M2 NVMe Drive Speed Issues

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Hey All,

I recently upgraded to a new Samsung 970 Evo NVMe drive and to make sure everything went well I bench marked the drive using Crystal Disk Mark and some of my readings are coming in way lower that some on the benchmarks I have seen for this drives and was wondering if this maybe due to incorrect BIOS settings as my motherboard (ASUS Z170-A) has a lot of settings that I am not to familiar with.

Another possibility would be that I am low on PCI-E lanes again not a strong point of mine.

Below is my spec and also a screenshot of my Crystal Mark readings and would greatly appreciate any help even if its just that my results are correct or what I might be missing here.

CPU: i7-6700K
Motherboard: ASUS Z170-A
GPU: 2 x 980 Ti's
SSD: 3 x 860 Evo's (Not currently plugged in, will plug in once this issue is resolved)
NVMe: 1 x 970 Evo
PSU: COrsair HX1000i
Memory: 32GB DDR4 2300


Top Readings seem OK but rest seem far lower that benchmarks seen online.
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Thanks for any help in advance.
 
You need to check you are comparing like for like, the numbers look normal to me. However there are two distinct versions of CDM and you can't compare the speds between different drive sizes really. :)
 
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