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System Name | BarnacleMan |
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Processor | 14700KF |
Motherboard | Gigabyte B760 Aorus Elite Ax DDR5 |
Cooling | ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 240 + P12 Max Fans |
Memory | 32GB Kingston Fury Beast |
Video Card(s) | Asus Tuf 4090 24GB |
Storage | 4TB sn850x, 2TB sn850x, 2TB Netac Nv7000 + 2TB p5 plus, 4TB MX500 * 2 = 18TB. Plus dvd burner. |
Display(s) | Dell 23.5" 1440P IPS panel |
Case | Lian Li LANCOOL II MESH Performance Mid-Tower |
Audio Device(s) | Logitech Z623 |
Power Supply | Gigabyte 850w |
As some of you may know, I recently purchased 2 4TB mx500s and I have been quite disappointed with their performance. I bought them because my 1TB mx500s were great and I was out m.2 slots. But these suck once the burst speed is used up, sustained write can get very very slow, even when working in tandem.
I do have primocache, but not really enough free ram to make meaningful difference. Could I dedicate part of one of one my faster m.2s to speed up the mx500s in the same way I would with ram? I guess I could just buy more ram but that seems a little overkill. Plus I'm waiting for those single rank 64gb kits if they ever come to be before ddr6.
The other option I was thinking was just to remove one of my 2tb m.2s and replace it with a 4TB and then just sell the mx500s, or at least one of them... and then so it doesn't go to waste, take that old m.2 and put it through a m.2>sata adapter. Sure the max speed will take quite a hit but max speed was never really the problem it was the sustained speed that drives me up the wall.
Or do I have room for another m.2? So I already have 3, 2tb each.. I have 14700k with 24 lanes. 4 lanes to the chipset, 4 lanes to the primary m.2 and 16 to the gpu. But on the chipset side of things I have the b760 so that should give me 10 pcie4 lanes ( 8 lanes used up by the second and third m.2... btw... what are those remaining 2 lanes doing?). I would happily use a half speed gen 4 ssd but is that what would happen? Or would it take lanes away from something else like the gpu?
The last thing I noticed is that the b760 chipset contains 4 pcie3 lanes. If I bought an adapter card and plugged it into a pcie slot... Would that work without taking away from any other devices? Looking at my board, I believe I only have 3x1 and 3x2. But hell even 3x2 is a lot faster than what these damn mx500s are giving me.
The last possibility is just connecting something through USB 3 but man I hate doing stuff like that. Its always so dangly and finicky.
Thank you.
I do have primocache, but not really enough free ram to make meaningful difference. Could I dedicate part of one of one my faster m.2s to speed up the mx500s in the same way I would with ram? I guess I could just buy more ram but that seems a little overkill. Plus I'm waiting for those single rank 64gb kits if they ever come to be before ddr6.
The other option I was thinking was just to remove one of my 2tb m.2s and replace it with a 4TB and then just sell the mx500s, or at least one of them... and then so it doesn't go to waste, take that old m.2 and put it through a m.2>sata adapter. Sure the max speed will take quite a hit but max speed was never really the problem it was the sustained speed that drives me up the wall.
Or do I have room for another m.2? So I already have 3, 2tb each.. I have 14700k with 24 lanes. 4 lanes to the chipset, 4 lanes to the primary m.2 and 16 to the gpu. But on the chipset side of things I have the b760 so that should give me 10 pcie4 lanes ( 8 lanes used up by the second and third m.2... btw... what are those remaining 2 lanes doing?). I would happily use a half speed gen 4 ssd but is that what would happen? Or would it take lanes away from something else like the gpu?
The last thing I noticed is that the b760 chipset contains 4 pcie3 lanes. If I bought an adapter card and plugged it into a pcie slot... Would that work without taking away from any other devices? Looking at my board, I believe I only have 3x1 and 3x2. But hell even 3x2 is a lot faster than what these damn mx500s are giving me.
The last possibility is just connecting something through USB 3 but man I hate doing stuff like that. Its always so dangly and finicky.
Thank you.