PCIe4 and NVMe4
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mikef

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6,158 posts

281 months

Thursday 24th December 2020
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Ryzen 7 CPU and X570 mobo upgrade just completed. I'm not sure yet whether PCIe4 makes much difference to gaming, but stuck in a Sabrent NVMe4 SSD as system disk - holy poop!



The Rocket Plus model is supposed to hit 7,000 MB/s read...

mikef

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6,158 posts

281 months

Thursday 24th December 2020
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More to the point, it's twice as fast as my NVMe PICe3 SSDs, I have 7 of those going at last count

Lifeisalemon

244 posts

205 months

Thursday 24th December 2020
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Agreed. Just installed a new WD SN850. A bit quick!

mikef

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281 months

Thursday 24th December 2020
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Amazing. I just checked a WD Black HDD which was my system disk 10 years ago - 180 MB/s

snuffy

13,389 posts

314 months

Thursday 24th December 2020
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mikef said:
Ryzen 7 CPU and X570 mobo upgrade just completed. I'm not sure yet whether PCIe4 makes much difference to gaming, but stuck in a Sabrent NVMe4 SSD as system disk - holy poop!



The Rocket Plus model is supposed to hit 7,000 MB/s read...
I've just spent this week building my new Ryzen 3900XT and X570 and decided it was rude not to do a fresh windows install on a new hard drive, so I bought a Samsung 980 Pro (500GB):