SSD for OS in my new build.

[DeathSabre]

Budget (including currency): NA (parts already ordered)

Country: South Africa

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, web-browsing, maybe streaming.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

So I'm buying a 5600X, 16BG ram, and an Asus B550 MB, as well as a 1TB 970Evo NVME SSD.

that is upgrading my current system that has a 1060 6GB, a 250gig SATA SSD, and a few TB for spinning rust i've lost track of how much. and PSU, case etc.

 

My dilemma is:

Option A: Do I leave my OS on my SATA SSD (windows boot times and the like are fine on it, I'm mostly interested in Gaming performance such as load times) and leave my 1TB NVME for just my games library.

OptionB: Do I reinstall windows on my new NVME SSD, and split my games library over the 2 SSD, leaving the least important ones to overflow onto my Sata drive.

 

TLDR: Will I see much performance difference between having OS on SATA SSD and game on NVME vs everything on the NVME?

[Tom_nerd]

@DeathSabreI would agree with @lexusgamer05 I would probably reinstall windows

[SupaKomputa]

Always use the fastest drive for OS. Using the new SSD for gaming only is a waste.

If you're coming from a AMD or Ryzen system, you  definitely don't need a fresh install.

Just plug the old 256 drive to the new system and see if it works, benchmark, play some games etc.

If the system works, then you can just clone the drive to the new ssd, expand the partition or just create a new one on the empty space.

Macrium is free and pretty straightforward in cloning.

I prefer cloning as you don't need to reinstall everything and reupdate windows.