H270F support NVMe M.2 Boot Drive?

[JeepBrute]

I searched the www for quite a while and cannot find the answer to this question:

Does the ASUS STRIX H270F GAMING mobo support booting from the NVMe M.2 drive?

Specifically using Win10x64 via any 960 EVO/Pro ssd.

I found no definitive answer from the manufacturer site: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-H270F-GAMING/specifications/

This site didn't clearly specify NO, but implied NO in a vague comparison chart (same can be said when comparing from the Mfg site): https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-H270F-GAMING/specifications/

This site clearly says YES, but my gut tells me the site got its facts wrong... https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/products/info/2806592

The reason I ask is because I like the idea of booting from NVMe and taking advantage of its benefits even if they are small compared to standard SSD. Otherwise, the M.2 would only serve a compact substitute for game storage on the H270F. The H270F provides 20 PCIe lanes total, which would allow full support GTX-1070 at x16, and still have enough lanes to support “PCIe 3 x4 Mode”, which could theoretically take advantage of 32Gbs for the OS. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Seanie280672]

I searched the www for quite a while and cannot find the answer to this question:

Does the ASUS STRIX H270F GAMING mobo support booting from the NVMe M.2 drive?

Specifically using Win10x64 via any 960 EVO/Pro ssd.

I found no definitive answer from the manufacturer site: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-H270F-GAMING/specifications/

This site didn't clearly specify NO, but implied NO in a vague comparison chart (same can be said when comparing from the Mfg site): https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-H270F-GAMING/specifications/

This site clearly says YES, but my gut tells me the site got its facts wrong... https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/products/info/2806592

The reason I ask is because I like the idea of booting from NVMe and taking advantage of its benefits even if they are small compared to standard SSD. Otherwise, the M.2 would only serve a compact substitute for game storage on the H270F. The H270F provides 20 PCIe lanes total, which would allow full support GTX-1070 at x16, and still have enough lanes to support “PCIe 3 x4 Mode”, which could theoretically take advantage of 32Gbs for the OS. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks in advance!

Yes you can boot from it, pretty pointless to have such a fast drive that you couldnt boot from, I just brought one a couple of days ago from Scan too, installed it in my computer on Saturday and put windows 10 on it, the difference in boot times is like going from a mechanical hard drive to an SSD, about 10 seconds from switching on im at the desktop

However, one thing that confused me is I couldnt find the drive in the bios anywhere, I was looking around for it, so I shut down my computer and unplugged all other hard drives, still couldnt see it, then throught to myself, well its not really an SATA drive as such as it uses the PCI express lanes, so just plugged in my USB stick containing windows, and proceeded to the install setup, Windows setup could see it, what a relief, installed windows on it in about 1-2mins, I watched the % fly up, then upon restart I then removed my USB stick and went back into the bios to boot devices, it now appeared in the list, selected it and then continued with the next part of the setup.

So I installed mine in the 2nd nvme M.2 slot without thinking about it, as I wanted it in view, as the first slot is hidden by my graphics card, I ran a benchmark once everything was setup and was only getting half read speeds, later realised that the 2nd slot only runs at x2 PCI-e mode, moved it to the first slot under my GFX card and full speed ahead.

Also something to note, is using an nvme drive, some of your sata ports and/or PCI-express slots get disabled, for me it was my 3rd PCI-e x16 lane (the bottom one) where I had my soundcard, so I had to move this too.

First thing to do once you've finished installing windows is install the Samsung nvme driver and reboot, get it from their website: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html

 

[Seanie280672]

This is nearly a full drive, 97gb remaining, I want to get another and RAID0 them together to get the faster write speeds, as you'll see from the picture, ive lost hardly any performance considering its almost full.

Video here, powered on computer when you see the blue light on the monitor: https://youtu.be/V4azWiBh1cc