What's your latest tech purchase?

[P4-630]

 

[trickson]

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Just got 2 500GB ones they are fast and nice.

 

[P4-630]

Just got 2 500GB ones they are fast and nice.

This is my second 860 evo 1tb, I chose this one because it was cheaper than the new 870 and this one has the same 600TBW/5 year warranty.
Ok the new 870 evo is a little bit faster but I wouldn't notice the difference anyway I think (except when benchmarking ofc).
I was also looking at the crucial x500 1tb but it has a TBW of 360 only.

I built a PC for a nephew and installed a Crucial MX500 250GB, we had issues right away and it died quickly.
RMA got a new one and that one was ok though.

In my own PC all my SSD drives are samsung and never had any issues with them in all these years.

 

[trickson]

This is my second 860 evo 1tb, I chose this one because it was cheaper than the new 870 and this one has the same 600TBW/5 year warranty.
Ok the new 870 evo is a little bit faster but I wouldn't notice the difference anyway I think (except when benchmarking ofc).
I was also looking at the crucial x500 1tb but it has a TBW of 360 only.

I built a PC for a nephew and installed a Crucial MX500 250GB, we had issues right away and it died quickly.
RMA got a new one and that one was ok though.

In my own PC all my SSD drives are samsung and never had any issues with them in all these years.

Have you used a M.2 SSD yet?
If not once you do, It will make you go .
The difference is so noticeable even from the SSD you will go .

 

[GerKNG]

enough Ampere now it's AMDs turn

 

[P4-630]

Have you used a M.2 SSD yet?
If not once you do, It will make you go .
The difference is so noticeable even from the SSD you will go .

Yeah I already had one, I have only one M.2 slot on my motherboard and I bought a Samsung 970 evo 500GB for my C partition, installed windows 10 on it and also installed some games on it.
I have GTA V installed on it among some other games, I had regular stutters when playing GTA V in the past (I was using windows 8.1 before), installing on the NVMe SSD helped with this game.

 

[trickson]

enough Ampere now it's AMDs turn

HOLY SHIT!
Is that a computer?

 

[kapone32]

HOLY SHIT!
Is that a computer?

The boxes on the 6000 series cards are ginormous.

 

[trickson]

Here it is Finally!!
Feast your eyes on put beauty, speed and durability!
The TUF ASUS Marauder! 3700HP! LOL....

 

[Valantar]

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Here it is Finally!!
Feast your eyes on put beauty, speed and durability!
The TUF ASUS Marauder! 3700HP! LOL....

Are those fans mounted outside of the case frame, inside of the front panel? Ugh, that's not good for airflow, pushing them right up against the glass like that. Looks purdy, but runs hot. If I were you I'd move the fans to inside of the frame, that way they'll have much better access to pulling air in from the side vents.

 

[trickson]

Are those fans mounted outside of the case frame, inside of the front panel? Ugh, that's not good for airflow, pushing them right up against the glass like that. Looks purdy, but runs hot. If I were you I'd move the fans to inside of the frame, that way they'll have much better access to pulling air in from the side vents.

LOL dude there are fine and push a ton of air and no they are not up against the glass.

 

[FireFox]

Which one for Gaming?

Western Digital Black 1TB - €134.90​

Read Speed

3430 Megabytes Per Second

970 EVO Plus - €124.90​

Read Speed	3500 Megabytes Per Second
Write Speed	3300

Western Digital Blue 1TB - €99.99​

Read Speed 2400 Megabytes Per Second

 

[P4-630]

Which one for Gaming?

Western Digital Black 1TB - €134.90​

Read Speed

3430 Megabytes Per Second

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970 EVO Plus - €124.90​

Read Speed	3500 Megabytes Per Second
Write Speed	3300

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Western Digital Blue 1TB - €99.99​

Read Speed 2400 Megabytes Per Second
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Besides speeds and price I also look at TBW values / warranty periods.

 

[Valantar]

LOL dude there are fine and push a ton of air and no they are not up against the glass.

You clearly aren't a reader/viewer of GamersNexus case reviews I guess I should clarify: when I said "up against the glass", I didn't mean literally pushing against it, just being mounted close to it, say <20mm. GN has established quite conclusively that the closer to the glass a fan is mounted, the more airflow is restricted, and installations like that (fans mounted outside of the case frame, behind glass or other solid material with side vents) is pretty much a worst case scenario. It kind of works, but the fans are choked off significantly (as the convoluted and narrow airflow path restricts airflow) and thus perform worse than they could in a more optimal installation. A vented front panel is much better, but of course that's difficult if one wants TG and RGB. I'm just saying you could run your fans slower (for less noise) at the same thermals or the same speed but at lower temperatures by making a small change to the configuration of your case. Just sharing a tip.

 

[FireFox]

warranty periods.

They have 2 years warranty and if i want i can add another year for 8€ or 2 years for 10€

 

[P4-630]

They have 2 years warranty and if i want i can add another year for 8€ or 2 years for 10€

Hmm, the 970 evo plus has a 5 year warranty/600TBW and costs 127 EUR at the moment in my country.

Specificaties van Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB - Tweakers

tweakers.net

 

[Valantar]

Besides speeds and price I also look at TBW values / warranty periods.

TBW is not really a useful metric for normal consumer usage, particularly a game drive. Even a QLC drive can handle any realistic amount of frequent large game installs for its entire warranty period and far beyond. A long warranty is obviously a good thing, though.

