960 Pro in an Asus Crosshair VI

Flight · 24 Oct 2017 at 16:17

Putting a new build together with a 960 Pro M.2 for the OS. Anyone else paired these ? Wondering is it is pretty much plug and play or whether I will need to configure anything in the BIOS.

jrwagh333 · 24 Oct 2017 at 16:47

I have the 960 evo in my Mobo but be aware that you will need a TPU if you want to enable the hardware encryption as the mobo doesn't come with one which I found very disappointing

mattyg · 24 Oct 2017 at 16:49

Flight said:
Putting a new build together with a 960 Pro M.2 for the OS. Anyone else paired these ? Wondering is it is pretty much plug and play or whether I will need to configure anything in the BIOS.

I built one a couple of weeks ago. Plug and play. OS is on the 960.

It felt snappy as hell from the off. Kinda used to it now. But for some reason my old PC now takes an age to boot up....lol

jrwagh333 · 25 Oct 2017 at 09:53

mattyg said:
I built one a couple of weeks ago. Plug and play. OS is on the 960.

It felt snappy as hell from the off. Kinda used to it now. But for some reason my old PC now takes an age to boot up....lol

You mind showing your speeds from your drive? I feel mine is a bit slow.

mattyg · 25 Oct 2017 at 10:56

Show me how and Yes

mattyg · 25 Oct 2017 at 11:35

M.2 test

Got upto 58Deg temp too.

Not sure if thats any good.

mattyg · 25 Oct 2017 at 11:36

jrwagh333 said:
You mind showing your speeds from your drive? I feel mine is a bit slow.

Avathar77 · 25 Oct 2017 at 13:08

here is mine, seems some seq read write figures are low for me!

Yaayuh! · 25 Oct 2017 at 16:14

Flight said:
Putting a new build together with a 960 Pro M.2 for the OS. Anyone else paired these ? Wondering is it is pretty much plug and play or whether I will need to configure anything in the BIOS.

I have had a Samsung 960 Pro plugged into the Crosshair VI since Ryzen release early March, no issues.
All I have done is manually set it to PCI-E Gen 3.0 x4 in the BIOS (no longer required) and install the Samsung Driver.

Latest driver here: http://www.samsung.com/semiconducto...te_webgains_73669_20171025&source=webgains_uk

mattyg · 25 Oct 2017 at 17:24

Rossi~ said:
I have had a Samsung 960 Pro plugged into the Crosshair VI since Ryzen release early March, no issues.
All I have done is manually set it to PCI-E Gen 3.0 x4 in the BIOS (no longer required) and install the Samsung Driver.

Latest driver here: http://www.samsung.com/semiconducto...te_webgains_73669_20171025&source=webgains_uk

Lol Drivers...Forgot about them..Downloading now..

jrwagh333 · 27 Oct 2017 at 11:45

The Microsoft driver auto installed with mine. I wonder if installing the Samsung one will make an improvement?

jrwagh333 · 28 Oct 2017 at 13:14

Here is mine after installing the Samsung driver. Drive is 69% full - Seems to be the slowest here

Yaayuh! · 29 Oct 2017 at 17:36

I just remembered I was going to run the benchmark, forgot the other day so here you go:

jrwagh333 · 2 Nov 2017 at 18:45

Hmm I wonder who mine is slower than your guys

Yaayuh! · 3 Nov 2017 at 09:57

jrwagh333 said:
Hmm I wonder who mine is slower than your guys

Have you got Asus AI Suite installed by chance? Some people report that it interferes. Try disabling all Asus services and re-run to confirm maybe?

jrwagh333 · 3 Nov 2017 at 10:42

Rossi~ said:
Have you got Asus AI Suite installed by chance? Some people report that it interferes. Try disabling all Asus services and re-run to confirm maybe?

No I don't.
But now I am thinking maybe it is down the CPU speed? As I have read that it can have an affect on NVME drives.
I'm clocked at 3.75Ghz on my 1600 - What about you guys?

mattyg · 3 Nov 2017 at 10:50

Stock 1700x

jrwagh333 · 6 Nov 2017 at 09:27

Strange, I can't get it to improve :/

jrwagh333 · 9 Nov 2017 at 17:15

I wonder if OCing the base clock would yield and improvement?

Yaayuh! · 10 Nov 2017 at 09:00

jrwagh333 said:
I wonder if OCing the base clock would yield and improvement?

It should do, a little.
To be honest, the difference in speed we're seeing here won't be noticeable in actual use, they're just numbers.