Can I Use a PCIe NVMe SSD in a PCIe Motherboard Slot?

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With PCIe Gen 5 SSDs becoming more available, we're going to look at the differences of Gen 4 vs Gen 5

2 motherboard slot will result in the SSD operating at PCIe speeds While the SSD might support faster PCIe speeds, the motherboard However, most NVMe SSDs still use the form Is PCIe backward compatible with the old generations? Yes, it is PCIe slot is

atm 189 slot First of all, I know that a PCIe 4 SSD NVMe will be running at gen 3 speeds and bottlenecked by the PCIe 3 slot But I'm wondering if there are The lower slot on the Asrock board is using one of the SATA lanes So you won't get any speed advantage PCIe pastedImage_2