Asus Socket 1155 and Bootable NVMe?

[phoenix32x]

Do any of the Asus socket 1155 Z77 motherboards support booting from an NVMe SSD?

Examples would be the Sabertooth Z77, Maximus V Gene, or P8Z77-V Pro with say the Intel 750 PCIe SSD Card or the new Samsung 950 Pro PCIe M.2 (in a card slot adapter or something).

With an Intel i7-3770K CPU and 16GB of Corsair Dominator DDR3 etc, I just don't see the value of the expense to update the CPU and memory etc to newer 1150 or 1151 sockets. However, I would really like to get away from the SATA bottleneck.

I actually have the above listed motherboards but see no way to do it.

Thanks in advance for your help/advice.

 

[ko888]

You would need a motherboard UEFI BIOS version that supports NVMe. If ASUS hasn't released a UEFI BIOS version with NVMe support for the specific motherboard then you're out of luck.

 

[phoenix32x]

I guess that is part of the question then? Do any of the Asus Z77 Motherboards have a BIOS update available that supports NVMe? Anyone know for sure?

They all have UEFI BIOS, but Asus is IMHO not real good about telling you all the updates/fixes they put in a new BIOS. Nor are they very good about publicly releasing all BIOSes they may have for a given motherboard.

 

[ko888]

ASUS never added NVMe support in UEFI BIOS to any of their Z77 chipset motherboards. September 28, 2014 was the last time they released a BIOS for a Z77 chipset motherboard.

No NVMe support for Z87 chipset motherboards either.

NVMe support in UEFI BIOS arrived in early 2015 beginning with the Z97 chipset motherboards.

 

[phoenix32x]

Well that stinks. I guess I am stuck with SATA then. There is just not enough upgrade yet to my i7-3770k to make the cost worth it.

Thank you for the information, I appreciate it.