Re: Is there any real world justification for PCIe SSD ?
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Originally Posted by
Scow Captain
That's a SATA drive, no different in performance to using a normal 2.5" SSD. If you want m.2 pcie performance then you want Samsung's sm951 model. There's gossip about Samsung announcing a 950 pro soon that'll take advantage of m.2, PCIe and NVMe.
no, mine a 951 pci-e model and its faster than a ssd version which is going in slot 2 of my mobo today as ordered a large capacity one.
Re: Is there any real world justification for PCIe SSD ?
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Originally Posted by
silent
no, mine a 951 pci-e model and its faster than a ssd version which is going in slot 2 of my mobo today as ordered a large capacity one.
I was referring to the drive in your link to eBuyer not your current SSD, sorry for any confusion.
Re: Is there any real world justification for PCIe SSD ?
Re: Is there any real world justification for PCIe SSD ?
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Originally Posted by
silent
i have a Z97 asrock board with a 256 sammy m.2 pcie x4 ssd and it flies, especially on windows 10.
I want this! I've got fast SSDs and stuff still doesn't load fast enough. Particularly games such as Elite Dangerous. That could be due to my old CPU, mobo and GPU though but I think partly the speed of my drives.
Re: Is there any real world justification for PCIe SSD ?
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Originally Posted by
Ciber
I want this! I've got fast SSDs and stuff still doesn't load fast enough. Particularly games such as Elite Dangerous. That could be due to my old CPU, mobo and GPU though but I think partly the speed of my drives.
I don't think much of ED loading is drive related, seems mostly shader compiling, even with Crimson drivers supposedly caching them on my SSD.
Re: Is there any real world justification for PCIe SSD ?
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Originally Posted by
kalniel
I don't think much of ED loading is drive related, seems mostly shader compiling, even with Crimson drivers supposedly caching them on my SSD.
OK. So I need a faster GPU for that then? I still want a faster SSD though and m2 PCIe sounds like a step change in speed!
Re: Is there any real world justification for PCIe SSD ?
Shader compiling is usually CPU-bound, performed by the graphics drivers, but you'd have to find some benchmarks to see if a CPU swap would make much of a difference.
Re: Is there any real world justification for PCIe SSD ?
OK Elite wasn't on the AMD approved list for shader caching, so it wasn't doing it. You can force it on under Crimson per-game profiles.. that does save a chunk of loading time now!