Switching to M.2 SSD

[Clayton Moneymaker]

I'm a video editor and interested in making the switch to m.2 storage to take advantage of it's speeds. I'm aware I will need a new motherboard, I'm curious to see what kind of Motherboard you guys think would be appropriate? I'd be coming from a bit of an older model Asustek that I bought when my last motherboard fried due to bent pins. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By the way I currently have my build in a Stryker case. 32gb ram, running a Samsung 830 250gb SSD in raid with two 1tb HDD's. Any upgrade recommendations would be appreciated as well. It's a bit of a dated setup at this point and I'm just looking to increase productivity and speeds when editing in 4k.

 

[USAFRet]

This would be a whole new PC.

What parts do you have now?

 

[Clayton Moneymaker]

I have a fully assembled system at the moment, but I'm wondering if I could part my way up to m.2? Is there software like Speccy that could outline a detailed report of my components? It's been a couple of years since I pieced this one together and can't remember all the specifics.

 

[USAFRet]

I have a fully assembled system at the moment, but I'm wondering if I could part my way up to m.2? Is there software like Speccy that could outline a detailed report of my components? It's been a couple of years since I pieced this one together and can't remember all the specifics.

Speccy will show you what you have.
https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy

 

[Clayton Moneymaker]

This is what it shows:

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit

CPU
Intel Core i7 3770K @ 3.50GHz 37 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology

RAM
32.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 668MHz (9-9-9-24)

Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. BM6650_BM6350 (LGA1155) 28 °C

Graphics
S27E510 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (EVGA) 44 °C

Storage
238GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series ATA Device (SATA (SSD)) 26 °C
930GB Microsoft Storage Space Device (TMax (SSD))
931GB Western Digital WD My Passport 25E1 USB Device (USB (SATA) ) 32 °C
60GB Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device (USB )

Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40 ATA Device
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS90 ATA Device

 

[USAFRet]

Right. This thing? - https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Desktop/BM6650/
Your system is old enough to not have dedicated m.2 ports on the motherboard.
At best, you could use an m.2 NVMe drive in a PCIe slot. Suboptimal.

A new motherboard would basically require a whole new PC (except for the GPU).
Motherboard, RAM, CPU. Probably PSU and case as well.

 

[Clayton Moneymaker]

That may be where the motherboard came from. I have all the above components in a Stryker case right now. Is it not upgrade-able?

 

[USAFRet]

That may be where the motherboard came from. I have all the above components in a Stryker case right now. Is it not upgrade-able?

The case is probably OK. I don't know that one specifically.
But that's a minor consideration for the rest of it.

The problem here is, you can't change 'just the motherboard' to be able to fully utilize a current m.2 drive.
That CPU and board are a generation or two too old.

You'd have to move up to a newer gen motherboard. Which includes new CPU and DDR4 RAM.