Question are my motherboard compatible with a ssd with pci slot

[Kalari42]

I have this motherboard https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z77P-D3-rev-11/sp#sp and looking for a new HD and i found this https://www.newegg.com/intel-660p-series-2tb/p/N82E16820167461 but im not sure if they are compatible

 

[PC Tailor]

Welcome to the forums my friend!

Your motherboard does not have an M.2 PCIe slot to support the SSD out of the box.

However IMO you're better off just getting a standard SATA SSD anyway as you won't have any benefit going to NVMe anyway.

 

[Calvin7]

Intel 660p M.2 2280 2TB NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4

Motherboard does not have any BIOS support for booting from NVMe storage. It also has no M.2 storage drive connector.

You would need a third party BIOS mod or software such as Clover to boot from an NVMe drive.
[Guide] NVMe-boot without modding your UEFI/BIOS (Clover-EFI ...

 

[Kalari42]

Thanks for the answers, got myself a standard SATA SS instead.