Do new motherboards all support NVMe M.2?

Ragingsilver

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This is really embarrassing for me to ask but I can't seem to find the right answer from browsing motherboards on OCUK site or watching youtube videos.

So I'm doing some research on upgrading to a Ryzen build in the future, bare in mind the last time I built a PC was some 10 years ago and have not kept up with the scene as such. I watched a few youtube videos about m.2 and wanted to get a motherboard that supports it. Here's the issue I bumped into, I realised there are two formats: NVMe and PCI-E versions. Both with different connector types on the bottom of them.

Having browsed a few motherboards, cheap and expensive, they all seem to just say "m.2". One youtuber mentioned a motherboard that has both of these connector types on the board itself. Am I to assume all new motherboards support both formats now? or is this an Intel thing? or what?


Any help on making this clearer will help. Thanks in advance.
 
Ragingsilver said:
This is really embarrassing for me to ask but I can't seem to find the right answer from browsing motherboards on OCUK site or watching youtube videos.

So I'm doing some research on upgrading to a Ryzen build in the future, bare in mind the last time I built a PC was some 10 years ago and have not kept up with the scene as such. I watched a few youtube videos about m.2 and wanted to get a motherboard that supports it. Here's the issue I bumped into, I realised there are two formats: NVMe and PCI-E versions. Both with different connector types on the bottom of them.

Having browsed a few motherboards, cheap and expensive, they all seem to just say "m.2". One youtuber mentioned a motherboard that has both of these connector types on the board itself. Am I to assume all new motherboards support both formats now? or is this an Intel thing? or what?


Any help on making this clearer will help. Thanks in advance.
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NVM Express (NVMe) or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCIS) is an open logical device interface specification for accessing non-volatile storage media attached via a PCI Express (PCIe) bus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express
 
M.2 is a only a connector format and it can run both PCI-E (NVMe) or SATA 6Gb. PCI-E/NVMe are far faster than SATA.

For example:

Mobo with 1x M.2 slot capable of BOTH PCI-E/NVMe and SATA and 1x M.2 slot capable of ONLY PCI-E/NVMe
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ocket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-56x-gi.html

M.2 SATA drive
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/king...id-state-drive-sm2280s3g2-120g-hd-097-ks.html

M.2 PCI-E/NVMe Drive
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...-3.0-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-hd-23m-sa.html
 
The different formats are PCIe and SATA. That's all you need to check when buying an M.2 NVME
PCIe started being supported around the time of the Z97 chipset which was a long time ago, so these days all the modern boards I know about support PCIe and SATA on the M.2
Some boards though, with multiple M.2 sockets, not all the sockets support PCIe. But then most people only have one PCIe NVMe, so that's not a problem.
 
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