NVMe issues

-Ice · April 9, 2017

Finally finished installing Win10 Anniversary edition on my Samsung 960 Evo 250GB NVMe drive. Boot up is faster by a few seconds, but I'm having a bitch of a time arranging my desktop icons. I have Fences installed but even on icons that are not in Fences, everything is just laggy. Where before I could just click on an icon then drag it to where I want it, now I have to click the icon, make sure there's a box around it, move my cursor to where I want it, let go of the cursor, then watch my icon move to that location, then watch as the other icons re-arrange themselves. Dragging Fences around is also laggy as hell; I don't think I had this issue even when my OS was on a HDD.

My OS is on the NMVe drive, my deskto "folder" is on a HDD, but is the same location I used when my OS was on my old Crucial M4. So why would it be laggy on the NVMe but not on the M4 considering the "folder" is located in the same place?

-Ice · April 9, 2017

Copying a video file was mostly around 60MB/s but peaked around 150MB/s around the start. Copying within the NVMe was fast, around 300-600MB/s until the end where it went to around 9MB/s but still fast enough to be noticeable compared to HDD-to-NVMe copy. Within HDD was fast as well.

I fail to see how it can be a GPU issue. I'm on a 980Ti with latest drivers. But I'll reinstall drivers later to test anyway. As for caching confusion, well, like I said, I used to have the same config with a SATA SSD instead of NVMe drive with no issues.

Was also running some tests on the NVMe drive earlier using CrystalDisk Mark and the NVMe drive went up to 51 Celcius... probably went up higher than that as well, it only registered 51 as CrystalDisk Info refreshed at that point. I've changed it now so that it refreshes every minute. The drive runs hot... 38C on idle whereas my SSDs are 23C (850 Evo). My HDDs are at 25-26C. My external drives are 32C and 36C. So for a "stick of gum" that's over my motherboard that gets good airflow, idling at 38-39??