Is PCIE 5.0 m.2 slot Motherboard worth it?

tanjackson · April 11

The MB needs to be able to run PCIE 5.0 m.2 to get the max m.2 speed which will boost loading time. CPU will support PCIE 5.0. Is it worth the extra dollars?

Darknighterror · April 11

Depending on your usecase. For 99% of the people its just a waste of money.

What "loading times" are we talking about? If gaming is the answer then 5.0 m2 ssds are a crazy money waste.

RONOTHAN## · April 11

1 hour ago, tanjackson said:

Is it worth the extra dollars?

If you have to ask, the answer is no. Even if you're not asking, the answer is still probably no. There are very few workloads that actually benefit from storage that fast, so unless you know you have one of those workloads, you're spending the money for no real reason.

Granted, a lot of budget motherboards come with Gen 5 M.2 slots nowadays (the B650M-HDV/M.2, for instance, can be had for as little as $110 US and has a Gen 5 M.2 slot), so you might not actually be spending any extra to get one, but it just isn't really something you need to consider as a useful feature.

tanjackson · April 11

1 hour ago, RONOTHAN## said:

If you have to ask, the answer is no. Even if you're not asking, the answer is still probably no. There are very few workloads that actually benefit from storage that fast, so unless you know you have one of those workloads, you're spending the money for no real reason.

Granted, a lot of budget motherboards come with Gen 5 M.2 slots nowadays (the B650M-HDV/M.2, for instance, can be had for as little as $110 US and has a Gen 5 M.2 slot), so you might not actually be spending any extra to get one, but it just isn't really something you need to consider as a useful feature.

What about heavy 4K video editing? heavy app like Flight simulation?

RONOTHAN## · April 11

3 minutes ago, tanjackson said:

What about heavy 4K video editing? heavy app like Flight simulation?

Some 4K editing might (not likely, from what I know a good SATA SSD can perform just fine for this task, but maybe), but MSFS doesn't.

GuiltySpark_ · April 11

14 minutes ago, tanjackson said:

What about heavy 4K video editing? heavy app like Flight simulation?

Gaming it’s irrelevant so you can forget about that. Game loading times are nearly identical on basic Gen3 drives vs the fastest Gen5 drives.

As for video editing, you’d have to be working with VERY large 6-8k projects for a Gen4 drive be a bottleneck.

Your average 4K projects don’t take much at all.

Gen5 drives simply have no purpose for 95% of personal desktop systems.

Marketing seems to work though, you think it’s necessary and beneficial.

tanjackson · April 12

On 4/10/2024 at 9:12 PM, GuiltySpark_ said:

Gaming it’s irrelevant so you can forget about that. Game loading times are nearly identical on basic Gen3 drives vs the fastest Gen5 drives.

As for video editing, you’d have to be working with VERY large 6-8k projects for a Gen4 drive be a bottleneck.

Your average 4K projects don’t take much at all.

Gen5 drives simply have no purpose for 95% of personal desktop systems.

Marketing seems to work though, you think it’s necessary and beneficial.

Is PCI 5.0 x16 slot for GPU not worth it too?

GuiltySpark_ · April 12

3 minutes ago, tanjackson said:

Is PCI 5.0 x16 slot for GPU not worth it too?

Current GPU's are PCIe Gen4 and even when we move to Gen5 GPU's they will almost certainly not actually need the bandwidth. Heck you can run a 4090 now on a Gen3 slot and loose next to no performance.