PCIe x1 slot gen 3 or gen 4 or gen 5?

[dcHawaii]

HI, I have a 2-yr old Victus 15L desktop product # 49N24AV, system board ID 89B5.  I am planning to insert a m2. nvme via adapter into the PCEI x1 slot.  But I can't find it anywhere whether it is a gen 3 /4 /5 slot.  I know the x16 where the GPU currently sits is gen 4, just not sure what x1 slot is.  If I have this info I can then decide to expand my SSD storage this way or via external USB 3.2 gen 2, which max out at only about 1 GB/s - same as PCIe gen 3.  Thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

According to the parts list for your PC, it comes with a 'RENO2' motherboard that has an Intel H670 chipset.

HP PartSurfer

The Intel specs for the H670 chipset indicate the PCIe revision is at least Gen 3.0.

Intel® H670 Chipset

See if you can get the specific info for the PCie x1 slot by installing the free HWINFO utility:

Free Download HWiNFO Sofware | Installer & Portable for Windows, DOS

[dcHawaii]

Thanks for the great links. I found out more about my computer parts than anywhere else previously. From the Intel chipset link I discovered the following: 

Supported Processor PCI Express Port Configurations 

PCIe 5.0: 1x16 or 2x8, PCIe 4.0: 1x4

x16 PCIe slot on my motherboard is capable of gen 5 and the x4 slot (which I don't see on the motherboard) is gen 4. It didn't say anything, however, about x1 slot.   I guess the only way to find out is to use it at which point CPU-Z might detect and report it.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.