Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK M.2 SSD Question

[Rigg3L]

Looking for some help here. I have an older motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK and I was thinking it was time to upgrade to a M.2 SSD. I was looking at this one on Amazon, is it compatible?

 

Acer Predator GM3500 M.2 1TB Gaming SSD PCIe GEN 3.0 x 4 NVMe

[whispous]

This board does have a slot and support for an M.2 drive like that, yes.

 

What CPU, PCIe Cards (gpu etc) and SATA devices do you have?

[Rigg3L]

I have a 4790k, GTX 1080, and have a 500GB Sata SSD plugged in currently.

[whispous]

35 minutes ago, Rigg3L said:

I have a 4790k, GTX 1080, and have a 500GB Sata SSD plugged in currently.

Excellent.

 

I looked at the manual and i'm struggling to find any mention of what using the m.2 slot will disable - sometimes it disables a small number of the SATA ports, sometimes it may take over from one of the smaller PCIe slots.

 

Plug it in and see if it works! I bet it will.

[Rigg3L]

Awesome, thank you for your help!

[Rigg3L]

11 minutes ago, whispous said:

Excellent.

 

I looked at the manual and i'm struggling to find any mention of what using the m.2 slot will disable - sometimes it disables a small number of the SATA ports, sometimes it may take over from one of the smaller PCIe slots.

 

Plug it in and see if it works! I bet it will.

Maybe this is what you were looking for?

[--SID--]

M2 slot of the motherboard is PCI-e2.0 x2 what means that a 3.0 x4 NVME will run at a quarter of the speed which is about 800MB/s. That's not much faster than a SATA3 ssd.

[whispous]

51 minutes ago, --SID-- said:

M2 slot of the motherboard is PCI-e2.0 x2 what means that a 3.0 x4 NVME will run at a quarter of the speed which is about 800MB/s. That's not much faster than a SATA3 ssd.

It's not soo shy of dboule the speed.

[Rigg3L]

Even if the ssd isn't running at full speed, I planned on building a new PC after the chip shortage lets up. So I'll have a drive that I could put in the new computer.