SSD Installation & Setup on the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD OC Edition
Before you install the card in your system you are going to want to install your M.2 SSD of course. ASUS includes a large thermal pad that you put down in the slot first. Then you simply install your drive. As you can see the slot is upside down. This allows for the controller on your SSD to be facing down. This allows for the heat to be transferred to the card’s large heatsink, rather than the included metal cover.
After you have the drive installed all you have to do is install the metal cover. It also has thermal tape on it. It was nice that ASUS does provide the small screwdriver necessary for re-installing the metal cover.
Now one may think that this is simply a plug and play thing and once you boot your PC up your M.2 drive will be recognized, but that is not the case. For one your motherboard needs to support PCIe bifurcation, ASUS does have a list of their compatible motherboards on their website. While ASUS has had PCIe bifurcation support on their motherboards for a while (to support their Hyper M.2 expansion cards) it could be less limited on boards from MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock, and others so I would check first. You also want to make sure your motherboard is running the latest BIOS.
Next you’ll need to go into the BIOS and enable PCIe bifurcation. On our ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming WiFi II we went into our Advanced Settings and then Onboard Devices Configuration and then you should see an option for PCIe Bandwidth Bifurcation Configuration. Under that we get an option for GPU with M.2 Storage. You are going to want to select that.
