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i have an ASUS P8Z77-V LE PLUS board actually. if I follow the tutorial mentioned in the first post, i can extract nvme modules from any ASUS z97 boards to implement them in the original ASUS Z77 BIOS from the manufacturer to make nvme compatible as boot drive, since Asus is not updating those BIOSes anymore. Boot is not really the matter because I can't complain about a the boottime at all, but overall OS experience could surely need a boost, that's why I actually started researching on this topic and wanted to know how I can upgrade my system furthermore without going the "get a new rig,spend too much money & be happy" way! If anyone with a Z77 board would be curious enough to try this or maybe has done this before I would appreciate some more feedback. thanks again for your nice help!

ok i see, so in terms of boot, a NVME drive does not make so much of a difference, thank you very much for clearing up this side of the topic @WereCat @Droidbot. But running your system on an NVME does give you those sequential speeds of which you can profit I guess. is installing a bootloader in the end easier than modding the bios with the above mentioned tutorial and doesnt this slow down boot again because it needs to talk to different components? if this tutorial would definitely work, i think there would be a lot less hassle to get an M.2 drive in your system, but i can be wrong. Would be awesome to find someone who tried this before and succeeded in doing so. Thanks everybody for you help.

I already tried modding the BIOS, but haven't been curious enough to flash it on the board until now. But my modded BIOS actually has the same filesize with the nvme modules in it as before. I dont really understand why NVME should not be faster on boot as a SATA SSD, maybe I'm totally wrong with this, but these are the speeds of my actual SATA SSD: Samsung 850 EVO Speed:Read: 540 MB/s, Write: 520 MB/s compared to a Samsung 960 EVO M.2 Speed: Read: 3200 MB/s, Write: 1500 MB/s Thanks for your help & your superfast reply!

Hello everybody, recently I watch this video about "The FASTEST SSD Technology Explained - M.2, U.2, and MORE" from Linus Tech Tips. Since I have an older System with an ASUS P8Z77-V LE PLUS Mainboard and an i7-3770k I wanted to get to know more about M.2 and the compatibility towards older mainboards. After searching the Internet for some time, I found out that most older mainboards BIOS were not updated to support NVME drives as bootdisc, even if you go the adapter way, those boards will only recognize your M.2 drive as storage device and not as boot device. After this conclusion I really wanted to know if there was any possibility in upgrading my Z77 board to support M.2. via modding the BIOS. That was the moment when I found this thread on another platform: http://www.overclock.net/t/1571271/tutorial-how-to-add-nvme-support-on-any-ami-uefi-bios-with-an-intel-chipset which gives you a complete tutorial on "how to mod your BIOS" accordingly to your intel chipset. My question now would be, has anyone ever tested this scenario? Is there any possibility Linus Tech Tips would do a video on this, because I am not that much into BIOS modding & I don`t really want to brick my board because the above mentioned thread is bullocks ? In my opinion this modification and possibility to do such a huge upgrade on your Z77 board would be awesome for many people. Thanks for your help & comments spT