Your motherboard supports PCIe 3.0, so that is good, you will need to use either first or second PCIe slot (I suggest the second slot which is an x16 slot that gets limited to x8 when something in the the first slot, use the first slot for your video card)
You will also need to purchase an NVMe adaptor. Something like: https://www.amazon.com/YATENG-Controller-Expansion-Card-Support-Converter/dp/B07JJTVGZM or: https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL The second one allows you to throw in a second one in the future. You can search for other adaptors if you like, those looked fine from my very quick research though. On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 7:16 PM _ Winterlight <winterli...@outlook.com> wrote: > I am looking at a > < > https://www.amazon.com/Blue-SN550-1TB-NVMe-Internal/dp/B07YFFX5MD/ref=psdc_1292116011_t1_B073SB2MXT > > > Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, > M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 2,400 MB/s - WDS100T2B0C > but I am unclear if my motherboard will support it = Ausus P9X79 with > these specs > > 4 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (dual@x16/x16; Quad@x8/x8/x8/x8; Triple@x16/x8/x8) > 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (White@x4 speed) > * This motherboard is ready to support PCIe 3.0 SPEC. Functions will be > available when using PCIe 3.0-compliant devices > > Is Gen3 and PCe 3.0 the same thing? > > <w> >
