No option to buy it for europe though. That sucks 🙁

throwing it out there as I got screwed by it with Asus Extreme, if this one and all the other M.2_1 pcie 5.0 slot are the same consider it doesn't exist because it's not useable if you populate the pcie 5.0 m.2 you don't get pcie 5.0 x8 and x8 for the gpu, whjat you get is a x8 locked multiplier meaning with a pcie 4.0 gpu you get pcie4.0x8(aka 3.0x16) with a pcie3.0 gpu you get pcie 3.0x8 (aka 2.0x16) woaw so modern much high end >< I had to dismantle my watercooled pc to remove that stupid m.2 and get my 4.0x16 or 3.0x16 gpu pcie slot back oh yeah also on asus it disables the second pcie slot so you lose like 75% of your bandwith/lanes into the void...great design I hoped Intel would have learned from the "fake news" Z390 filled with fake pcie and m.2 slots you couldn't use without shutting down half the rest but no it's the same AMD bandwith management No1 !!!

Looks Dope. No unnecessary bling and all. A little expensive but what isnt nowadays. Dont really get how Jayz2Cents thinks the yellow caps make it ugly. In my opinion they make the board pop out from the rest of the boards!

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throwing it out there as I got screwed by it with Asus Extreme, if this one and all the other M.2_1 pcie 5.0 slot are the same consider it doesn't exist because it's not useable if you populate the pcie 5.0 m.2 you don't get pcie 5.0 x8 and x8 for the gpu, whjat you get is a x8 locked multiplier meaning with a pcie 4.0 gpu you get pcie4.0x8(aka 3.0x16) with a pcie3.0 gpu you get pcie 3.0x8 (aka 2.0x16) woaw so modern much high end >< I had to dismantle my watercooled pc to remove that stupid m.2 and get my 4.0x16 or 3.0x16 gpu pcie slot back

This is always how it has been when utilizing CPU lanes and bifurcation/division of them depend on the motherboard used. Desktop Alder Lake processors provide up to 16 PCI-E gen 5 lanes and 4 gen 4 lanes from the CPU itself. If you put anything in a PCI-E 5.0 slot that does not operate at 5.0 bandwidth, it will downgrade the generation to match the connected device (gen 4 SSD in a gen 5 slot will run at gen 4 bandwidth) Furthermore, if the connected device is electronically designed with 4 PCI-E lanes to its controller, then it will take from the pool of lanes that the slot on the motherboard is connected to. So put a gen 4x4 SSD into a CPU-connected slot compatible up to PCI-E 5.0, you will be taking from the 16 lanes of PCI-E 5.0 from the CPU and if a motherboard cannot bifurcate x8 /x8 into x4 /x4 /x8, you end up with losing out on 4 PCI-E 5.0 lanes (12 instead of 16 total). Running a graphics card that supports 4.0 x16 at 4.0 x8 (which is comparable to 3.0 x16) will likely not see any meaningful performance decrease if we go by this article - https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-pci-express-scaling/