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will M$ be in charge of the SMR operations or take advantage of its power output ?? if its the latter...... "sure", but I am honestly worried if its the former !!!

@Hugis: I am not sure exactly when I installed the M2s, but I am almost positive that the 1070 screenshot is before that. Can't remove both M2s since one is the boot device. In any case, I am pretty sure that that is the reason I am getting reduced bandwidth and it makes total sense. In mobos...

Never knew that my board supported Xeon CPUs..... thanks for that ! as far as the drivers go.... like I said.... they are from 2015... even the OS is carrying newer than those. well that wasn't the case before the OS upgrade, but Win10 supports NVME natively.... my mobo has 4xPCIe slots...

I have 2xM2 NVMEs using M2 to PCIE adapters. The M2s are there for years and they are my boot / VM drives. ASROCK supported them by adding a beta BIOS back in 2017.

Yes, I do, and that is going to be my next step..... but I thought it would be cool to try an OS upgrade to see if everything would work. And apart from the PCIE thing, everything else is OK.

Hi W1zzard, I always take a screenshot when I buy a new gfx card. That was the current GPUz version back then. My card is running on x16 on Windows 8.1.... I restored an image backup of my boot drive from 2days ago and everything's is fine (as a sanity check) !! I routinely have GPUz running...

@INSTG8R It didn't unfortunately, and I have disabled WU driver auto update, just in case. Took a look at my BIOS settings and anything related to GFX card and power savings were already off. anyway.... thanks again for your input !! :)

thanks for the suggestion. I gave it a shot and it didn't work, but that made me check the Device Manager and I noticed something: since this is a 5y old PC (w/ a Z87 chipset), I didn't use the manufacturer drivers since they would be extremely old, but Iobit Driver Booster which is a free...

Hello people, I upgraded last night one of my older desktop PCs from Windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 Pro (2020 H2) and noticed that the GPUZ reported bandwidth has dropped to x8. Nothing on the HW side has changed & prior to the upgrade no such issue. I happened to have an old GPUZ screenshot...