Samsung 960 Pro on an i7-4790k MSI H97 E35 MOBO

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Hey guys I was wondering if someone could help me and tell me if I could use a Samsung 960 Pro on my MSI H97 E35 mobo as a boot drive even though it does not have a m.2 slot.

I was wondering if it would work if I would use a pcie x4 m.2 adapter something like this https://www.asus.com/au/Motherboard-Accessory/HYPER_M2_X4_MINI_CARD/

Any advice from this community would be greatly appreciated.

 

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if anyone requires any additional information to answer this question, dont hesitate to ask.

 

[failboat]

You might be able to get it working on the PCIE 3.0x16 Addin slot as storage but probably not as boot. I doubt that board supports NVME boot, let alone from an addin slot. I wouldn't recommend going for it on anything prior to Skylake.

 

[Calvin7]

You only have one PCI Express x16 slot which likely is used for a video card.

No motherboard NVMe support means you need third-party modified BIOS or software such as Clover to support NVMe.

Compatible Models for the card you list are:
ASUS Z170/H170/X99/Z97/H97/B85 series motherboard models

 

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would i be able to use a samsung 850 pro then?