Are there AM4 MiniITX boards with two M.2 sockets?

[whm1974]

I was wondering if there are any mITX boards with no PCIe x16 slot, and with two M.2 sockets in it place instead? I was thinking this would be suitable for a Ryzen 2200G/2400G SFF MiniPC/build, reducing the number of cables used and it wouldn't need 2.5"/3.5" drive cages for storage.

Thin mITX using the 200GE/2200GE/2400GE APUs?

 

[killster1]

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-B450-I-GAMING/specifications/

asrock and gigabyte only have 1 m.2 on the itx ones i looked at. this has 2 but of course it has a pcie x16 why cant you just not use the slot? more useful to have and not use then to not have and be stuck with onboard forever.

 

[thigobr]

Be careful with the Asus board: when using an APU only one M.2 works! This is because the APUs have less PCIe lanes available (12 lanes against Ryzen's 20 lanes).

 

[Campy]

when using an APU only one M.2 works!

As far as I can tell all the 200GE 2200G 2400G etc. APUs have 4 PCIe lanes for an NVMe drive and other M.2 will be off the chipset just like other Ryzen CPUs.

 

[whm1974]

Be careful with the Asus board: when using an APU only one M.2 works! This is because the APUs have less PCIe lanes available (12 lanes against Ryzen's 20 lanes).

Thanks for telling me that

 

[killster1]

2 x M.2 (M2_1 supports PCIe 3.0 x4 or SATA III, M2_2* supports PCIe 3.0 x4, up to 2280 form factor)
*Unavailable when using Ryzen APUs, when populated the primary PCIe 3.0 X16 slot will operate at X8

yup i guess the search continues,i didn't look very hard. did you find any yourself?

i guess the easy fix is to buy a 2 x m.2 adapter and run it pcie. 20$

 

[AnnoyedGrunt]

I just finished a Mini-ITX build using a 2700X processor, and also found only the ASUS board to have 2X M.2 slots. And the compromises required made the second pointless IMO. I ended just going with the 2.5" drive and extra cables.

I used the Meshify C Mini case, so it is still a pretty large box, but it ended up looking good, having plenty of space for video cards and a large CPU heatsink (wanted to have a near silent computer), so in the end it wasn't a huge drawback to use the 2.5" drive. Still a bit annoying that no one has a good solution like they do on the larger motherboards.

-AG