Does my laptop's motherboard support PCI gen 4?

[barisefe]

I upgraded my laptop to SSD and placed a 2TB Kinston KC3000 SSD. It was supposed to have 7000 reading and 7000 writing speed, but I saw that the speed was less than half. Either there is a problem with the SSD or the motherboard does not support Gen 4. Does my laptop with model number (1U6B7EA) support gen 4? If not, will using a gen4 ssd cause any harm?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

There is nothing wrong with the NVMe SSD, and the notebook will work fine with a Gen 4 SSD in the Gen 3 slot.

The drive just can't run at its maximum speed.  It should probably run cooler too since it is not running so fast.

Your notebook's NVMe slot is only PCIe Gen 3.0, which is why the Gen 4 SSD is not running at its maximum advertised read/write speeds.

The best speed you can hope to get from a Gen 3 SSD slot is around 3,500 MBPS with either a Gen 3 or Gen 4 SSD.

Since notebook processors are integral parts of the motherboard, you can look up the PCIe generation connectivity specs on the applicable AMD or Intel websites.

As you can see under the connectivity specs, the PCIe version is 3.0.

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