So the title explains it. My SSD is a Samsung PM 981 256GB M.2 NGFF PCIe Gen3 x 4 NVME and I have it installed in the M.2 slot and it works fine, just only running at PCIe 2 x 2.0. The file uploader would only let me upload 1 file, so I copy/pasted the CrystalDisk Mark results below. I was told that Intel 9 series chipsets don't support the 10 Gb/s speeds, so if that's true, why would they advertise that it does? Any info would be appreciated!
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CrystalDiskMark 5.5.0 x64 (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : Crystal Dew World
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 834.565 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 811.758 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 531.023 MB/s [129644.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 372.967 MB/s [ 91056.4 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 797.094 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 788.709 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 49.138 MB/s [ 11996.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 167.229 MB/s [ 40827.4 IOPS]
Test : 1024 MiB [C: 53.4% (127.0/237.9 GiB)] (x2) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/09/22 2:05:33
OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 18362] (x64)
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CrystalDiskMark 5.5.0 x64 (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : Crystal Dew World
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 834.565 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 811.758 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 531.023 MB/s [129644.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 372.967 MB/s [ 91056.4 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 797.094 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 788.709 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 49.138 MB/s [ 11996.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 167.229 MB/s [ 40827.4 IOPS]
Test : 1024 MiB [C: 53.4% (127.0/237.9 GiB)] (x2) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/09/22 2:05:33
OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 18362] (x64)
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