Crosshair VII: drives steal PCIE bandwidth

Now I am also using a GTX 1050 TI GPU with it So if I Install a NVME SSD, as far as I know that B450 mobo dont have its own PCIE x4

SSD vs PCIe SSD And if you think that's a large difference, PCIe Gen 2 x4

m2 pcie slot 2 slots and three of them support PCIe x4 to max out the performance PCIe SSDs The first slot is connected to CPU

m2_1 slot PCIe is backwards compatible to the previous generations A PCIe Gen 2 card will work an a Gen 4 slot at Gen 2 speeds However, 4 PCIe lanes