NVME Compatibility - Old Motherboard (2nd Gen Intel)

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Hi my friend at work has an old Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z. Which is 2nd gen Intel.
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_IV_GENEZ/

He would like to purchase an NVME drive and use it with his old board. Plan is to use a PCIe adaptor until he gets a new system later in the year that accepts M.2 drives.

I've used PCIe x4 adapters for NVME/SSD M.2 drives before, but on nothing this old.
Can anyone tell me if there will be any issues? I'm aware it's PCIe 2.0 rather than 3.0. I assume this will limit speeds a bit. Anything else I'm missing? Will it be easy for him to setup. He has limited PC knowledge.
 
Yeah he would want to boot from it I think. But I guess he could use it as a game drive temporarily, and boot off his current SSD (500gb) for a bit.
Would it show up as a secondary drive without a bios mod?
 
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Update and conclusion on this for anyone who's interested.
My friend received an adapter card and his WD Black NVMe. He initially had issues with it being recognised, we quickly diagnosed it was a Windows 7 issue. Not having the appropriate support for that sort of card.
Upgraded to Windows 10 and the drive was recognised straight away!
Performance is limited by PCIe 2.0, but still around double read speed of his current SATA SSD and about 10x the write speed.

Thanks for all the help. He's super pleased he's been able to upgrade to a component he can carry over into a new build in the near future.
 
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