Check if the Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 supports booting from an M.2 PCI-E adapter.
Check if the Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 supports booting from an M.2 PCI-E adapter.
Checking the motherboard manual shows it supports NVMe M.2 slots. For this adapter, attaching a heatsink isn’t necessary unless you want extra cooling, or you could use active cooling if you prefer. It’s a good idea to consider cooling options for better performance. Thank you!
The real question, is why would you?? That motherboard has a 3rd gen x4 slot on it for NVMe drives, use that for your boot drive as putting the adapter in will just bottleneck the system giving it an extra hurdle. For the rest of your NVMe storage on that expansion card they'll load up in Disk Management after the driver is pulled from Windows Update. There's no guarintee that they'll come up in the BIOS, especially being a budget A-series board. As for cooling, unless the NVMe drive has a heatsink it isn't necessary given your case has proper airflow. If you're making a build that is fan-less and you expect radiant heat, then I'd consider a heatsink for the storage.