asus m5a88-v

I would like to add a SSD for the boot partition to my older motherboard, to improve speed. I use Win7 64, but I wish to upgrade to Win10. My ASUS M5A88-V does not have an M.2 interface. I am wondering if a PCIe adapter would work : SSD should be the boot partiton. The BIOS version is 1701...