Getting slower speed on Nvme ssd

[GallenThe1st]

Hey guys,

i just upgraded my pc to the Samsung 980 nvme ssd but for some reason when I tried to bench with CrystalDiskMark I got lower results than I could find on the Internet.

I have TRIM enabled, could it be a specific setting or my drive is screwed?

i’ve added my results for reference. 
Running on Win10 x64 and my Motherboard is AORUS B450 elite.

 

thanks !

[Crunchy Dragon]

I've never gotten the same results in CrystalDiskMark(or anything, really) as what SSD companies market their speeds at.

 

You're still getting very good results, so I honestly wouldn't worry about it. As long as the drive is getting the x4 PCIe lanes it needs, you're good.

[Guest]

The performance you get out of an SSD like that depends on the rest of your system too. 

[GallenThe1st]

9 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've never gotten the same results in CrystalDiskMark(or anything, really) as what SSD companies market their speeds at.

 

You're still getting very good results, so I honestly wouldn't worry about it. As long as the drive is getting the x4 PCIe lanes it needs, you're good.

Yup! that will be it - 

apparently my mistake is that i connected it to the wrong slot (x2 instead of x4), It’s not so clear in the mobo manual.. but after looking on GIGABYTE site I understand my graphics card hides that x4 slot.

 

I’ll fix this tomorrow and report, thanks!!

[TheRedneckAtheist]

19 hours ago, GallenThe1st said:

Yup! that will be it - 

apparently my mistake is that i connected it to the wrong slot (x2 instead of x4), It’s not so clear in the mobo manual.. but after looking on GIGABYTE site I understand my graphics card hides that x4 slot.

 

I’ll fix this tomorrow and report, thanks!!

After you run the benchmark to test it out, run these two commands and recheck the benchmark(purely out of curiosity):

 

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

sfc /scannow

[GallenThe1st]

So i've jumped the opportunity and installed clean copy of win 11..

This is before running the two commands suggested here:

and after:

thanks !