Motherboard NVMe support

Nintenrax

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Jan 30, 2015
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I have been searching around for some motherboards and I suddenly stumbled upon a question:

How do I know if my motherboard supports NVMe drives? As I understand it, the motherboard doesn't have to specifally support NVMe to use it as a secondary drive. However, when you want to use it as a boot drive the motherboard has to support it.

Which leads me back to my question. I have been looking at some MSI motherboards for example, but to me it's not always clear if they support NVMe or not. If anyone has could offer me some more information about this I would be very thankfull.
 
I know the MSI Z97 and X99 motherboards got NVMe support. Some of ASUS' boards also got support for NVMe. It's just not always clear to me if a board support NVMe based on the product specifications/manuals.