Noticeable decline in gaming performance nvme

Dallies

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Hi thanks for looking.

What could cause a decline in gaming performance when using a nvme drive?

When I first put this machine together I couldn't get the nvme drive to work so used a sata ssd but now Windows is on the nvme drive I'm getting bad performance loss in gaming. Jittery and stuttering. Cpu intensive games I'm losing 20fps. Swap back to sata and it's like a different pc! Now I'm wondering if all the problems I was having on my old pc was down to using nvme drives?

Thanks.
 
People will probably need the cpu and mobo combo as it could be a pci-e lane usage issue

Edit: The nvme model would be useful as they don't all have great read / write speeds.

Also - do a health / speed check on the drive and post results.
 
montymint said:
People will probably need the cpu and mobo combo as it could be a pci-e lane usage issue

Edit: The nvme model would be useful as they don't all have great read / write speeds.

Also - do a health / speed check on the drive and post results.
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Thanks for the reply.

It's a i5 12600kf with a gigabyte z690 gaming and the drive is a Kingston A2000 1TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD I will do a test as soon as I'm back at my pc.

Thanks.
 
ED209 said:
What OS are you using? Windows 10 or Windows 11?

Is it effecting all games?
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Thanks for the reply.

I've solved the problem. It was because my HD was in southbridge I couldn't get it to work in northbridge until I realised I had to install a driver for Windows 11 to recognise a pcie ssd. In this day and age its like installing Windows 98 again lol
 
Dallies said:
Thanks for the reply.

I've solved the problem. It was because my HD was in southbridge I couldn't get it to work in northbridge until I realised I had to install a driver for Windows 11 to recognise a pcie ssd. In this day and age its like installing Windows 98 again lol
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lol, glad to hear its resolved tho.
 
alec said:
still quite surprising it makes such a difference. By all stats chipset lanes should be more than enough to use pcie 3.0 nvme drive. Must have also been the case of some fallback performance mode without drivers
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I don't think it was a driver issue as when it's in Southbridge it's using the motherboard chipset and in northbridge its using some Intel controller that requires a driver. On my amd system I know using the lower m.2 port affected the graphics port and limited it to pcie x8 maybe the same thing happened here.
 
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