They have 2 years warranty and if i want i can add another year for 8€ or 2 years for 10€

I would choose whichever drive gives you the most capacity for your money while also having a good warranty. Adding 2 years of warranty for €10 sounds reasonable. Of course check reviews. But for game drive use, performance differences are typically tiny between high-end and low-end drives. Oh, and don't get a cacheless SATA drive, and I'd even stay away from HMB-compatible cacheless NVMe drives, as the lack of local DRAM can hurt real-world performance (random reads and writes in particular).

 

[FireFox]

Hmm, the 970 evo plus has a 5 year warranty/600TBW and costs 127 EUR at the moment in my country.

Maybe i get the 2 years warranty because i am buying it on Amazon?

I would choose whichever drive gives you the most capacity for your money while also having a good warranty. Adding 2 years of warranty for €10 sounds reasonable. Of course check reviews. But for game drive use, performance differences are typically tiny between high-end and low-end drives. Oh, and don't get a cacheless SATA drive, and I'd even stay away from HMB-compatible cacheless NVMe drives, as the lack of local DRAM can hurt real-world performance (random reads and writes in particular).

What would you suggest?

My only concern about NVMe M.2 is that they tend to get pretty hot, sometimes i play Games for 9/10 hours straight

 

[tabascosauz]

@Knoxx29 I have the SN750 and SN550 and I'd say go for the SN550 or Evo Plus.

The SN750's random performance is pretty lackluster so its only real perk is its power consumption for laptop usage, which is irrelevant now that Hynix destroyed everyone else's efficiency with its P31. My B550M TUF Wifi doesn't seem to like it very much; I get stornvme errors from time to time and the drive disappears until I reboot, so I only use it for less important shit.

The SN550 offers pretty good efficiency and consistency. Its sequential is obviously lower as part of being DRAMless, but what performance it can manage is well and consistent. Power consumption seems subjectively better than the SN750 - my XPS 9370 does fare better with the SN550 than the SN750 and its original PM981.

EVO Plus if you *really* need the sequential performance, but if you're just looking for a drive to do its job coolly and efficiently then it's a bit of a waste. EVO Plus has a heatsinked controller that makes good contact with most heatsinks, but it's a hot controller. The SN550 runs pretty cool even though it has an unheatsinked controller.

 

[ThrashZone]

Which one for Gaming?

Western Digital Black 1TB - €134.90​

Read Speed

3430 Megabytes Per Second

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970 EVO Plus - €124.90​

Read Speed	3500 Megabytes Per Second
Write Speed	3300

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Western Digital Blue 1TB - €99.99​

Read Speed 2400 Megabytes Per Second
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Hi,
Blue series is for data but I wouldn't say game data a good choice for one
So evo plus or black either one would be good black may run cooler sammy's do run hot.

 

[trickson]

You clearly aren't a reader/viewer of GamersNexus case reviews I guess I should clarify: when I said "up against the glass", I didn't mean literally pushing against it, just being mounted close to it, say <20mm. GN has established quite conclusively that the closer to the glass a fan is mounted, the more airflow is restricted, and installations like that (fans mounted outside of the case frame, behind glass or other solid material with side vents) is pretty much a worst case scenario. It kind of works, but the fans are choked off significantly (as the convoluted and narrow airflow path restricts airflow) and thus perform worse than they could in a more optimal installation. A vented front panel is much better, but of course that's difficult if one wants TG and RGB. I'm just saying you could run your fans slower (for less noise) at the same thermals or the same speed but at lower temperatures by making a small change to the configuration of your case. Just sharing a tip.

It's a lot hotter case the Air Lani case it was in I may go back I don't see the CPU passing 61c now it's passing it and heading to 65c is this safe for this CPU?

 

[FireFox]

The only reason i want a NVMe is because my PC is too heavy and i dont feel to move it from where it is otherwise i would have bought a WD Black 2.5.

as for the 970 Evo Plus i can get something like this:

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I'd make sure the m.2 with the heatsink fits on your mother board slot
I had a X11 formula briefly and I couldn't use a heatsink.

Now I use Apex and dimm_2 slot plenty of room for heatsinks

 

[tabascosauz]

The only reason i want a NVMe is because my PC is too heavy and i dont feel to move it from where it is otherwise i would have bought a WD Black 2.5.

as for the 970 Evo Plus i can get something like this:

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You missed WD's fire sale about 6 months ago, they had the EK SN750 on their website for lower price than the regular one. Unless you can get that kind of sale price again, the EK heatsink really only improves temps by 4-5 degrees. It's a nice design though.

Hi,
Blue series is for data but I wouldn't say game data a good choice for one
So evo plus or black either one would be good black may run cooler sammy's do run hot.

Not sure why you think it wouldn't suffice for game data. Can't notice any difference in game loading between the SN750 and SN550. "Blue" means nothing if you can get 5400rpm, 7200rpm, SATA3 and NVMe all under the same Blue banner.

SN750 is a warm running drive. Not really any cooler than the EVO Plus, other than being more viable for laptop use than the Samsung. For more $ than the Samsung, nahhh.

It made sense for me at the time because the Samsung drives are twice the price of other NVMes where I am.

 

[FireFox]

SN550. "Blue

Isn't DRAMless?