Question 1

Why would you need wifi on your motherboard?

Accepted Answer

Not everyone has ethernet cables running in every room in their home. Is this a real question?

Question 2

I own this motherboard but the PCIe 3.0 M.2 slot is covered in all the pictures with a heat sink.   It is sized for a 22110 (22mm x 110mm) SSD but most are 2280 (I have not seen one 22110 on Newegg).  I don't want to take things apart to  look, but will a 2280 fit in this M.2 slot?  The mounting screw is too far away from the connector so what holds the board up?

Accepted Answer

Yes it will be able to House a 2280. I currently have the Samsung 2280 ssd in the slot and it works great. The mounting scew will come off and be moveable or an extra came with the motherboard in the box u could use. Good luck:)

Question 3

I have G. skills DDR4 3600 ram and want to know if it will work on this motherboard? please tell me asap!

Accepted Answer

Yes, any DDR4 RAM will work with this board

Question 4

Can you plug a different wifi antenna into the motherboard?
I have a dual-antenna setup from another wifi-AC adapter that's much bigger and nicer than the antenna this comes with. Can I plug it into the two wifi ports and have it work? My 5Ghz signal in this room is very weak.

Accepted Answer

I could on mine so I would assume you can. This board comes with an antenena that has a wirelike 2 feet long and all I switched with a normal screw in type.

Question 5

Is the second M.2 slot pcie 2.0 or 3.0?

Accepted Answer

According to what I have read and seen the top slot is 32gb/s and the bottom is 16gb/s.  Yet the actual specs say the second (bottom) is indeed pcie 2.0 and the top is pcie 3.0.  One other note is that it had a problem with my ram. I got the g.skill rgb 3200. The manual lists the slots to use for 2 sticks as 1 & 3 but when booted windows only saw half. Swapping them to slots 2 & 4 fixed it.  I did just update the bios so not sure if that’s still an issue.

Question 6

If i use an m.2 and it takes up x4 of my PCI-e lanes, can i still use 3 GPUs? will they run 8/8/8 or 8/4/4?

Accepted Answer

You should get 8/8/8 but depending on the gpu/cpu combo you’re running it would hardly matter at that point. You’d be using a different MB if you wanted 3 2080ti cards....

Question 7

Will this board's M2 support one as boot drive?

Accepted Answer

Yes. There are 2 m.2 interfaces.  I installed a samsung 960pro in the b interface (bottom of the board) and windows 10 ran fine...but the speeds for the 960pro were not what they were supposed to be.  I then realized I had put it in the slower interface...moved it and everything is lightning fast now!

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