A520M-ITX/ac NAS CPU questions

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   Hello, Xaltar.
Could you please create new thread?

I'm building a NAS for me and I've choose ASRock A520M-ITX/ac as the motherboard and looking for low TDP CPU for it.
I found AMD Athlon PRO 300GE OEM and it look good enough but I'm not sure if it supports nvme drive as a bootable device.
The spec on MB(https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A520M-ITXac/index.asp#Specification) says that:
NVMe SSD is not supported with AMD Athlon??3000G Processors

But 300GE is not equal to 3000G so I'm trying figure it out.
It's hard to find info on OEM CPUs so maybe someone here could help me.

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Grigoriy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 15 hours 12 minutes ago Status: Offline Points: 15	Post Options Post Reply Quote Grigoriy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: A520M-ITX/ac NAS CPU questions Posted: 15 hours 1 minutes ago at 1:14am
	Hello, Xaltar. Could you please create new thread? I'm building a NAS for me and I've choose ASRock A520M-ITX/ac as the motherboard and looking for low TDP CPU for it. I found AMD Athlon PRO 300GE OEM and it look good enough but I'm not sure if it supports nvme drive as a bootable device. The spec on MB(https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A520M-ITXac/index.asp#Specification) says that: NVMe SSD is not supported with AMD Athlon??3000G Processors But 300GE is not equal to 3000G so I'm trying figure it out. It's hard to find info on OEM CPUs so maybe someone here could help me.

Xaltar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 16 May 2015 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 27263	Post Options Post Reply Quote Xaltar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 hours 16 minutes ago at 5:59am
	As far as I can tell the 300ge and 3000g are likely identical silicon with only clock speeds being different. Both are based on the Picasso architecture and they both have the same TDP. Even the model numbers are only 2 digits different. My best guess is that they will have the exact same specs. I would look at a 35w Renoir based APU for your needs if you can find one.