Upgrading to my first Nvme PCi 4.0 SSD!

bozzer31

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Hi Guys, new to Overlockers and I'm here with a new/still building Rig setup, currently upgrading day by day with parts from my old setup and slowly getting through the rubbish!
haven't built a PC in about 8 years so bare with me!:cool::confused:

My Current Rig Is:

CORSAIR Crystal Series 680X RGB Case, Black
Asus ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core Processor Socket AM4 (1331) O/C at 4550Mhz
Corsair HS100i Watercooler
Corsair Vengeance DDR4 16GB (x2 8GB) @ 2666Mhz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB *OLD HARDWARE

Western Digital 1TB HDD *OLD HARDWARE
Western Digital 2TB HDD *OLD HARDWARE
Sandisc 120GB SSD *OLD HARDWARE

I have just purchased a:
1TB Gigabyte AORUS SSD, M.2 (2280) PCIe 4.0 (x4) NVMe SSD, 3D TLC, 5000MB/s Read, 4400MB/s Write which is on route!

I currently have my 120GB SSD as a system drive windows Windows 10 Pro.

My question is would you still use this "Slower" SSD as a system drive and use my new 1TB NVMe drive solely as a gaming drive? or is it worth having windows installed on the 1TB NVMe and completely ditching the old Sata SSD?

Will there be any noticeable differences for running windows on the faster drive or keeping them separate.
How would you set up these drives?

I am still wanting to keep the old 1TB and 2 TB Drives or at least one of them for other less used software etc But this is mainly a gaming setup!

Thanks guys any help is much appreciated

Boz.:)
 
I would dump the 120GB SSD and use your shiny new m.2 drive for windows and games, I would want windows on the fastest drive, it will certainly be faster than the SSD you have. Keep you HDD's and perhaps consider replacing with one larger HDD (7200rpm), if they are really old, you can get a 4TB one for ~£100.

One fast m.2 for windows and games and one large HDD for other stuff, much neater setup.
 
I don't necessarily disagree with the above, it'll be much easier to manage stuff on the larger m.2 drive so I'd worth doing, but when it comes to traditional sata SSDs Vs m.2 SSDs dont be fooled by the on paper quoted speeds, because reality might not be what you'd expect....

 
Instead of super expensive motherboard etc you should have gotten better memories.
2666 MHz simply sucks donkey balls for Ryzen crippling performance in gaming and many other things.
 
Great thanks much appreciated.. the RAM is old hardware from my old build as well just chucked them in for now! but I am going to upgrade them soon to probably 32gb ish?! what sort of frequency would you recommend? just as much as i can afford? :(:D
and then plan is to get hold of a new 3070/3080 RTX Card soon as they come about a bit more!
 
Pcie doesn't have the limitations of sata, so it's fine to have your OS and games on the same drive.

I'd be inclined to ditch the hdds and pick up a 1tb pcie 3.0 m.2 from your favourite tat bazar.

Like @EsaT said, your memory is the real bottleneck.
 
BUDFORCE said:
I don't necessarily disagree with the above, it'll be much easier to manage stuff on the larger m.2 drive so I'd worth doing, but when it comes to traditional sata SSDs Vs m.2 SSDs dont be fooled by the on paper quoted speeds, because reality might not be what you'd expect....

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Man im tempted to send this new Drive back :D:confused::o
 
I wouldn't worry, other than the speed, m.2 drives are now more or less the same price for the storage (you might have paid a bit of a premium on that one because it's PCIE4) and they have other practicalities, like fit straight onto your board, so no physical drive to have to place in you case, no cables to manage, plus cables themselves increase the amount of connection points which increase failure points.

It won't be long until really large m.2 SSDs are available at competitive prices, and particularly if you have a motherboard with 2 m.2 slits, have you 1tb, then in maybe a year or two you might find 4+tb quite affordable.

I've personally done away with mechanical drives all together now I have a 2tb m.2, 1tb SATA which is enough storage for my needs.
 
I think you might notice a difference, but it will be small. The biggest difference you'll see is when you copy large files on the same drive. But I'd still want the fastest drive to be my OS, programs and gaming drive - what's the point in using a slow drive when you have a fast drive available?

When I upgraded my SATA SSD to an M.2, I was expecting the world of difference. But to be quite honest with you, the difference in speed was almost invisible - I did notice faster load times, but only slight. For me the biggest difference is when using virtual machines and shunting around large files, as I use frequently MSMG's ToolKit to customise my Windows images.
 
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