Z97x gaming 5 M.2 slot speed

[robinthesouth]

Does anybody know if this motherboards M.2 slot is PCI-E 3.0 (x4) or not as some motherboards only support SATA 6Gbps speeds or PCI-e x 2 lanes as I want to use a Samsung SM951 256GB ssd for a boot drive and get full speed and in the manual it said You’ll also lose the ability to use SATA ports 4 and 5 if you use the M.2 or SATA Express port but I don't use ports 4 and 5 so it don't bother me

 

[NeverBackDown]

It's a 10gbps m.2 slot. It's faster than the 6gbps Sata 3. Very few boards have the PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 slots currently.

Only one off the top of my head would be ASRock Z97 Extreme6

 

[Excalabur50]

Something to remember is the more slots you have populated the slower the ssd will perform so if you have 2x graphics cards and a soundcard plugged in don't expect blistering speeds

 

[robinthesouth]

Thanks for your replies I'll buy a normal SSD