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Asrock X570 Taichi bifurcation?

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Topic: Asrock X570 Taichi bifurcation?

Posted By: frankj
Subject: Asrock X570 Taichi bifurcation?
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2021 at 12:15am

I recently purchased an Asrock X570 Taichi and I noticed that IU you use the third M.2 slot you lose the third PCIe slot.

I see that Asus makes a card for the purpose of bifurcation that houses t4 slots for NVME SSDs.

Does this motherboard have bifurcation as a feature?

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Frank J

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Posted By: StefaanC
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2021 at 4:25am

I saw a few cards that still share one m2 with pciexpress or sata connected even the expense 550 range where you got that info?

Posted By: frankj
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2021 at 7:20am

I can't remember where i saw it, probably on a forum.

Here is from the specs:

M.2 slots     (2) PCIe 4.0 x4 / SATA, (1) PCIe 4.0 x4 (3rd M.2 consumes four-lane x16 slot)
U.2 Ports     ??
SATA Ports     (8) 6Gb/s
USB Headers     (1) v3.x Gen2, (1) v3.x Gen1, (2) v2.0, (1) AMD fan LED

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Frank J