bcavnaughSo then they would not work on the X79 Chipset as well, X79 Dark & Classified MBs? (As the OS Boot Device)I was looking at this one Plextor M8Pe AIC 256GB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) PX-256M8PeY.LinkThanks
EVGATech_RayHbcavnaughSo then they would not work on the X79 Chipset as well, X79 Dark & Classified MBs? (As the OS Boot Device)I was looking at this one Plextor M8Pe AIC 256GB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) PX-256M8PeY.LinkThanksOn X79 it should recognize the PCIe storage device in Windows, but it would not work as a boot device
rjohnson11It makes a good case for upgrading to an NVMe supported platform. The X58 is one of Intel's best chipsets and there is a lot you can do, but on the flip side of the coin there is a lot you can't do.
bg8780rjohnson11It makes a good case for upgrading to an NVMe supported platform. The X58 is one of Intel's best chipsets and there is a lot you can do, but on the flip side of the coin there is a lot you can't do.Agreed. I plan to upgrade to the X99 successor. This chip is still plenty powerful and still holds it's on against current platforms as evidenced here . As you said the architecture is outdated and a lot of newer tech is not support. My SSD's in RAID still net about 550mbps read/write. Good enough for gaming. Thanks for the answers everyone. I'll be waiting for EVGA's X99 motherboard successor ;)
bill1024I found this, did not try it myself. Not the Sabertooth but a similar ASUS board with a P6X58D Premium. But I made the Samsung 950 Pro work with it easy with an Asus M.2 PCI-E card and now also working with a riser cable due to space constraints. Speeds are of course PCI-E 2.0 at around 1700 mbps sequential read but still a huge increase in speeds.AFAIK the 950 Pro is the only NVMe drive that works with X58 without bios modding cause it has a Legacy Boot Option built in. The 960 Pro/EVO doesn't have this option AFAIK.Pics and instructions on this link,http://www.overclock.net/...lub/1690#post_25627797 http://www.overclock.net/...10300_50#post_25761833 https://www.asus.com/ca-e...HYPER_M2_X4_MINI_CARD/ https://audiocricket.com/...asus-p6t-se-mainboard/
devskYou can boot Linux from an NVME drive. The only thing you need is an initrd and kernel on a USB drive. The initrd loads a recent kernel with NVME support, which can find the NVME drive and mount it. Once mounted, the main system boots from the NVME drive.If you need Windows or Mac, you are SOL'ed.I run my Samsung Pro 960 like this on my X58. I get around 1800MB/s read and 1600MB/s write speeds with the board's ancient PCIe 2.0, which is about 3 times faster than the SSD speeds I get with Micron 550. So, not so shabby for a machine which is 8 years old right now.I had also made a post about this late last year.