Intel 750 SSDs on Z97 Extreme4

Well I guess I should stop this thread.
I was looking at this board because I was under the impression that you needed a mobo with updates to support the intel 750 to use it as a secondary drive (not a boot disk).

Spent some time with a local computer shop that sells the Intel 750 and they think it will plug in to just about any 3.0 PCI slot with an X97 or X99 chip set as long as you don't need it for a boot disk. I found the following on Intel's web site:

http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/ssd-750/sb/CS-0...

To use as a secondary data drive:

System with x4 PCIe connector
A system based on an Intel® Z97 Chipset or an Intel® X99 Chipset is suggested
uEFI BIOS
Airflow across the drive to provide cooling, such as a front fan and rear fan
An available PCIe 3.0 connector (for HHHL SSD) or a PCIe-capable Mini-SATA HD connector (SFF-8643) for
the 2.5 inch SSD
Microsoft Windows* 7, 8, or 8.1 operating system
NVMe driver installed after OS boot

Interestingly, he suggested that if I don't care particularly about gaming, I could move my graphics card from one of the two 3.0 x16 slots to a 2.0 x16 slot and that would give me two 3.0 x16 (running 3.0 x8) slots on my ASUS 87 Plus motherboard to plug Intel 750s and they would both run full bore.

According to him (and more or less supported by the Intel page referenced above), you don't need any motherboard firmware to run the Intel 750 AIC unless you want to use it as a boot disk (requirements for this are also on the liked page).

  May be a while before I get around to trying it.