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Running 4 x SSD's, 2 NVME's for games and 2 SSD's for important data. Also 2 x spinners for movies and TV shows. Couldn't imagine just relying on drive.
Is it still worth having a separate game drive with how fast nvme is?
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Yeah, you could say it's '******* ridiculous'Ribbed, for her pleasure?
- See what I did there... I'll get my coat!The cool thing about this (sorry couldn't resist) it never throttles/gets hot, and being OEM fitted, garrantees this. It was only £36 more than the non HS version, and I got it for the price of the non HS model in a sale sold elsewhere
Win win!The only downside, is on that tiny writing you can't see when fitted, they forgot to add 'Pro' between the 'MP600 PRO XT' on the branding, as the pro signifies the posh HS, I know I should have sent it back
When it's fitted, you truely do have a WTF moment when you step back, I mean it was massive in my stupidly big shovel hands, but once fitted to the motherboard, it's something you have to witness in person.
Here's a random pic off google, but you get the idea, beast!
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I take it you've got sigs turned off for some reason despite having yours enabled? PCI-E 4.0 NVME, ridiculous lifespan, fast asf, B550M motherboard.
EDIT: updated spec of my NVME:
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no but over time I've learned that not everyone keeps then up to date.
With such a massive heatsink i just assumed it would be PCIe5.0
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Ah ok, we should administer suspensions for those who don't update it
I thought when you saw it was in my sig, that you'd twig, being the same aforementioned name/model
The heatsink ensures it runs at sucha decent temp with 0 throttling, there's literally a disclaimer warning sticker stuck to it when you remove it from the packaging, stating that if removed they cant guarantee that it'll operate at the spec listed above in that screenshot I've added for you
As I say I got it for the price of the non heatsink model, and I think it looks badass when fitted (not that I care but a bonus), from monitoring the temps it definitely sticks to the claimed temps under load
and the lifespan of the card is ridiculous, and well proven. Very hard to beat.You can't deny it's a sweet bit of kit, and for £136 for 2TB with next day delivery versus £172.99 at the time, can't go wrong, as I say the retail for the non pro version without the heatsink was that price excluding delivery...
Considering so many people even on B550M were still running PCI-E 3 NVME's, this is fast asf, and still fast, regardless of PCI-E 5. For copying files about it's instant, as you can imagine regarding the spec...
Definitely one of the coolest things Corsair have made hands down.
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I screenshotted the 1TB version before, so here's what I have and it's spec, the 2TB:
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I keep mine on a different drive mostly because games are the most massive things I install, and I want to make sure there's plenty of space on the main drive at all times. Not really a performance thing.
"Very limited"? These days, a midrange motherboard will likely have more M.2 than you will ever need unless you've got specialist needs.
"Very limited"? These days, a midrange motherboard will likely have more M.2 than you will ever need unless you've got specialist needs.
Mid range boards have usually two M.2 slots.
You need to go to high end chipset to get four M.2s to have number closer to SATA ports.
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Looking through OCUK's selection of Intel motherboards, the only midrange boards I can see with 2x M.2 are smaller footprint boards. 4x is normal, some have 3x or 5x. Even most of the budget end boards have more than 2. The AMD motherboards seem to have slightly lower numbers on average but even then most midrange boards have 4x.