The Kingston NV3 SSD is not directly compatible with the Asus Z97-K motherboard as it is an M.2 NVMe SSD with PCIe 4.0 interface. However, the Asus Z97-K motherboard does not natively support M.2 NVMe SSDs as it is based on the Z97 chipset, which does not natively support M.2 NVMe. However, it might be possible to use an M.2 NVMe SSD if the motherboard has an M.2 slot and BIOS support is available, but the speed would be limited to PCIe 2.0 x2.