Recently I have customized my gaming setup. I have included lots of new upgrades in my setup. Acer Predator X34 Monitor ASUS RoG Swift Monitor LG 39” TV LG NB3530a Soundbar Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum Mouse Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum Keyboard Razer Orbweaver Chroma Keypad Beyerdynamic T90 Headphone Phanteks Evolv ATX Case Intel i7 6700K CPU Gigabyte Motherboard HyperX Fury RAM EVGA GTX 1080 GPU Samsung 950 Pro M.2 Samsung 850 500GB SSD RGB LED Light Strip Water Cooling Components This is my new setup. Should I change anything else?
Why do so many people go for a Samsung 950 Pro M.2 instead of a much cheaper "normal" SSD? I've read that M.2s weren't much faster unless you copy a huge amount of data every day and you have a second one which you copy that data to. (It's an honest question because a friend of mine bought a brand new PC a couple of weeks ago and also uses a M.2. He got it for the same price as a normal SSD. He was very lucky. I searched for similiar offers but couldn't find one. M.2 seems always to be 100 EUR more expensive. Sorry my english is crappy.)
Unless you're heavily into ricer car culture I'd ditch the LED strip myself. Grats on the new setup, should run like a beaut.
my M.2 NVME PCIe (32GBit/s) SSD (Intel) is about 4 times faster in reading and 2 times faster in writing than my normal Crucial 525GB SATA (6 GBit/s) SSD. And I've got a cheap M.2, not even a fast one.. only paid 90€ für 256GB. The Crucial 525GB was 160€. And my M.2 is like 10 times faster reading (5 times faster writing) than my Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD. The advantage of M.2 is the faster PCIe connection (beware, there are also M.2 SSDs out there which use only SATA 6 GBit/s connection), and the small form factor. It doesnt really waste space and is more or less "invisible" at first glance.
Thank you very much. So probably I only read about those M.2 SSDs. Do you think or know (from your own experiences) a "normal" PC user or simracer would notice any difference in loading times? (real M.2 vs. SSD 6 Gbit/s)
I can't really tell. On my M.2 I only have my Windows and Programs. All games are on the "normal" SSD.