Yeah, my mb had an nvme m.2 slot, but it was pciex2, so the x4 card (most seem to be) didn't work. Why I went with an adapter.

The main thing lately is when I'm running a lot of containers/vms for workloads it tends to box down a little. Outside of that and 4k 3d, don't notice it ever. But the new stuff is only just starting to get better enough that I may upgrade next year sometime.