Kingston HyperX v Kingston SSD Now or other

Kurgen · 27 May 2015 at 13:36

If my system is SATA2, is looking at high end SSDs a waste of time? i wont be upgrading my mobo for at least 6 months. I was thinking of nipping over to soho for this hyperx event, but it might be a waste of my time.. OR... would this work in a socket 1333 x58 mobo, i presume you cant boot from it on a pc of my age

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1 x Kingston HyperX Predator 240GB PCIe x 4 SSD HHHL Form Factor Solid State Drive (SHPM2280P2H/240G) £219.98
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CapitalOne · 27 May 2015 at 13:41

Hello - if you want to see the results of 6G drives on 3G ports see the thread I just posted http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18673260 .

Look at it this way. You need an SSD to get the most of 3G so you will get the maximun improvement possible on your chipset, plus you can keep the drive for you next build. If you spot a bargain I would say go for it.

Edit - just saw it was PCIE sorry - no idea then! It will depend on BIOS support, number of PCIE lanes and what else you have on PCIE. You will need to let us know what mobo and BIOS

Kurgen · 27 May 2015 at 13:49

the question was both really sata and pcie.. but i presume using the pcie would get much higher speed, and i could use the m.2 directly on a new mobo..

my current board is Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P and im using 1 GTX 970.. its got buckets of slots in it

2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1/PCIEX16_2) (Note 2)
2 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x8 (PCIEX8_1/PCIEX8_2) (Note 3) (The PCIEX16_1, PCIEX16_2, PCIEX8_1 and PCIEX8_2 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
2 x PCI Express x1 slots
1 x PCI slot

ED209 · 27 May 2015 at 14:56

I have a X58 board with a Samsung evo 850.

I currently use sata 2 as the marvel controllers are crap from what I have found out online and they cant reach the full sata 3 speeds.

the reason why I went for a SSD that can do full speed is because when I do get a new mobo that supports true sata 3 I can then get the full speed without having to change my SSD

FredFlint · 27 May 2015 at 15:11

The Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 drive with a pcie adapter card would be faster and cost less.

Kurgen · 27 May 2015 at 15:58

the adatpr cards seem abit scarce on the interweb and i would be worried they wouldnt be compatible with the drive

FredFlint · 28 May 2015 at 14:45

Kurgen said:
the adatpr cards seem abit scarce on the interweb and i would be worried they wouldnt be compatible with the drive

Have a look on amazon for DeLOCK PCIe 1 x M.2 NGFF - 89370.
Gibbo said ocuk was getting some in this thread:http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18670541&page=2 but they dont have any yet.

Rroff · 28 May 2015 at 14:48

If your system is SATA2 and sticking with the regular SSD theme some considerations:

Samsung 8xx EVO, etc. drives have access to "rapid" mode (using some system RAM as a cache) which has some benefits where you have a slow speed link to the drive (nothing massive though).

Sticking a couple of smaller SSDs in RAID can overcome the single link bandwidth limitation but be aware of the caveats and requirements with RAID - especially advisable to backup anything important to an additional non RAID member drive.