98$ - 512GB XPG NVME SSD

Here's an Uber Noober question... can I use this SSD on an AsRock Z87 Extreme 6 Mobo? or are these New Gen SSd for New Gen Mobos.

And yes, I have been hibernating under a big rock for a few years now... ;)
 
motolube said:
Here's an Uber Noober question... can I use this SSD on an AsRock Z87 Extreme 6 Mobo? or are these New Gen SSd for New Gen Mobos.

And yes, I have been hibernating under a big rock for a few years now... ;)
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I don't think the Z87 Extreme6 has an M.2 slot right? If so, it would not be compatible. I believe most LGA1150 boards with M.2 slots are better paired with SATA drives, rather than NVME (which will impact the PCIE lanes for the graphics cards on the older motherboard platform).
 
iRUSH said:
Seems incredibly slow for NVME. Maybe I misread.
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Definitely an entry level NVME drive, faster than SATA drives for sustained read/write but not significantly in random, sequential and I/O performance.
 
This drive is only a PCIE 3.0 x 2 drive, not 3.0 x 4 like most NVME. I have the SX7000 which is a 3.0 x 4.
 
HiryuuX said:
I don't think the Z87 Extreme6 has an M.2 slot right? If so, it would not be compatible. I believe most LGA1150 boards with M.2 slots are better paired with SATA drives, rather than NVME (which will impact the PCIE lanes for the graphics cards on the older motherboard platform).
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Thank you very much for the response
 
SolidBladez said:
Technically you can use a M.2 PCIe adapter and get it to boot (needs 2.80C BIOS).
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Wow that's pretty amazing asrock is still making bios for older boards to gain new features like NVME, even if they are just beta bios.

ASUS pretty much kills all support roughly after a year or so. I wish my ASUS Z87-A boards had PCIe to NVME support.
 
DTN107 said:
Wow that's pretty amazing asrock is still making bios for older boards to gain new features like NVME, even if they are just beta bios.

ASUS pretty much kills all support roughly after a year or so. I wish my ASUS Z87-A boards had PCIe to NVME support.
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This is absolutely false. They do not .. repeat do not kill support after a year. In fact, this is something you could have investigated personally and found out to not be true.

I use Asus boards exclusively and there have been many boards that received new BIOS updates well into the 2nd year. Go luck at the first public bios and the most current bios released on any motherboard. They also update the drivers as well.

ASRock is the number #1 brand of motherboard in Korea. #2 in Japan. Asus is #1 the world over other than in Korea.

Asus used to own ASRock. This is no longer the case since 2002 but they still enjoy a close relationship as many managers and engineers have worked for both companies. They are however still each others competitor in the motherboard market.

I love Asus for the fact they release firmware updates very heavily, 10x more so than any other motherboard manufacturer.
 
SixFootDuo said:
This is absolutely false. They do not .. repeat do not kill support after a year. In fact, this is something you could have investigated personally and found out to not be true.

I use Asus boards exclusively and there have been many boards that received new BIOS updates well into the 2nd year. Go luck at the first public bios and the most current bios released on any motherboard. They also update the drivers as well.

ASRock is the number #1 brand of motherboard in Korea. #2 in Japan. Asus is #1 the world over other than in Korea.

Asus used to own ASRock. This is no longer the case since 2002 but they still enjoy a close relationship as many managers and engineers have worked for both companies. They are however still each others competitor in the motherboard market.

I love Asus for the fact they release firmware updates very heavily, 10x more so than any other motherboard manufacturer.
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Well I'll admit I was a bit exaggerated but it is close to my statement with the ASUS Z87-A.

The Z87-A came out in 2014, but any updated drivers after 2015 were not actually developed by ASUS. They are from Realtek for their audio & lan, Intel chipset & VGA, and etc.

Last BIOS update was Sept 12, 2014 (the same year it came out). Hell, when I bought my Z-87A from microcenter, it actually had a BETA bios (08xx)! The oldest bios available on ASUS website is 1007.

So yea... I wouldn't so much put ASUS on a pedestal. It would seem that one of their most main-stream and most sold motherboards would retain support for a while but it just didn't happened.

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Update: I decided to look at another popular board the ASUS Z97-A.

Same scenario. Only updated drivers were from 3rd parties after 1 year. Though there is an exception of a new beta bios after 3 years of the last bios update which mainly just pertains to the meltdown exploit.

On a side note, according to one person on this reddit thread

This is from a 3rd party but: A small catch here, is that the BIOS updates are marked "beta" by ASUS, because the understanding is that all 9-series motherboards sold through 2014-15 are EOL, and have probably lapsed warranty coverage, so the company is limiting its liabilities in case BIOS updates fail, or if the platform still ends up "vulnerable" somehow.

Been using it for a week plus no issues here. 4790k|Z97-PRO(Wi-Fi ac)/USB 3.1|Ballistix8Gbx4|980Tix2
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I got a WD Black 256GB NVME drive when I got my Z270 board. I've been meaning to swap it into boot drive duty, but from what I've seen, NVME doesn't give a major boost to normal Windows use or gaming.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
DoubleTap said:
I got a WD Black 256GB NVME drive when I got my Z270 board. I've been meaning to swap it into boot drive duty, but from what I've seen, NVME doesn't give a major boost to normal Windows use or gaming.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
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over a good sata ssd correct. But if you are running one of the older sata drives it's worth it.
 
DTN107 said:
Well I'll admit I was a bit exaggerated but it is close to my statement with the ASUS Z87-A.

The Z87-A came out in 2014, but any updated drivers after 2015 were not actually developed by ASUS. They are from Realtek for their audio & lan, Intel chipset & VGA, and etc.

Last BIOS update was Sept 12, 2014 (the same year it came out). Hell, when I bought my Z-87A from microcenter, it actually had a BETA bios (08xx)! The oldest bios available on ASUS website is 1007.

So yea... I wouldn't so much put ASUS on a pedestal. It would seem that one of their most main-stream and most sold motherboards would retain support for a while but it just didn't happened.

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Update: I decided to look at another popular board the ASUS Z97-A.

Same scenario. Only updated drivers were from 3rd parties after 1 year. Though there is an exception of a new beta bios after 3 years of the last bios update which mainly just pertains to the meltdown exploit.

On a side note, according to one person on this reddit thread
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Yep. I just checked my old Asus Z77 deluxe. First BIOS available: 3/2012. Final BIOS available: 9/2013. About a year and a half of support. That Asrock has a miracle bios team. For fun, I checked some of their Z77 Extreme boards (11 and 6), and both had beta 2018 microcode bios updates. Incredible.
 
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