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CoolBuster999
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What motherboard do you have?

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NVME to SSD speed differences are not that significant in about 95% of the tasks you will be doing unless you are a professional video or photo editor. However, your motherboard and cpu will need support for nvme drives. If your motherboard does not have an m.2 slot that supports m key nvme ssd's, then you will need an nvme to pcie adapter. Keep in mind that nvme ssd's use at least 2, but ideally 4 pcie lanes. 

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You can get a m.2 to PCIe adapter card, which will allow motherboards without a native m.2 slot to use one of those SSD's. However, if your motherboard/platform is old, you may be unable to boot from the m.2 drive.

 

Adapters like this: https://www.amazon.com/Mailiya-M-2-PCIe-3-0-Adapter/dp/B01N78XZCH/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1525884065&sr=1-5&keywords=m.2+pcie+adapter

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What motherboard? What do you do with your pc? If it's just storing OS and apps a SATA ssd is fine.

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