Recent content by hornirl

Z170 would get me DMI 3.0 and the PCIE 3.0 x4 lanes I'm looking for to x 2 NVME drive speed while keeping a PCIE 3.0 x 16 lanes for my GC, and it seems possible to use my current DDR3 RAM with something like an ASUS B150M-PLUS D3. That'd cost maybe 50, then a new CPU too (i7-6700K c150). And...

Thanks so much for this. I'd actually found the 1st article (link embedded in '(as described here) ') but not the 2nd -thanks. So given these restrictions, what I was looking for was never a possibility, since my only route to get the 4 lanes for the NVME drive was via the DMI 2.0 link, limited...

Tx- I should have probably made my reply clearer (I'll edit), it's the Extreme9 needed (rare, expensive @ 400), the Extreme6 just had me in right direction with the Ultra M.2 but unfortunately won't work.

Eureka! Thanks and God bless you! On the right trail there with Ultra M.2 and the ASRock Z97 Extreme6, just the extra distance to the Extreme9 never showed anywhere in any DB I looked at. Now this exotic creature- the ASRock Z97 Extreme9- has been tracked down I do see it in PCPartPicker, I may...

Looking to extend longevity of my current LGA1150 socket setup (Specs: H87M-PRO i5-4690k 16GB RAM Win 10), with cheapest mobo possible that can allow for an NVME drive using PCIE 3.0 x4 lanes. The kicker here is I want to keep the PCIE 3.0 1st slot at x16 lanes, for when I finally get that top...

I believe I did (I took all 8.1 MS updates neat). But impossible to say now for sure as I did a clean install of 10 from an ISO to try to fix the problem.

Most posts- including this one (see post # 3 here for more links)- suggest it's builds after 10130 for Windows 10. That's my experience too going from 8.1 to 10 where everything worked fine (G3258 OC'ed to 4.2GHz both cores) in 8.1 with all updates applied.