Samsung 960 work on Asus mobo

[Vandyo]

Will a Samsung 960 Pro 256 GB with an M.2 PCI-E adapter work on asus m5a99fx Pro 2.0

 

[RealBeast]

While it will work, I cannot say that you will be able to use it as your boot device (and I suspect not -- but not for any other reason than the board is older and the last bios I see is from 2014 and may not support a PCIe boot device??).

What adapter are you using and which bios revision are you on to assist those who may have tried this already?

I'll ask some of the other users to drop by and opine on this further.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

It will work but only as fast storage. You need a special UEFI module to support booting from an NVMe drive and only a very few of the newest AM3 boards have the capability.

 

[Vandyo]

While it will work, I cannot say that you will be able to use it as your boot device (and I suspect not -- but not for any other reason than the board is older and the last bios I see is from 2014 and may not support a PCIe boot device??).

What adapter are you using and which bios revision are you on to assist those who may have tried this already?

I'll ask some of the other users to drop by and opine on this further.

 

[Vandyo]

bios is 2501 and plan to use the asus accessory Hyper M.2 X4 Mini Card M.2 to 32Gbit/s with PCIE slot

 

[Deleted member 217926]

You might have noticed my reply above? it's correct. 😉

 

[RealBeast]

bios is 2501 and plan to use the asus accessory Hyper M.2 X4 Mini Card M.2 to 32Gbit/s with PCIE slot

Yup, and the consensus is that while you can use it, you cannot BOOT from it. So really no point, you would be better off with a SATA SSD.