I have an Asrock Z77 Extreme4 motherboard that I am thinking of getting an m.2 NVMe drive for to use as the boot drive. My current boot drive is a 256 gig Crucial M4 SATA SSD. I know the Z77 chipset does not natively support booting from an NVMe drive, but Asrock has released a beta BIOS for this board which supposedly adds the capability. I have been reading on forums mixed reports of others’ experience with this. There are reports of it messing up the UEFI interface of the BIOS and some people are mentioning having to mod the BIOS, but I can’t tell if these reports are from before the official Asrock beta BIOS was released.
Do you think it’s worth trying to add an NVMe boot drive to this aging motherboard? The other thing to consider is that I would have to buy an m.2 to PCIe adapter to plug the drive into the secondary PCIe slot on the board, meaning my Vega 56 would drop from 16 lanes to 8 lanes of PCIe, though from what I have read the performance difference between x16 and x8 is negligible. Any thoughts?
Do you think it’s worth trying to add an NVMe boot drive to this aging motherboard? The other thing to consider is that I would have to buy an m.2 to PCIe adapter to plug the drive into the secondary PCIe slot on the board, meaning my Vega 56 would drop from 16 lanes to 8 lanes of PCIe, though from what I have read the performance difference between x16 and x8 is negligible. Any thoughts?