CPU & PCIe lanes - Confused af halp plz?

The CPU does indeed have 16 lanes However the Chipset has additional PCIe lanes to manage devices aside from the GPU such as the SSD Z270 has 24

CPU & PCIe lanes - Confused af halp plz? Current motherboards have multiple slots Some of those slots share PCI lanes with the PCIe slots In the one you mentioned it appears that

The CPU does indeed have 16 lanes However the Chipset has additional PCIe lanes to manage devices aside from the GPU such as the SSD Z270 has 24

m2 expansion slot Now I am also using a GTX 1050 TI GPU with it So if I Install a NVME SSD, as far as I know that B450 mobo dont have its own PCIE x4

I've tried seating the SSD more firmly in the slot, and also removed the HDD in case the SATA controller was stealing a PCIe lane The

m2 slot types There is one PCIe lane on a mPCIe slot, while there are two to four PCIe lanes on slots, which makes the expansion slot the future of

You can have one, four, eight or sixteen lanes in a single PCIe slot, denoted as x1, x4, x8, or x16 PCIe bandwidth can be scaled up to 16