M.2 PCI-e To PCI-e 3.0 x4 Card on old system

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Yep. But I don't see any real advantage for doing this. Sure, it may benchmark at nearly 2GB/s (the x4 will be limited to half speed because of PCIe 2.0 instead of 3.0) but no performance difference will be noticeable vs. a regular 2.5" SATA SSD, even when hobbled by your SATA-300 ports. After all seek time (latency) isn't much different, plus running antivirus on a 10 year old CPU means you won't even see the extra bandwidth in use. It's not worth getting a x1 SATA-600 card (limited to 500MB/s), or going RAID-0 with multiple SATA SSDs for the same reason.

It just seems like little gain for the waste of the only x16 slot, and the money would be better applied toward a more modern platform. It's understandable if you wanted...
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oh i was planning to install the os on it. i would need to install the os on a different drive then right?
 
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Yep. But I don't see any real advantage for doing this. Sure, it may benchmark at nearly 2GB/s (the x4 will be limited to half speed because of PCIe 2.0 instead of 3.0) but no performance difference will be noticeable vs. a regular 2.5" SATA SSD, even when hobbled by your SATA-300 ports. After all seek time (latency) isn't much different, plus running antivirus on a 10 year old CPU means you won't even see the extra bandwidth in use. It's not worth getting a x1 SATA-600 card (limited to 500MB/s), or going RAID-0 with multiple SATA SSDs for the same reason.

It just seems like little gain for the waste of the only x16 slot, and the money would be better applied toward a more modern platform. It's understandable if you wanted to be able to move the NVMe drive over to a newer system later, but having to buy a separate SSD to boot from now anyway means it's more reasonable to put off the purchase of the NVMe drive entirely until then.
 
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i did not realize it used my x16 slot? but anyway im not going to get it and yah i was going to move the NVMe to a new system latter and hay my cpu is not 10 years old its only 7 years old lol (q9500) the cool thing is i dont need to buy much to upgrade only the cpu, ram, storage, motherboard, maybe power supply, would need new os though or go with 6 gen cpu so i can use win7 but yah i now i need a new system buying the 1050 really helped a lot in performance and my Samsung evo 120gig is just to small lol



 
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Well you sure don't have a x4 slot to put it into so you'd have to use the x16 + lose the 1050. Or you could probably break off the back of the x1 slot and have it work it in there, but that would limit things to 500MB/s.

Yep, that's the very last Core 2 Quad ever released, 3 years after the 1st one. I compressed an old 64GB SSD on a Core 2 system and didn't notice any difference in performance (Tom's did a test and concluded the compression of the OS SSD drive doesn't really impair performance) so you may consider doing that until your big system upgrade. Don't expect much: Win 7 system files only compress around 17.5% but your program files may be more compressible.
 
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thanks bfg i will wait! i will just install an old 500gig hdd for more space until i upgrade
 
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