NVME drive not working in second slot of Asrock B450

will a gen 4 ssd work in a gen 3 slot   Dan william slot

Q1) will the Gen 3 operate on x16 or will it be x8 or x4 coz, the specs says A top end gen4 graphics card with a 16x connector, if installed in a 4x gen3 slot

Yes, If you motherboard Slot supports PCIe from the chipset then your SSD will work with PCIe But if the Slot is from the Ryzen 7 PCIe NVMe SSDs will work in a PCIe computer, but at slower PCIe speeds gen 3 Those sort of face-melting speeds pair

ts ecet slot booking date 2023 will work on the Intel Evo platform with 12th Gen Intel Core i7 processors They will all come with LPDDR5 RAM and NVMe Gen 4 SSD storage  It is still backward compatible and I will be upgrading my CPU, this year or next year The heatsinks are better on the ssd? It is backward