- Mar 20, 2021
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Hi Experts,
I need some help please. I have an old-ish Asus Maximus IX Hero motherboard with PCI-E 3.0. Looking for an NVMe SSD upgrade as my current Hynix 256GB just doesn't cut it any more. I wanted to buy the Samsung 970 Pro 1TB (MZ-V7P1T0) which is one of the fastest PCI-E 3.0 SSDs but the price is £219. I then looked at the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB (MZ-V8P1T0BW) for £189 but that is PCI-E 4.0. Is it worth getting the 980 Pro or is it not backwards compatible? Will it run as fast as a 970 Pro would or it would be slower?
Many thanks for your help!
Krisztian
I need some help please. I have an old-ish Asus Maximus IX Hero motherboard with PCI-E 3.0. Looking for an NVMe SSD upgrade as my current Hynix 256GB just doesn't cut it any more. I wanted to buy the Samsung 970 Pro 1TB (MZ-V7P1T0) which is one of the fastest PCI-E 3.0 SSDs but the price is £219. I then looked at the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB (MZ-V8P1T0BW) for £189 but that is PCI-E 4.0. Is it worth getting the 980 Pro or is it not backwards compatible? Will it run as fast as a 970 Pro would or it would be slower?
Many thanks for your help!
Krisztian