Advice on NVME vs SSD on GA-Z68XP-UD3P motherboard

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Hi Guys,

My uncle has a relatively old PC but it does everything he needs it to do so a full upgrade is not needed. However he could do with a general speed increase for day to day use.

He has a GA-Z68XP-UD3P motherboard and i'm wondering if this supports NVME drives?

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z68XP-UD3P-rev-10/sp#sp

The MLB says it has 2 x PCIEX ports which I think is what he needs for NVME use? Or does this need to be a special PCIEX port to support NVME use?

He's got a graphics card in the x16 slot so really what i'm asking is would the x8 slot be ok for NVME use?
 
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Pastymuncher has it right, As per another recent thread, will only see a benefit from NVMe with certain workloads, your typical day to day tasks, gaming etc do not smash the storage subsystem so will not see a perceptible difference from a PCIe NVMe drive to a SATA based SSD.

Now in terms of curiosity, most (more so recent stuff) NVMe drives will want PCIe Gen 3.0 x 4 lanes. That board runs PCIe 2.0 so need to take that into account in terms of slot placement. Next and the most important point really is NVMe being a recent protocol. older stuff may not support it. In case, you need a UEFI platform so I believe with Intel support only goes back to X99 for full support (X79 supports it but can't boot from it) for mainstream it goes back to z87 I believe.

That socket 1155 and platform does not support NVMe and none of the manufactures have supported it. or released BIOS updates to support it. May be able to get it to appear as a storage device with some messing around I imagine, but definitely not as a bootable device.
 
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