Old Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard with M2 SSD - PCIe adapter?

versusliveact · Sep 24, 2017

Hi There!

I have an old Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard P35 Express Chipset.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-P35-DS4-rev-10#sp

Unfortunately the motherboard have only Sata 2 3Gb/s connectors,it is around 300mb/s speed.

But it have 2 PCI Express X16 slot(x16, x4)

I planning to use it with Western Digital Black SSD.

https://www.wdc.com/products/solid-state-drives/wd-black-pcie-ssd.html#WDS512G1X0C

Sequential Read/Write

Up to 2,050 MB/s Read
Up to 800 MB/s Write

I have seen this M2 PCI-E 3.0 x4 Adapter which can accept the SSD,with high speed.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCI-E-3-0-x4-Adapter-Converter-Card-M-2-NGFF-M-SSD-to-Nvme-PCIE-Express-AC765/162653204853?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

What do You think,will this work like in this video,with another pc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDRm0Y8pNMo

Thank You for your answer and suggestion!

Best wishes!

Calvin7 · Sep 24, 2017

P35 Chipset does not have PCIe 2.0 or 3.0. It also does not have BIOS support for NVMe storage.