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Cysquatch
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This is my first time posting here, So hello everyone!  I spent a lot of time at another forum that isn't so active anymore.  I thought I'd try something else new!

 

To my question,  I'm currently using an ASRock AB350 Pro4 motherboard.  My main drive is a 500gb Samsung 970 EVO and is in my pcie gen3 x 4 m.2 slot.  Im a huge fan of the m.2 form factor and I would like to get a 2tb extra storage drive, but my second m.2 slot is only sata 3 speeds.  Would it be possible to utilize my spare Pcie 3.0 slot with an adaptor for full speed on a nvme drive?  Thanks in advance

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13 minutes ago, Cysquatch said:

Would it be possible to utilize my spare Pcie 3.0 slot with an adaptor for full speed on a nvme drive?  Thanks in advance

Yes, however, I wouldn't immediately dismiss SATA M.2 drives because the performance benefit between NVMe and SATA is practically not there.

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Possible, but I personally see no difference in user experience between my HP EX920 (PCIe 3.0 x4) and Samsung 840 Pro (SATA) apart from specific loads like scratch disk of video editing. I thought it would speed up game loading times, but none of them go past 200MB/s which is less than half of the max of even SATA3 SSDs.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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27 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Yes, however, I wouldn't immediately dismiss SATA M.2 drives because the performance benefit between NVMe and SATA is practically not there.

 

21 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Possible, but I personally see no difference in user experience between my HP EX920 (PCIe 3.0 x4) and Samsung 840 Pro (SATA) apart from specific loads like scratch disk of video editing. I thought it would speed up game loading times, but none of them go past 200MB/s which is less than half of the max of even SATA3 SSDs.

 

So basically, I might as well just utilize my second m.2 slot, or just get a sata3 ssd?  Thanks again

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6 minutes ago, Cysquatch said:

So basically, I might as well just utilize my second m.2 slot, or just get a sata3 ssd?  Thanks again

Yes, put an M.2 SATA SSD in it. 

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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