Sorry I know little about these things
I believe the 970 EVO is an NVMe (M.2), which is connected in the M.2 slot.
It's listed as PCIe 3.0 (interface, I believe) on Newegg, but I want to connect it to a M.2 slot which only support PCIe 2.0, would it work? (I know it will gut the speed)