Question Does my motherboard support NVMe SSDs ?

[gabbagabbahey]

I have an Asus P6X58D-E motherboard with standard bios (0803).
Will an M.2 NVMe SSD via a PCIe slot work ?
I don't want to boot from it, I just need it for storage, and I'm not keen on modding the bios.

I'm asking because I had read something about the board not supporting NVMe SSDs, but my memory is hazy.

 

[Colif]

No, that motherboard was created before nvme were a thing
Its from 2010

P6X58D-E - Support

www.asus.com

You don't have the right slots.

even installing one in a pci slot in a caddy type thing wouldn't run all that well. Your CPU is too slow to take advantage of the speed.

PC prior to about 2015 didn't really support nvme all that well, my last board (Z97) had nvme slots but the CPU was too slow to really take advantage of them. I never bothered.

 

[kanewolf]

I have an Asus P6X58D-E motherboard with standard bios (0803).
Will an M.2 NVMe SSD via a PCIe slot work ?
I don't want to boot from it, I just need it for storage, and I'm not keen on modding the bios.

I'm asking because I had read something about the board not supporting NVMe SSDs, but my memory is hazy.

A SATA 2.5 inch SSD will provide 99% of the performance gain an NVMe would. It is the change from spinning to solid state that provides the greatest benefit.