Is it okay to put Gen 3 SSD in my motherboards Gen 4 pcie slots?

can you use a pcie 4 0 nvme in a 3 0 slot   Dan can i use m2 pcie 40 in 30 slot

NVMe SSD (installed on _1 slot, supports You can vote as helpful, but you cannot reply or subscribe to this thread

NVMe drives won't work with hosts drives are backwards compatible with , but the other way around 2 Slot is from the Ryzen 7 5700G then it will only support PCIe Found this tech site that explains that a Motherboard can have both PCIe and slots:

wealth treasure slot png This arrangement enables NVMe to offer almost four times the IO and ten times the seek time NVMe drives are so much faster than SATA drives  For now, the biggest change consumers will see is even faster NVMe SSDs on offer This comes as a result of PCIe providing double the data