Will Upgrading from a 970 Pro NVME to a Gen 5 be Noticeable?

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I have a Samsung 970 Pro as my OS drive which gets 3478 MB/s read and 2561 MB/s write speeds.

Not entirely happy with the speed at which my apps are launching (long story short just upgraded a 10 year old Intel Haswell-E to a 7950X and seeing no noticeable difference).

Will replacing this with a 2tb Gen 5 drive give a big enough improvement to be happy? Yes have a Gen 5 slot.

I want apps like Photoshop to load almost instantly. If it'3 3x faster to load Photoshop then I'm happy.

Thanks.
 
coupe69 said:
Just out of interest, when you upgraded did you also start with a fresh install of Windows too? Seems odd that you're seeing no noticeable difference between a brand new system v's a 10 year old unit.
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No I'm on the same Win 10 as I had before... surely that can't be the reason for it?

I tested Win 11 on a separate SSD after the build to make sure all is good before popping the Win 10 970 Pro back in.

Some things I didn't like about Win 11 was the task bar can't be moved to the top (why are these even on the bottom?) and it required a Hotmail acc to even use the system (I prefer keeping my personal stuff away from any cloud servers).
 
Yes apps are on the same drive... but I have 5 other drives connected (app shouldn't be accessing these though).

I haven't played with the BIOS yet... I did set the RAM to 6000 and it made the boot time take long (like a minute), so I went back to auto which is around 4800 and the boot times are now 14sec again.

So RAM is the only componment not running at rated speeds.

I do notice games running smoother and Photoshop is now able to deal with Panasonic 24mp RAW files better than before (no more lag when adjusting exposure in CameraRAW).

3DMark score around 18,500, about 15,000 for the CPU alone @ default settings 1440p.
 
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