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Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:51 pm

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I have an Asus P67pro mobo with an i2600k riding in it. I need a new SSD and I'd like something PCIe fast. I *think* that I can do the following:

1) Get a Samsung 950 Pro M2 drive and install it in an M2 to Pcie adapter.
2) Put it in a PCIe slot and set my UEFI to boot from an add-in card
3) Enjoy PCIe speeds and migrate the drive to a newer Mobo/CPU when I get one.

I know that the SSD will only be running at PCIe 2.0 speeds, but it still should be faster than a SATA ssd.

Can anyone confirm that this will work? Has anyone done it?

Thanks in advance,
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:57 pm

I know that the SSD will only be running at PCIe 2.0 speeds, but it still should be faster than a SATA ssd.

I doubt you would even notice the difference. SATA is is fast enough for the vast majority of use cases for the foreseeable future.
 
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Tue Jan 12, 2016 3:36 pm

Looking at your sig, I would put that money towards a bigger display and/or GPU
 
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Tue Jan 12, 2016 3:45 pm

Agreed. If you've got an SSD already, then you're already most of the way there in regards to storage. NVMe does make for a faster drive, but you'll need to be running tasks a lot more storage intensive than gaming in order to see it.
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Sat May 07, 2016 3:52 pm

Yes, got one today with lycom adapter. Seen in bios boot options, recognised in windows 10. Used rufus to create gpt ntfs usb3 install stick. It boots, it is much faster than my samsung 840 pro. It would be even better in pcie3 mobo!
 
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Wed May 11, 2016 4:15 pm

New to posting on forums so dont know the protocols. Anyway, in answer to your question, yes. It will work, mine does, i have the same mobo and the latest bios.
 
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Wed May 11, 2016 5:10 pm

I just picked up the drive from Newegg. (note to Canadian Gerbils; it's currently on sale for for $269CDN incl tax and shipping). Will let you know how the install goes.

I'm worried that I'll have to update my bios in order to get it to boot from the PCIe slot, thus causing me to lose the settings for the most stable, reliable o/c that I've ever had.
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Wed May 11, 2016 5:32 pm

The thing that makes your OS boot snappier is low-queue-depth 4K read performance. The 950 Pro is one of the best drives on the market for this, and it's still a good way off the 150MB/s limit of SATA I, let alone SATA II, SATA III or PCIe x2...
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Tue May 24, 2016 1:19 pm

Just to close out this forum thread:

I installed the 950 pro in an addonics adapter card and put it in my machine. The UEFI bios offered me an option to boot to it. I installed windows 10 and it was an easy setup. I didn't even update my bios to the latest version (some Asus bios' are more O/C friendly than others and I didn't want to mess up the excellent O/C I currently have). All-in-all this was one of the most problem free installations I've ever had.

The 950pro gets about 850MB/s in both atto and crystalmark, a good deal faster than any sata SSD, though obviously not even half as fast as it would be in a PCIe3 slot. It boots Windows very quickly, and the interface is very snappy to use. The real benefit was in application performance. I use all the Adobe CC apps and watching Photoshop or Premiere light up so quickly is a thing of awe.

This wasn't a cheap upgrade, it cost me around $280CAD for the SSD and the adapter, but its very future proof and delivered another level of performance. I can't imagine how fast a system with a 950 pro in a proper PCIe3 slot paired with an current gen i7 and some fast DDR4 ram would be. As well, if you are just gaming, an HDD-less system with a 950pro and a 1tb Mushkin SSD would be pretty badass.

Thanks to Mrm for the heads up on how he did the same installation.
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Fri Jun 24, 2016 11:59 am

I just recently got to use a 950 Pro in a PCIe 3.0 x4 adapter card as well. You will have throttling problems unless you modded the 950 with a heatsink or explicitly install Samsung's custom NVMe driver for it from http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/mi ... tools.html The difference in testing is startling, especially for AS SSD and PCMark. I didn't get to try CDM though.
 
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:11 am

Sorry to "reopen" this post again. 

I've got a P67 Pro3 SE (yes I know, quite an old lady) and I was able to install Windows 10 on my m2 (on my Mobo via Pcie adapter) but I can't boot to it. 

Any ideas?

Thanks!,
Exo
 
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Tue Jan 24, 2017 4:41 am

H Exo
Sorry to take so long to reply.
You need to go into your mobo bios and find the section where you select the order of devices to boot from. I forget what the M2 device in PCIe slot appears as, it might be 'other PCI device'or some such but you need to select it as the primary boot device. Also note, the M2/PCI SSD will only be available when it is installed in the system.

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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:44 am

ExoOne wrote:
Sorry to "reopen" this post again. 

I've got a P67 Pro3 SE (yes I know, quite an old lady) and I was able to install Windows 10 on my m2 (on my Mobo via Pcie adapter) but I can't boot to it. 

Any ideas?

Thanks!,
Exo

If not already then you will probably need to update to the latest BIOS to enable booting to M.2 drives.
 
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Re: Boot from 950 Pro on P67 Mobo

Fri Jan 27, 2017 5:58 am

Kougar wrote:
ExoOne wrote:
Sorry to "reopen" this post again. 

I've got a P67 Pro3 SE (yes I know, quite an old lady) and I was able to install Windows 10 on my m2 (on my Mobo via Pcie adapter) but I can't boot to it. 

Any ideas?

Thanks!,
Exo

If not already then you will probably need to update to the latest BIOS to enable booting to M.2 drives.

Thanks for your help.
I already flashed version 2.20 on it and now I do have UEFI boot. But I can't find the option to boot from PCIe.

Thanks,
Exo

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