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leisure.mello

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I am entirely new to NVMe PCIe ssd's, and UserBenchmark shows that my current motherboard is incompatible with the new ssd I am planning to purchase: SSD LINK

However, I cannot find any indication of incompatibility on its product page and would like some help figuring it out.
This is my motherboard: LINK

Is it incompatible in the sense that it cannot be used as a boot drive?
If that's the case, would it still be possible to only use it as a storage?

Thanks in advance.
 
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It should be compatible with your board, you have a gen 3 x4 M.2 slot. User benchmark can be used to tell you if certain parts are compatible with your board? Can you screenshot where it says it is incompatible and post it? It's probably wrong.

Do you currently have a SATA SSD? If so don't expect an NVME drive like the 970 pro to make a noticeable difference in things like boot times, app launch times, game load times, etc. It wont be much faster than a good SATA SSD in tasks like that. That drive excels at sequential read and writes, so for example moving a large amount of data from one NVME drive to another.
 
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Thanks for the input. I have a 960 pro, but this upgrade is mainly for increased storage size.
Here's the screenshot from UserBenchmark:
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And here's the link to comparison page if you'd like to check it yourself: LINK

Maybe the (Beta) notation means that the ssd is too recent to have any compatibility information on UserBenchmark?
I'm not sure.
 
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