Asus Tuf Gaming Motherboard B760M-E D4 compatible with Kingston FURY Renegade G5 4.096 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive and Asus TUF GAMING OC GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card?
Posted by yoimjusthereokay@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 5 comments
I want to upgrade my build and want to know if the parts i picked were compatible with my motherboard. I tried pcpartpicker and I think it didn't give any incompatibility warnings but I want to be sure because I'm PC part illiterate.
-UserRemoved-@reddit
PCIe is backwards/forwards compatible
https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-b760m-e-d4/techspec/
The GPU will work, but will run at Gen4 instead of Gen5. This is not an issue, and does not make any difference to you since Gen4 provides plenty of bandwidth already
The NVMe will also run at Gen4 instead of Gen5, but buying a Gen5 NVMe in the first place is pretty illogical as I highly doubt it makes any difference to you in the first place compared to Gen3 or even Sata SSD. Don't spend money on specs and speed you don't use.
yoimjusthereokay@reddit (OP)
What exactly is the difference between Gen4 and 5? Also I'm buying the SSD primarily because it is 4TB's so the speed upgrade isn't my primary reason
-UserRemoved-@reddit
Each generation of PCIe doubles the bandwidth of the previous generation. For example, Gen5x4 is the same as Gen4x8 is the same as Gen3x16.
This bandwidth when it comes to drives primarily benefits max sequential speeds and throughput (actual speeds depend on the exact workload). Sequential speeds deal with single files (which are stored as continuous blocks of data), and throughput would benefit situations where you need to access a lot of data at the same time (such as running multiple VMs). Neither of which will noticeably benefit gaming or general use.
aminy23@reddit
It's not necessarily illogical, especially at 4TB capacity.
A $35-$100 economy SSD is one thing, but when you're going to invest hundreds in an SSD it makes sense to want something with performance and quality to last years.
Only peak transfer speeds in synthetic benchmarks would be limited by PCIe Gen 4. Everything else will still be faster.
-UserRemoved-@reddit
My assumption is that OP doesn't have any workloads where any of the increased specs will make a noticeable difference, at least not without stop watch.