Yeah, I'm not overly picky. I have a board with one or two PCI-E x4 NVMe sockets on it (Gigabyte AORUS PRO WIFI B450 ATX), but I'm still using a SATA 2.5" SSD.
TBH, most of the time, the differences between a fast NVMe drive, and a fast SATA drive, are a bit overstated. Benchmarks are one thing, real-world usage and performance is another.
Those blindingly-fast sequential performance rates, may not manifest themselves that much in real-world usage, surely not if you're copying files between SSD and HDD, or NAS over 1GbE, certainly.
And the 4KQD1 scores, between fast NVMe drives, are not THAT much faster than on a fast SATA drive. And some experts claim that that particular benchmark best represents "daily driver feel" for an SSD.
Don't get me wrong, NVMe surely IS faster, and "feels faster", most of the time. But try to be aware of your use cases and budget. In my case, I didn't feel the need to go and blow 3-4X the cost on a Samsung NVMe drive, just to achieve 30-50% faster "feel" operating my PC. A SATA SSD is perfectly responsive for my needs. (Although, a DRAM-less SSD can feel sluggish at times. Avoid DRAM-less and bottom-of-the-barrel SATA drives.)
The Intel 660p NVMe drives are interesting, because, they aren't as stellar fast as the Samsung 970 EVO / Pro, but they aren't any more expensive, really, than SATA SSDs, and for that, you do get 2-3X the performance of SATA in most cases. (The endurance issue of QLC NAND is still an open question, I think.)
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