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Mushkin Pilot 250GB m.2 nvme $60 @ egg
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Nope, I don't think so. I have a Z97 board with m.2 slot onboard (ASRock Z97 Extreme 6) and it boots ok, however.
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Depends on which Z97 board but most will.
Most Z97 boards with the built-in m.2 nvme slot runs at 2x. To get 4x bandwidth you need a pci-e adapter.
I spurge and went with the Aquacomputer kryoM.2 evo for about $35.
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I can almost guarantee a Samsung 950 Pro would boot from a PCIe adapter as it had an oprom to boot for non-UEFI bioses. My old X58 Sabertooth would run fine with one albeit limited to PCIe 2.0 speeds.
However, for more recent NVMe drives...I would think that if the board has a UEFI bios and can boot off of the onboard m.2 slot with a non-SATA (e.g. NVMe) device, the PCIe adapter should work.
However, for more recent NVMe drives...I would think that if the board has a UEFI bios and can boot off of the onboard m.2 slot with a non-SATA (e.g. NVMe) device, the PCIe adapter should work.
i hope you run it without those heat trappers.
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i hope you run it without those heat trappers.
Heat trapper?
The adapter is mainly a heatsink and it actually dropped the temps significantly for the Adata SX8200 I put in it. It is pretty insane how the temps are never above 25C while at full load during writing or reading. Without the adapter, it was reaching 65C+ and the controller was throttling itself below 3000 MB/s.
Just the name aquacomputer alone says enough about the quality.
Edit: Update with correct temps after running a test with crystal disk mark.
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This advice was under the impression his board didn't have an m.2 slot, and he was going to use one of those cheap $15 m.2 to pci-e adapters. If those things are not true, then ...maybe
If you say so. First I've ever heard of aquacomputer, but I've only been building computers for 20 years.
They're a very reputable brand. However, they're more known for their quality watercooling components then anything else. Either way, they make some pretty darn good stuff.