Recent content by XartaX

Thanks. Money isn't really an issue so that's fine. I can't really see much of a difference between the two boards specwise (although the gaming 9 seems to have lots of gimmicks), but the Gaming-9 board has dualbios (although I'd prefer separate BIOS you could manually swap between, like the...

"Distances between slots are standardized." I see, I didn't know it was standardized across different sizes as well. Thank you! I did find another board, which looks interesting: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z270-WS/overview/ It seems to have the U.2 port directly on the board, which...

I mean I'm worried the graphics card won't be able to fit in with the cooler on my CPU, since it's rather large. My case is very modular so it has no problem accommodating both large and small boards. Here's how it look at the moment, and that's on an eATX card: Don't you think there will...

Got anything to add? If not I suppose I could just get the ASRock U2 kit as well just to be safe. Although I'm a bit worried about the size of the board like mentioned. Hmmmm.

Reading the specs: https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z270M%20Extreme4/index.asp#Specification This: "- 1 x Ultra M.2 Socket (M2_2), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s)" Is a key M slot I assume, which is what I...

Well, first of all the m2 slot would at least need to be Key M I assume, since that's what my old one is (not key E). Additionally, though: On the product page (https://www.asus.com/Motherboard-Accessory/Hyper_Kit/) of the adapter it only lists the following platforms as supported: Z170 H170...

I can't really find any adapters like that for z270 boards. I found the z270 classified K board, which includes a direct U2 connection, but sadly it's not currently being sold in my country. Unless anyone else have a good alternative I guess I have to go for the z170 again :/

Oh, fair enough. Dunno if it's worth upgrading my processor at this point. So it's just the u2 thing, then.

@SkyNetRising Thank you. Yeah, SLI support would be nice. One thing I forgot: The 750 SSD has a mini-SAS interface (I believe it's called U2?). For my z170 I'm using the ASUS Hyper kit to solve this (https://www.asus.com/Motherboard-Accessory/Hyper_Kit/). However, I don't believe that's...

Hi. I'm fairly sure my Motherboard is on it's last legs, and I need a replacement. This post will be divided into two parts since it's fairly complicated. 1. describing my problem and seeing if you agree with my assessment that it's the motherboard that's broken. 2. Listing my requirements for...

Yeah, the SSD isn't being detected. I asked about it on the EVGA forum and was told the hyper kit is motherboard specific. http://forums.evga.com/Classified-4way-not-detecting-SSD-during-windows-install-m2448292.aspx And yeah, it's plugged in to that one. Not the one that is the closest to the...

Well, I got all the parts went ahead and built it etc... But found out the hyper kit isn't compatible with the evga motherboard, so I'm kinda screwed now. Going to try to return the SSD and get the AIC version I can plug directly into a pcie slot.

A'ight, thanks mate. I'll mark your answer :)

Uuh, so the answer is yes go for the newest one if I use m.2->u.2 adapter, right?

Aaah, I see. I guess the newest one (PCI-Express 3.0 x4) is the one I want if I'm planning to use an m.2->u.2 adapter? Seems obvious but just want to be 100% sure before I fork over the cash, hah. Thanks.