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I am going to upgrade my 990fx and fx 8350 to a z270 board and a i7 7700k. I have a Samsung 250gb 850 evo sata. What I'm wondering is if i should get the new 960 evo M.2 or not. It looks way faster but I primarily just play games and I'm wondering if the 130 bucks is worth it?

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I wouldn't bother. The reason an SSD feels fast is because of the low latency. So in all honesty, you probably wouldn't even notice that the 960 is any faster. 

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I have a 950Pro in my desktop and an 850Pro in my laptop there is no VISIBLE difference in performance, the ONLY real reason to do a m.2 drive is for the form factor of dissapearing into the motherboard and not needing a SATA power and Data connection in the system. I also upgraded the same laptop to the 850Pro from an 840Pro and didn't notice any difference.

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5 minutes ago, kennymax89 said:

I am going to upgrade my 990fx and fx 8350 to a z270 board and a i7 7700k. I have a Samsung 250gb 850 evo sata. What I'm wondering is if i should get the new 960 evo M.2 or not. It looks way faster but I primarily just play games and I'm wondering if the 130 bucks is worth it?

personally think its not worth it...

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For purely gaming, it's not worth the price. 

 

Even as a boot drive, PCIe M.2 SSDs are inferior to regular SATA SSDs, as the SATA controller is initialized immediately upon boot, whereas PCIe devices still have to load their own BIOS. A few extra seconds, but still a difference worth noting. 

 

PCIe SSDs are worth their weight in gold if you record and/or stream games though. 

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I think I will just save my money then, thanks all for the input.

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