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This actually seems like just a very clever market segmentation solution since the GPU was already limited to 8x PCIe lanes (its a laptop GPU see https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-4060-Laptop...). The 'addition' of the M.2 SSD makes it a unique offering. Limiting it to only one drive is another way to keep the thermal envelope down. Kudos to the Asus design and product development folks.

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Most desktop class boards can only support bifurcating a 16x lane slot into two 8x lane slots, so it's more about preventing user error, as 2 M.2 slots would likely not function in most cases.

Even on server class hardware, the split options for a single slot are usually (but not always) 16x, 2* 8x, and 4* 4x - an 8x + 2* 4x option is somewhat unusual.

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