Using The Best Slot on a Motherboard #short

2 placed in the m2_1 slot is not gen 5 On the hero, the first slot does not share bandwidth with pcie16_1 No, you will not lose gpu lanes if using m2_1

I was looking on amazon at the MSI Z490-A PRO, and saw in the questionanswer section: Question:The m2_1 slot is only available on 11th gen intel cpus

jinns moon slot 30 and the drives are installed in the top M2_1 slot ASROCK doesn't list it on their QVL list, but they do list the 500GB P5

slot city юа Hello, M2_1 is directly managed by the CPU and it supports only NVMe drives; M2_2 is managed through the X570 chipset and it supports both NVMe