NVME upgrade

Burtoner

Burtoner

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Currently I have a samsung 860 EVo 500GB as my windows system, which these days get's quite full
I run odd games on it, but most games ie Steam which are 1TB, run off a normal HDD
I was thinking of upgrading to and NVME then using the SSD for games, of which i could upgrade to bigger size or add another later on.
There are so many on the market, and i noticed the difference in prices is just down to the speeds

I was looking at 2TB versions of Samsung 970/980/990 pro
Am I going to notice the difference in the speeds?
My motherboard is a Asus Z170 Pro Gaming so is probably is an older gen 3?
But as I would probably upgrade sometime soon, it will make a difference eventually.

Any suggestions
 

Tetras

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Burtoner said:
I was looking at 2TB versions of Samsung 970/980/990 pro
Am I going to notice the difference in the speeds?
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Nope, Samsung have also updated their older drives with newer controllers and newer flash, so there's less difference between them than benchmarks might suggest.

Burtoner said:
My motherboard is a Asus Z170 Pro Gaming so is probably is an older gen 3?
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Yes.

Burtoner said:
There are so many on the market, and i noticed the difference in prices is just down to the speeds
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Right now, I'd just get whatever is a good deal, because the deals are changing weekly and they make the prices really jumbled up, where higher tier drives can be cheaper (sometimes much cheaper) than lower tier drives.
 
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