PCIe SSD compatibility issue

thewisecarver · Apr 2, 2016

Hi there, I am building a new PC and was excited about this SSD card.

Is it compatible with this motherboard?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128838

This made me think it would:
Expansion Slots
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
* For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x8 (PCIEX8)
* The PCIEX8 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX16 slot. When the PCIEX8 slot is populated, the PCIEX16 slot will operate at up to x8 mode.
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)
* The PCIEX4 slot shares bandwidth with the M2H_32G connector. The PCIEX4 slot will become unavailable when an SSD is installed in the M2H_32G connector.
- 4 x PCI Express x1 slots
(All of the PCI Express slots conform to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)

Tbonius · Apr 2, 2016

Are you planning on using pciex4?

wildfire707 · Apr 2, 2016

This is pretty common for most socket 115x motherboards. If you put a PCIE SSD in the M2 slot the last PCIE x16 slot on the motherboard will be disabled (on that motherboard it is the third PCIE x16 slot).

noidea_77 · Apr 2, 2016

Seams to be NOT compatible! Take a look under "Top Critical Review" on the newegg page: "Using this product as a boot drive in Windows 10 proved to be unsatisfactory, at least with the Gigabyte Gaming G1 board. Updated to the latest Firmware & Bios for both products. Not sure if the SSD or the motherboard bios is the problem...." Only a few consumer board so far can boot from AIC SSDs. Beside that it's a wast of money. The SATA or M.2 version delivers the same speed and is compatible.

thewisecarver · Apr 2, 2016

wildfire707 :

I have a nice graphics card for the top PCIe x16 slot is all.

The bottom PCIe is x4 so I would use that? (even though the slot looks longer than the SSD card?)

wildfire707 · Apr 2, 2016

thewisecarver :

Some people use the last PCIE x16 slot for a sound card or RAID controller card. Most people just leave it empty

As far as your comment about the SSD card is concerned, you would not plug an SSD into that slot. The M2 slot is where you would plug in a PCIE SSD and the M2 slot is a horizontal slot with three screw mounts located close to the second PCIE x16 slot on that motherboard. As noidea_77 points out, this Gigabyte board seems to have trouble booting from a PCIE M2 SSD drive. So only a SATA M2 SSD drive would work, and that is not any faster than a normal 2.5" SATA SSD in speed.

thewisecarver · Apr 2, 2016

Tbonius :

no, just the top one

thewisecarver · Apr 2, 2016

wildfire707 :

thewisecarver :

Some people use the last PCIE x16 slot for a sound card or RAID controller card. Most people just leave it empty

As far as your comment about the SSD card is concerned, you would not plug an SSD into that slot. The M2 slot is where you would plug in a PCIE SSD and the M2 slot is a horizontal slot with three screw mounts located close to the second PCIE x16 slot on that motherboard. As noidea_77 points out, this Gigabyte board seems to have trouble booting from a PCIE M2 SSD drive. So only a SATA M2 SSD drive would work, and that is not any faster than a normal 2.5" SATA SSD in speed.

I have two normal Sata SSD drives for this rig, I was going to use the PCIe SSD for video when doing video editing. So I can't just drop it into the last PCIe-x4 slot?

wildfire707 · Apr 2, 2016

thewisecarver :

wildfire707 :

I have two normal Sata SSD drives for this rig, I was going to use the PCIe SSD for video when doing video editing. So I can't just drop it into the last PCIe-x4 slot?

You can put the PCIe SSD in the M2 slot if it is one like the Samsung 950 Pro.

thewisecarver · Apr 2, 2016

this is what it looks like: http://imgur.com/fim0jsk

that is not an M-slot device, is it?

wildfire707 · Apr 2, 2016

thewisecarver :

No, that is a normal PCIE card.

muniz_ri · Apr 3, 2016

thewisecarver :

It should work just fine and at full speed in the M.2 connectors or even any of the PCIe x16 slots if you wanted to go that route (don't know why you would with two available M.2 connectors) but you will need an M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter (http://www.amazon.com/Lycom-DT-120-PCIe-Adapter-Support/dp/B00MYCQP38?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00). Just make certain that you install Windows using UEFI.

noidea_77 · Apr 3, 2016

muniz_ri :

thewisecarver :

It should work just fine and at full speed in the M.2 connectors or even any of the PCIe x16 slots if you wanted to go that route (don't know why you would with two available M.2 connectors) but you will need an M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter (http://www.amazon.com/Lycom-DT-120-PCIe-Adapter-Support/dp/B00MYCQP38?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00). Just make certain that you install Windows using UEFI.

NO! The Intel 750 Series AIC 400GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 already has a PCI-E interface and needs no adapter! He can just plug it in one of the PCI-E 16x ports.

thewisecarver · Apr 3, 2016

noidea_77 :

muniz_ri :

NO! The Intel 750 Series AIC 400GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 already has a PCI-E interface and needs no adapter! He can just plug it in one of the PCI-E 16x ports.

Thanks, I guess I just looked at the size of the card and the PCIe slot and thought uh ohh this looks like a round hole, square peg situation. It just doesn't seem right to plug this card in to a full length PCIe when it has such a small interface.

noidea_77 · Apr 3, 2016

The PCI-E 16x slot works for for the short x1 cards, for the x4 cards, the x8 cards and the x16 cards od cause. No matter what card it is, it always starts as a x1 card, talks to the PCI-E controller an negotiates the max available bus width (x1, x4, x8 or x16).

thewisecarver · Apr 3, 2016

noidea_77 :

Thank you so much!

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