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Poor PC performance regarding my boot NVME

Caiaphas Darling
By Caiaphas Darling
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       About a year ago I installed a Samsung 970 Pro NVME SSD into my computer as my boot drive. It's been great until recently. For about the last two weeks I've been getting worse and worse performance. There's stuttering in all my games and even on the desktop. The start menu could take up to five seconds to even open. I reinstalled Windows 10 via the whole reset thing. But it was still the same. So then I reinstalled Windows 10 on the SSD that was the previous boot drive. I got Windows to the exact same update that the NVME had, version 1903. And there's no stuttering. It's perfect. So, there's something wrong with my Samsung 970. I was thinking that I would reformat the entire drive before reinstalling Windows on it. Any thoughts or advice? Is there anything special in regards to formatting an NVME SSD that I should know before doing it?

 

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While the Samsung was installed, did you try running Samsung's software on it to check its status?

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....I didn't realize that there was any such software. Let me boot up Windows on the NVME and I'll download it and try it out.

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Ok, so I download Samsung's Magician software. It says that the drive is in good health. I also downloaded the newest drivers for the NVME. I'm still getting stuttering in-game. So, it wasn't the NVME drivers. The drivers for the CPU, GPU, and the BIOS are also up to date.

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