Old vs new drive

[AryA_65]

So I recently bought a 2TB 970 evo plus and put it in the second m.2 slot on my mobo (asus b550-f wifi). But since then, I’ve been noticing lots of micro stutters happening (although upon adding the new drive, I did a fresh install of windows). I used to play valorant on my boot drive (1/4tb 980 pro) and didn’t notice anything. But now it’s really noticeable. I tried changing the settings in the nvidia control panel, but the more I messed around with the settings, the worst it got. Is there a noticeable difference between having a gen 3 m.2 in the chipset slot vs having that same drive in the gen 4 slot connected directly to the cpu? And would that induce micro stuttering in games?

 

also my gpu is a 3060 ti from asus and I have a r7 3700x

[Hidie]

you said you fresh installed windows, did you update all the drivers for motherboard, cpu and gpu?  Its possible that the slot its in is making the difference.  I would swap the two drives and the slots there in to see if it changes it at all.  Also I would get something to monitor frames, cpu and gpu usage thats an overlay (I think nvidea has an option for that) to see what its from, either cpu or gpu.  Could try reinstalling the game too.

[AryA_65]

47 minutes ago, Hidie said:

you said you fresh installed windows, did you update all the drivers for motherboard, cpu and gpu?  Its possible that the slot its in is making the difference.  I would swap the two drives and the slots there in to see if it changes it at all.  Also I would get something to monitor frames, cpu and gpu usage thats an overlay (I think nvidea has an option for that) to see what its from, either cpu or gpu.  Could try reinstalling the game too.

I’ll try reinstalling the game first. Then I’ll resort to switching the drives