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paulw10
By paulw10
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so I have just recently rejoined the "PC Master Race" and bought a gaming PC off amazon. I picked a specific build because the seller told me it had an ASUS PRIME A320M-K and that board had an M.2 slot and I will be looking at an M.2 SSD in a few months. Lo and behold the system arrived with a different board, a Gigabyte GA AB350M-DS2 which has no M.2 slot.

However after doing some research apparently you can get an PCIE >> M.2 adapter, and i have a free PCIE slot. 

 

I have found some of these adapters online but i want to make sure they WILL work before getting one. How can I check which of these adapters will work with my board. 

 

the Seller has apologized and offered to take the machine back, but if i can just  get an adapter i will be happy. 

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DON"T SEND IT BACK! You got a free upgrade to a B350 mobo which allows overclocking. Besides, M.2 SSDs are bad buys for general users anyway. Some use SATA, which means they are no faster than those using SATA connectors, just smaller and more expensive. Those using NVMe are faster, but the difference only shows in benchmarks.

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Just now, CaptainKieseI said:

m.2 is the future

i dont get why people still recommend not to buy them

I Agree,

Only the NVMe and not the SATA ones tho

 

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10 minutes ago, CaptainKieseI said:

m.2 is the future

i dont get why people still recommend not to buy them

USB-C is the future.

 

I don't get why people hate carrying tons of dongles.

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The PCIe ports on that board are PCIe 2.0 1x slots without open ended slots.

So your M.2 drive would be limited 500MB/s and almost all adapters are PCIe 4x which wouldn't fit.

So using M.2 on that board is very unlikely.

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Thanks for the responses. I will keep the machine then.

so in terms of gaming, is there much of a "real" difference between a SATA SSD and a M.2 NVME SSD

it sounds like just getting a SATA SSD will suffice. 

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in your case, NVMe = less cables ;)

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10 hours ago, paulw10 said:

Thanks for the responses. I will keep the machine then.

so in terms of gaming, is there much of a "real" difference between a SATA SSD and a M.2 NVME SSD

it sounds like just getting a SATA SSD will suffice. 

A second of difference in transfer times at most, unless you are talking about moving huge files around.

 

11 hours ago, MathiasVN said:

I Agree,

Only the NVMe and not the SATA ones tho

11 hours ago, CaptainKieseI said:

m.2 is the future

i dont get why people still recommend not to buy them

I dont care if NVMe is going to be popular now or in the future. If it doesnt bring worthwhile benefits for the price, then I would tell people not to buy a motherboard because of its support to NVMe drives. I dont see SATA drives dying off either since HDDs are satisfied with its bandwidth and it's backward compatibility allows use on old motherboards is unbeatable.

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