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Your motherboard's fastest storage slot might not be the one you should actually use first

Building a PC comes with a lot of unwritten (and written) rules that get passed around forums, YouTube comment sections, and Reddit threads until they calcify into conventional wisdom. Some of them ...
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Your PC's unused PCIe slot beats M.2 for expansion — and it's not even close

Expansion cards don't usually get tons of attention, but they are some of the most valuable and affordable upgrades you can make to your PC. Instead of buying a new motherboard to get features or ...
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Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 review: Four slots of SSD magic — in the right PC

Carefully check your motherboard’s PCIe capabilities and BIOS bifurcation settings for its x16 slot before buying the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5. Those determine how many of the Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5’s four ...