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Xiwai Low Profile PCI-E 3.0 x1 Lane to M.2 NGFF M-Key SSD Nvme AHCI PCI Express Adapter Card?
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In that case they could use pcie x1 to m.2 adapter but since that will be bottlenecked it might be better to save a few dollars and get a 2.5" sata ssd.
I don't see a heat sink on that card. Last I checked I was getting at least 1200 on a 1TB Evo Plus in my 4,1>5,1 but I have an interface card which sandwhiches the SSD between two heatsinks.
If the SSD card is running hot it will throttle down to prevent self-harming.
Another idea, check Activity Monitor. Your OS of course use the drive if it is a boot drive and if say Spotlight is indexing files for that drive that would slow your benchmarks.
La placa puede aguantar cualquier gráfica PCIexpress. Porque es universal el puerto. El tema está en el bottleneck que te genera el CPU. Podrías , quizás con suerte, encontrar un i7 de 3era generación compatible con esa placa madre. Ahí vas a notar una mejora. Aún con la 1030. Pero el i7 de 3era no es para tirar cohetes tampoco.
Luego, la 1030 si podés conseguir una 1050ti o 1060 o mayor, dale con fé. Pero no caigas en esa de pedir préstamos. Lo más seguro es que lo vayas a necesitar....
Tercero y ya lo han mencionado es el disco de estado sólido. Mirá, yo compré este adaptador y me funciona genial. Pero igual con un disco de estado sólido sata, vas a notar harta diferencia.
That said, assuming your motherboard supports nvme drives, you could get a pcie x1 adapter (most are x4). It will be slower, but that won't make any real world difference for things like gaming.
https://www.amazon.com/Profile-PCI-M-Key-Express-Adapter/dp/B07R9VB35J/
x1 PCIe 2.0 is 5 Gbps with 8b/10b encoding which is around 500 MB/s (4 Gbps), but there's additional overhead lowering that about 10% more.
You can get x1 M.2 adapters, they would have to be for NVMe. They would likely be PCIe 3.0 but that's backwards compatible with 2.0. There's actually vertical ones you can plug into the PCIe slot and also ribbon/riser options for placement. I can give examples of these: first, second.
The first m.2 slot is disabled with 10th gen.
You use that SSD, you could get a pcie X1 to m.2 adapter
https://www.amazon.com/Profile-PCI-M-Key-Express-Adapter/dp/B07R9VB35J/
Ah, thank you for your replies. It made me do some more searching and I stand corrected. I didn't know an x4 card would work in an x1 slot, but while looking into that I actually found an x1 PCIe card on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Profile-PCI-M-Key-Express-Adapter/dp/B07R9VB35J/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=pcie+m.2+pcie+x1&qid=1612993741&sr=8-4
So OP should try that. Not the best speeds but better than SATA.
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