I read that my MOBO could support m.2 NVME drives and therefore wanted to see what Samsung had to offer, due to the success of my laptop upgrade. Once I found that Samsung made their own NVME ...
Installed this SSD in an ASUS Z390-PRO Gaming mainboard, running an Intel i5-9600K CPU, on the NVMe compatible M.2_2 slot (PCIe 3.0 x4 mode), the one underneath the chipset heatsink(s).