Some of the latest AMD motherboards can only run a PCIe 5.0 gaming SSD at a fraction of its full speed, according to reports, including one purportedly from an engineer at SSD maker Crucial. The problem appears to be the motherboards only run the latest PCIe 5.0 SSDs at ancient PCIe 1.0 speeds after waking from sleep mode or restarting, which isn’t just a bit slower, but massively slower. After all, PCIe 5.0 is basically 16x the speed of PCIe 1.0. When you’ve paid a large sum of cash to get the best gaming SSD possible, you’re going to want it to be running at full speed on your new AMD system, so this is a big problem. As a case in point, the Crucial T705 is the fastest SSD we’ve ever tested, going above 14GB/s, but you can’t even get more than 1GB/s out of a 4x PCIe 1.0 interface. Continue reading Your gaming SSD speed could plunge by 16x in some AMD motherboards, says Crucial MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 7800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 7800 XT review