Windows 10: Connect NVMe SSD to old desktop

Hi

I have an old 2013ish desktop rig, which still serves me well for office and multimedia purposes
and I have a new NVMe SSD drive primarily seen in use with new notebooks but for now I would like to use it in my desktop.

I do not have the required slot as far as I am aware. I do have PCI-E slots though, including a PCIE-E x16 running at x4.

Please tell me what adapter I need to connect!

Board is: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-HD3P
GA-F2A88XM-HD3P (rev. 1.0) | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

I do not have a PCIE-E graphics card, all slots are available and free.

Specification:
GIGABYTE
GA-F2A88XM-HD3P (rev. 1.0)
Expansion Slots
1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
* For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
(The PCIEX16 slot conforms to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)
* To support PCI Express 3.0, you must install an FM2+ APU
1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)
1 x PCI Express x1 slot
(The PCIEX4 and PCI Express x1 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
1 x PCI slot

I am worried about this sentence as I only have an FM2 Cpu (AMD a6-5400k) not an fm2+.
To support PCI Express 3.0, you must install an FM2+ APU

SSD is Samsung EVO 970 500 GB NVME M.2
Samsung 970 EVO 500GB NVMe M.2 SSD | Extreme Digital

SSD 970 EVO NVMe M.2 500GB | MZ-V7E500BW | Samsung HU

I have plenty of space inside my PC case and dont need boot support.
I need something cheap but good.
AXAGON PCEM2-D PCIe NVMe+NGFF M.2 adapter | PCX.hu

Was looking at this adapter. It is a dual slot one so might come handy later. Would it be fine?

:)

 

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• 
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• 
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