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Blisteringly fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs debut in November

f you want to build the fastest PC you can around AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 processor, you’ll have to wait until November.  built using the PCI Express 5.0 interface in Texas. PCI Express 5.0 will be built into Ryzen 7000 and its four supporting AM5 motherboard chipsets: the X670 Extreme, the X670, and the B650 Extreme and B650. Current Ryzen 5000 PCs use PCIe 4.0, and while Intel’s rival 12th-gen Alder Lake chips incorporated PCIe 5.0 when they launched last fall, no PCIe 5.0 consumer SSDs have been released thus far.

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