Is The ASUS Hyper M.2 PCIe Gen 5 Card The FASTEST Thing In Your PC?

Just because you have the physical connector doesn't mean 4x4x4x4 is supported by the bios. I had to learn this the hard way.

LGA 1700 only supports 8x + 8x + 4x officially. They added the dedicated M.2 but took away the 8x + 4x + 4x to make sure we can still only have three devices on consumer socket.

I think eventually, mainstream M.2 drives are only going to need 1-2 lanes of bandwidth, and maybe we will see an x4 slot bifurcated to x1x1x1x1

Verry much needed video! Thank you! Asus product website does not explain a small fraction of what I heard in this video. We definitely fall for it with a LGA1700 machine and had to send it back because the CPU/mobo 8x + 8x bifurcation was not properly detailed. We had to google for 2 days and gather information from several places to realize we f..ked up.

I have three of the older Gen4 variants of these cards in my EPYC (Milan) server and they are excellent. Very happy with them

well u.2/u.3 are fine, but are being replaced by e1 form factors in enterprise, would be nice if those would spread amongst power desktop users and gamers too, would be nice to have a nuc like small universal pc with externally easily accessible slots where you can interchangeably put a cheap consumer grade m.2 or an e1 for heavy duty tasks and hoarding /30TB drives were on sale for under 2500 eur with tax/

I am CONSTANTLY frustrated by the lack of pcie lanes on mainstream high end cpu platforms. it's incredibly annoying to only have room for 1 16x gpu and like maybe 3 m.2 drives. MAYBE a 10g nic if you're lucky.

10:32 Have you heard anything from AMD actually doing active work here, even if it only has a low priority? With Zen 4 motherboards they made their RAID drivers a bit better but so far even these slight improvements haven’t been allowed on Zen 3 platforms, even though it’s just pure software stuff which sucks quite a bit.

Here’s me on PCIe 3. Blissfully happy still, running hardware that probably cost about $20k when it came out.

I have the Gen4 (version 1) of this in my Dell PowerEdge R730 with a single WD SN850X 1TB SSD. The R730 supports bifurcation, but I currently don't have the workload to go higher than 1TB. Might add another 1TB drive in a while though. The R730 doesn't have PCIe RAID functionality, but when I move over to Proxmox, I can just have two M.2 NVMe SSDs in a ZFS mirror. The only reason I'm still running ESXi, is because I've been using Veeam B&R for the past 10 years and I'm waiting on official support for Proxmox that's coming in Q4 2024. When that is released and everything works, I'm switching to Proxmox.

There is no 16 core TRX50. There is a 'WRX90' Pro SKU but that thing costs so much that you're better off buying the 24 core non Pro SKU if you do not need octal channel or the additional PCIE lanes. The 7955WX is like $400 more than the 7960X. I actually finally caved in and bought an AM4 setup as a temporary X99 replacement since it's clear that neither Intel nor AMD want to release actual HEDT stuff. I'm OK with 12 cores on a single ring or dual 8 core CCDs with my quad channel and minimum of 48 PCIE lanes, but I'm not going over $1200-$1500 for the board and CPU combined. At that point I'll wait and buy used.

I'm using gen4 version in my nas PC (am4) and it works flawlessly. It's a pity that you didn't show any performance tests on 4 gen 5 devices. With intel vroc and md.

There are a few Z690 and Z790 boards such as the Asus ProArt Creator boards that will do x8x8 bifurcation, but as far as I'm aware, no LGA1700 Intel Chipset supports x4x4x4x4. Also, take a look at the OWC U2 Shuttle for an interesting way to add a lot of M.2 NVME drives to consumer PCs.

Wendell "Data Pump" (Whatever his last name is)! 😆 I could use something like that for AM4, because the prices of SATA SSD's at higher capacity are ridiculously highly priced compared to M.2 NVME's, despite much lower performance!🤯

Hope the fan is of a better quality then previous versions

I keep telling myself I'll move beyond volume CPUs/MBs to something with all those PCIe lanes and more memory support. But you can do SO MUCH with 20/24 lanes and 128GB RAM and the high clock+cores of modern CPUs. Consumer CPU/MB combos are a such a good deal these days!

off-topic but bro's looking slim. good on ya mate.

I personally use one of thoses (older pci3 one) in my homelab with a first gen ryzen and a second hand 470x mobo, and it's awesome, i have a 10gb nass with a raid z1 nvme aray i mad for 500 buck (i got my 4x 1tb corsairs ssd for 30buck each at the end of pci gen 3 drives, i recomand if there is 3d artist neading fast network storage on a budget ( also have hdd for long therme storage)

Been obsessed with m.2 sleds... Thank you for the video 🤜🤛🏾 Been looking for a gen4 4 stick sled with onboard bifurcation

I'm running the gen4 version of this card. I'm using windows storage spaces to great effect. Had to manually mess with the column config to get it running the best....