the upper does not. I know generally the rule of thumb is to place the NVME in the upper slot but since the lower has a heatsink will the lower work for a NVME installed for my OS?

The motherboard has 3 16x PCIe slots but the bottom one is 4x only. There is also 2 M.2 slot, both are PCIe 4.0 with suitable CPU. What I can't find is: are the M.2 slot shared with any of PCIe slots? That is if I plugged an M.2 drive or both, would one of the PCIe slot be 8x rather than 16x? I tried reading the manual but it's gibberish to me. All I can tell is the top PCIe slot is 16x if the middle slot is empty, and both slots will be 8x if both are occupied. Or would using 5800x3D allow both to be 16x?

Gimmie PCI, there were no lanes and no need to juggle expansion cards and different slots to get the best performance.

Using AMD 5800x3D CPU BTW

I'm getting an Asus Prime X570-pro motherboard and it has a heat sink and a fan on the bottom m.2 slot. I'm also getting a hot boy WD SN850 SSD. I couldn't find the heat sink version of that SSD and I figured I didn't need it because I have a heat sink on my motherboard. The issue is that I have seen several reviews saying that you won't get the full speeds from the SSD if you put it in the slot further from the CPU. Does that apply to this motherboard too? Because if so, then why would Asus put a heat sink on the m.2 slot that doesn't even have the capacity to use the full speed of hot SSDs?