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is the GA-Z87X-UD3H motherboard NVMe compatible?

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After watching the latest episode of "tech quickie" which talked about NVMe i was wondering if my motherboard is compatible.

 

its a few years old (haswell) and iv looked on gigabytes product page and it doesnt mention that it is.

 

should i take it that as enough or can somebody tell me if it is.

 

thank you for your help :)

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I would aim for a z97 or earlier board just to be sure because most motherboard manufacturers don't say if they do or not.

My i5 6500 is bad and can't even maintain 4.5ghz, and 4.4ghz causes it to slowly become unstable over weeks with a vcore of 1.395. FML

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Unfortunately for NVME compatibility you need H / Z 97 or later

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After watching the latest episode of "tech quickie" which talked about NVMe i was wondering if my motherboard is compatible.

 

its a few years old (haswell) and iv looked on gigabytes product page and it doesnt mention that it is.

 

should i take it that as enough or can somebody tell me if it is.

 

thank you for your help :)

No , z97 , z170 and x99 are the only compatible chipset . But you can easily mod the bios to run nvme drives (i've done it , it works on 6 -8 series chipsets , but i ended up not buying the drive )

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it can't boot from the NVME drive but you can find PCIe m.2 adapter cards and you'd need to boot from something else

example:

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