Not reaching advertised speeds on brand new XPG SX8200 Pro NVMe

[idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b]

Hi everyone. 

Motherboard is H110M-A/M.2

Which specs show supports x4 PCI E M2 Support (see pic). 

LINK TO MOTHERBOARD

 

 

I therefore bought this SSD Drive: 

LINK TO DRIVE

 

This NVMe is suppose to get to 3000+ speeds. 

 

Here is what I am getting (see bellow - AS SSD BENCHMARK). 

 

No firmware update available online as far as I can see from ADATA website. 

 

Anyone might be able to tell me why this is? 

 

CPU is Pentium G4560 (I don't think it's relevant but just to make sure). 

 

Thanks so much! 

 

 

[SSD Sean]

Look at the graphic of the motherboard spec you just shared. It is limited to 20Gbps (PCIe 2.0 x4). You need a PCIe 3.0 x4 slot to allow full performance. For the limitation, your speeds look correct. 

[idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b]

1 minute ago, SSD Sean said:

Look at the graphic of the motherboard spec you just shared. It is limited to 20Gbps (PCIe 2.0 x4). You need a PCIe 3.0 x4 slot to allow full performance. For the limitation, your speeds look correct. 

Thank you so much!

 

But it says it supports up to 20gbps!!!

 

I did not even know PCIe 3 exists!!!! 

 

WOW - so frustrating! 

[Ben17]

1 minute ago, idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b said:

Thank you so much!

 

But it says it supports up to 20gbps!!!

 

I did not even know PCIe 3 exists!!!! 

 

WOW - so frustrating! 

easy to do no worrys  

Its stll a good SSD though

[idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b]

Just now, Ben17 said:

easy to do no worrys  

Its stll a good SSD though

 

It is indeed. I just wanted to hit peak performance

 

 

[SpookyCitrus]

6 minutes ago, idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b said:

 

It is indeed. I just wanted to hit peak performance

 

 

Depending on your uses you wouldn't even notice the performance of it compared to it's full speed if you're just gaming or using it for basic web browsing. Only time you'll ever need to worry about the max speed is if you are doing large file transfers which most people don't normally do unless they are storing/working with a ton of video footage or pictures.

[idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b]

1 minute ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Depending on your uses you wouldn't even notice the performance of it compared to it's full speed if you're just gaming or using it for basic web browsing. Only time you'll ever need to worry about the max speed is if you are doing large file transfers which most people don't normally do unless they are storing/working with a ton of video footage or pictures.

 

No doubt that you are correct. Let me ask you this though: for the usages you have mentioned, would you say there would be a differance between a reguarl SSD drive (non-nvme) and the one I am using? 

 

Just curious about this. 

 

Thanks. 

[SpookyCitrus]

15 minutes ago, idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b said:

 

No doubt that you are correct. Let me ask you this though: for the usages you have mentioned, would you say there would be a differance between a reguarl SSD drive (non-nvme) and the one I am using? 

 

Just curious about this. 

 

Thanks. 

For gaming or uses like file transfer?

[idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b]

1 minute ago, SpookyCitrus said:

For gaming or uses like file transfer?

 

For 12 hours of office work. Emailing, File editing (PDFs, Docs), 3 browsers open, and so on. 

[SpookyCitrus]

3 minutes ago, idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b said:

 

For 12 hours of office work. Emailing, File editing (PDFs, Docs), 3 browsers open, and so on. 

No the drive speed won't affect that, SSDs improve Windows startup/shutdown speeds, application startup speeds, file transfer speeds and the time it takes to load files. Multi-tasking is going to be affected by your ram speed and application processes are going to affected by how fast your CPU can process the requests.