Reinstall windows on NVME, for max performance?

opethdisciple · 6 Nov 2018 at 17:25

So I just took the plunge on a 970 Evo as an upgrade from my MX100.

Is it perceptibly faster or have I wasted my money?

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opethdisciple · 8 Nov 2018 at 21:47

Q.

I've noticed on the Samsung website that there is an NVME driver. Do I need to install this?

When I set up a 970 Evo on a mates machine I wasn't aware of this driver and just let windows do it's thing.

Also to flash firmware do I do it through the magician software?

opethdisciple · 9 Nov 2018 at 15:08

Jamin280672 said:
Yes and Yes

Thanks

opethdisciple · 13 Nov 2018 at 17:53

Question.

I can clone my existing drive to the new 970.

But is there any performance loss doing this? Am I better off reinstalling windows for maximum performance?

opethdisciple · 15 Nov 2018 at 15:56

I can announce that switching from my Crucial MX100 to a 970 EVO has netted me ZERO performance gain. (Games)

Synthetic benchmarks I am over TEN times the speed. But windows and game load times remain unchanged.