@Glavir
The NMVe x4 card will work in x16 slots without any problem. I just looked at the Asus P8Z77-V Pro manual and it shows slot 2 and 5 (the upper two PCIe x16 slots) as PCIe 3.0 or 2.0 (PCIe 3.0 with your 3770K). You can put the NVMe card in slot 5 and keep your video card in slot 2. If your video card currently runs in x16 mode, it will probably drop to x8 mode with the NVMe card in slot 5. Running the NVMe SSD in a PCIe 2.0 slot will definitely slow it down.

I recommend that you go into the BIOS and check the “Advanced” tab for your PCI express x16 slot settings. Default is probably “Auto”, so set the PCIe slot for your video card to PCIe 2.0 (or Gen2) and the PCIe slot for your NVMe card to PCIe 3.0 (or Gen3). The manual shows options of “Auto”, “Gen1”, or “Gen2” for these two slots; so “Gen1” must be PCIe 2.0 and “Gen2” must be PCIe 3.0, as there is no PCIe 1.0 on this motherboard.

I have an Asrock Z77 motherboard set up the same way with a 3770K and it works great (and it shows “Auto”, “Gen2”, or “Gen3” for the same two PCIe x16 slots).

Hello to everyone that has contributed to this post!!!

I...like everyone else on this post have a nvme ssd and pci dapter that wont boot on my x79 board.
so after much searching i found win-raid and immediately joined without reading the rules in the welcome portal.

@Fernando my apologies for sending you a pm!!!
Should have read everything.

I have followed the start post and have modded my bios by following every step and will test tonight after work.
It was allot easier than I thought it would be.

Great step by step guide Dieter!!!

I will let every one know what my results are.

Cheers

I translated the guide with Google translator, leaving the content open with some room for interpretation.
I have created the MOD file.
NvmExpressDxe_3.ffs inserted after the last DXE driver.

When uncompressed NvmExpressDxe_3.ffs, a Chinese letter series is added after saving. Is that OK? Should I flashing?
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That's a great tutorial, I succeeded with my laptop, ASUS G751JT. There is something I have to add here, first I used WinPE and Windows installer to install the system on my nvme ssd, and second I used windows installation flash to repair boot. And it works. I didn't figure it out, why can't I directly install windows with the installation flash? Perhaps it's because I was using legacy before, not sure... If someone can help me out I'd appreciate it.

Hey Fernando,

To be perfectly honest, I got confused and followed another guide (I've had a lot of tabs open in the last few days!). I'll try your tutorial, though, and see how it works.

Any reason it needs to be Windows 10? I'd actually like to put Linux on the SSD. I might have a Windows 7 disk around somewhere I could test with, at least....

Thanks again! I'll let you know how it goes.

Ok, I followed your guide up to the Windows installation part, reinstalled the bootloader on the new SSD, and now it mostly works! There's still some kind of boot problem, but I think it's a Linux problem at this point, not a UEFI one.

For anyone else reading up on this, unplugging the other hard drives seems to have been really important!

My windows is 7 how would I use hyper x as storage drive motherboard is x79a-gd45 plus

Hyper x predator its pcie I do have win 10 to it Im using 7 cause a game wouldnt work on 10 and the didnt ssd wouldnt show up in my system on 10 i was asking cause maybe somebody can tell me how to make it show up on 10

Just to finish following up -- this guide worked perfectly for a GA-x79-UP4 motherboard, using F7 BIOS.