can i use Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter on pcie 2.0

pedramtolo

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i have MB ASUS :M5A99FX pro r2 with CPU : AMD FX 9590 as you all know this MB only hase PICe 2.0 and also it has not m2.0 ether
and i want to buy Samsung 950 PRO Series - 256GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD
is there possible i buy Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter and use this SSD on it and attach them into one of MB's PCIe 2.0 ?
Does it works?
 
Solution
It will work but at lower speed. Although the speed difference wont be much noticable. You can go for it, it should work good. Can be a 5%-10% speed loss but nothing much.