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saur0
By saur0
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Hi, i've been upgrading an old PC, and having upgraded the CPU and GPU the old SSD is letting it down so I was thinking of upgrading to a Corsair - Neutron NX500 400GB PCI-E Solid State Drive for the boot drive, its a bit pricy. I was thinking of adding a Samsung 860 Pro 512GB SSD for storage/steam library so don't really need 400gb for the boot drive, any suggestions? 

 

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/11133020

 

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CPU: Intel - Core i7-980X Extreme Edition 3.33GHz 6-Core Processor  
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  
Motherboard: Asus - P6X58-E WS ATX LGA1366 Motherboard 
Memory: Kingston - Beast 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2400 Memory 
Memory: Kingston - Beast 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2400 Memory 
Storage: Kingston - SSDNow V300 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive 
Storage: Crucial - M500 960GB 2.5" Solid State Drive 
Video Card: MSI - Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card 
Case: Corsair - 600T Mesh (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case 
Power Supply: Corsair - Enthusiast 650W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition 39.9 CFM  120mm Fan 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 37.9 CFM  120mm Fans 
Case Fan: Thermaltake - CL-F015-PL20BL-A 129.6 CFM  200mm Fan

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PCIe drives are no better than SATA as a boot device. Add another SSD for games maybe, but not as an OS drive. That's wasting money and space.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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really I thought they were faster? I would have gone for M.2 but the mobo is too old for that. I has two SATA3 connectors, so 1 x 1TB Samsung 860 Pro it is then. 

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Looks like that answers that question then :)

 

 

although they tested with a i7 7700k CPU, which wasn't quick enough to max out the storage transfer rate, but how much more CPU before the SATA SSD was causing a bottleneck?

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