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I absolutely did!! And its a evo 860 m.2!! I'm using a Z370-E mobo and it has 1x m.2 socket 3 with m key that supports both SATA and pcie and the 2nd slot supports pcie! So I have the evo as window boot drive and the optane is optimizing it! Atm my current set up its i personally delidded my 8700k and I'm only using a xmp profile, not custom ocing just yet lol. it's currently sits at 28c while idle and its jumps to mid 40s and barely gets to 50 on a "full load" havent fully benchmark it yet untill I get a aio, I holding out for the new ryujin from asus to come out. So far it's getting the job done!

Any reason why I cant get the same results again after a couple of days?

*embarrassing* >.< sorry I accidentally posted way to early.

Lol kind of. Died alittle inside when I realized I clicked send and only posted a title and 2 letters.... x.x my bad

Lol sorry to leave everyone hanging! Posted way to early!!

Hey everyone! This is my first post here at LTP! All the tips and knowledge from you all have been absolutely vital for me when I wanted to start my pc build along with trouble shooting. So a couple days ago I decided to grab a Intel optane 32g drive. But after the installation and 2nd or 3nd runs of the benchmark I suddenly start freaking fantastic performance from my GPU.... it went from a cool 104.1% all the way to 135%!! I though Intel optane was mainly for speed up a HDD or SSD, but why is my GPU benefiting from adding optane? Btw adding the optane I do get incomplete results But someone people on reddit said that it was due to it's "fast write speed" could be the cause. But after updating my graphics card I get now the same 105%ish performance. Could anyone tell me what happened here? My system before optane: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor Purchased For $329.99 CPU Cooler Cooler Master - Hyper 212X Dual Fan 82.9 CFM CPU Cooler Purchased For $41.44 Motherboard Asus - ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Purchased For $167.99 Memory G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory Purchased For $169.99 Storage Samsung - 860 Evo 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive Purchased For $167.99 Video Card EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card Purchased For $314.48 Case Fractal Design - Focus G (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case Purchased For $55.71 Power Supply EVGA - BQ 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply Purchased For $45.51 Operating System Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit Purchased For $32.00 Case Fan Thermaltake - Riing 12 LED Red 40.6 CFM 120mm Fan Purchased For $10.89 Case Fan Thermaltake - Riing 12 LED Red 40.6 CFM 120mm Fan Purchased For $10.89 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $1346.88 Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-05 08:27 EST-0500 First PCBenchmark results: UserBenchmarks: Game 106%, Desk 107%, Work 100% CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K - 118.3% GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 104.1% SSD: Samsung 860 EVO M.2 1TB - 130.9% RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB - 100.7% MBD: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING BenchMarks that are in question. Multiple same results: after installing optane 1st: UserBenchmarks: CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K - 108.4% GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 134.5% SSD: Intel Optane+932G 1TB - 217.1% RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB - 105.2% MBD: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING 2nd: UserBenchmarks: CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K - 109.2% GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 135.7% SSD: Intel Optane+932G 1TB - 226% RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB - 101.9% MBD: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING 3rd: UserBenchmarks: CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K - 109.8% GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 133% SSD: Intel Optane+932G 1TB - 224.6% RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB - 100.7% MBD: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING Returned back to normal??: UserBenchmarks: CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K - 104.1% GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 102.4% SSD: Intel Optane+932G 1TB - 217% RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB - 100.1% MBD: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING If this interest anyone to explain why this occurs that would be great!