Chipset slots and Gen4 NVMe, am I really bottlenecked?

The first one is 16x electrically, but this will automatically drop down to 8x if a card is installed in the second slot The second slot is 8x electrically

and USB ; all these standards are backward compatible A Samsung 980 PRO PCIe NVMe SSD with 1 TB of storage capacity

nvme pcie 40 in 30 slot Eight NVMe SSD slots on a PCIe x16 card Silent operation Add your own ultra-fast SSDs for Mac, Windows, and Linux

nvme vs m2 slot 2 specified SSD, your motherboard will need to have an slot The form factor is small and rectangular in shape, almost like a piece of gum Sizes can