I currently have an LGA1150 / DDR3 based system that works well but I need more disk speed. I bought a Samsung 970 NVMe card and an adaptor board that works, but sadly doesn't boot up much faster than a standard 850 SSD. I therefore would like to find a motherboard that will take my i5-4670K, 4x4GB of memory, and the 970 natively. I also need 8 or more SATA3 disk ports onboard.
The ASRock Z97 Extreme6 looks perfect, but it is 5 years old and unobtainable now, unless I can find a working second-hand one.
Do you know of any other motherboard that would fit the bill and is still available? I'd rather not have to upgrade the whole system but I can't find one so I thought I'd check with you experts before abandoning the idea and saving up for a major upgrade.
The ASRock Z97 Extreme6 looks perfect, but it is 5 years old and unobtainable now, unless I can find a working second-hand one.
Do you know of any other motherboard that would fit the bill and is still available? I'd rather not have to upgrade the whole system but I can't find one so I thought I'd check with you experts before abandoning the idea and saving up for a major upgrade.
although 1) that's why I'm only thinking about replacing the motherboard, 2) while I'm talking about boot speed as it is fairly constant, everything else will speed up as well, 3) it should measure nearer 3000MB/s when working natively (rather than in my adaptor board) so the speed increase should be greater, and 4) Samsung have told me that it will run slower in an adaptor board than natively.