No issues once everything was installed
Cooling is good for its size. Heatsink has rounded edges and I was able to install 2tb m.2 . Came with 3 thermal pads strips
It works as expected
upgraded old i5 2600k with the addition of a NVMe drive:D (and gtx1060). I plan to upgrade the motherboard and cpu with the next upgrade. But I could die before this machine gets slow.
- simple - functional - two brackets - inexpensive
Worked well and at Gen3 speeds (max my old board does) Cheap Easy to install Cheap Brought good new life to a aged machine running unraid No drivers needed. Unraid is Linux. Not tested booting windows on bare metal but VMs all work better than ever.
- Was able to just plug and play with existing drives/cables/ZFS pools facilitating the update on my home server/NAS system. - Performance seems as good/better than with old MoBo - No Linux issues
It works fr exactly what I needed. A PCIe card to host a m.2 at PCIe4.0 x4, I got 2.6gbs transfer speeds between this card and the cpu m.2. I will get more if needed. There is probably better cards for this but for the price, can not beat it. This is a true review, not AI, Steve
-Fits well in my tiny prebuild mini atx case. -no cable needed for power from the psu
Even on an older motherboard it was still detected.
Simple Installation. Comes with a screwdriver and a screw. Truly Plug & Play with Windows 10 if your Motherboard already has support for NVMe. Does not even look for a driver, it just works. Great way to add fast NVMe drives.
Installed m.2, plugged it in the PCI slot and fires it up. Drive showed up no fuss. Windows 11.
I was a little worried that I wouldn't be able to install the correct drivers as I don't have a disc drive on this pc. but windows was able to get it done without me doing anything.
This board installed quickly and was automatically configured by Windows 11. All standard usb ports are occupied and function nominally. Have not used USB-C ports yet but will soon and expect the same result.
-Very thin and fit perfectly in the exceptionally small space below my GPU -Much faster speeds for older PC builds -low price -heatsink included
just plug in and go. installed this with a samsung 980 in a msi x570 tomahawk , seems to be full speed, the board id the drive right out of the gate. card came with screws another plus. better than installing a drive on the board as you don't have to pull a bunch of hardware and fiddle with TINY screws way down in the case.