My guess is there is still bus limits on the mb’s themselves, you need a lot channels to run something at 20 Gb/s
A lot of mbs will shut off sata channels if you use the m.2 slot.
Now, an nvme slot would put your 1200MB/s to shame, they are capable of 3500 MB/s (big b)
One thing to look into might be an SSD/HDD hybrid, it is what I use in my laptop, mostly the HDD stores the data and the SSD is what is used to access it (SSD in current laptop is too small to handle WoW storage).
I recently switched to the Samsung Evo 970 and it was one of the best choices I have ever made. I think I might buy a second when I get the next RTX cards.
It would go PCIe before it ever went USB.
Nice catch, I actually mistype that speed.
And yeah, NVMe outclasses anything external, but it’s still pretty amazing that 1200MB/s is possible with an external port that’s commonly found now even on low-midrange computers. TB3 has been around for a while and is faster but traditionally has only been on higher end machines.
6th gen is coming out soon too I believe? Saying its 128 GB/s, big B for 16x, 8 for 1x
As someone who knows nothing about computers, is an SSD something easily buyable and pluggable?
Id bet you can still play without one, but as someone who has built desktops since the early 90s I can honestly say that no single upgrade ive ever done ever offered such a drastic increase in performance as moving from HDD to SSD.
YOu can get them for under $100 for a 1TB.
You wont regret it.
We replaced our HDD and our optical disks with 1TB SSDs and bought a $30 externel DVD burner for when we do need to use a cd/dvd.
depends on your pc/laptop.
You can get externals if you have a good USB slot on your pc.
If its a desktop it literally should be taking out some screws, unplugging two cables and reversing the process going back in.
if youre doing a clean OS drive install, be sure to have your restore thumbdrive.
If its a second drive to run the game from, just find the cables and install the drive and get it secured into the case somewhere safe.
You may or may not have to check to see how to get your particular machine to recognize the drive. Some do it automatically, some dont
Ah okay cool.
I’ve actually been going through hell lately when I tried to upgrade. Bought a new video card and now my computer restarts on its own, and WoW is unplayable for me at the moment. The idea of having to add something else on top of that now like an SSD is making me nervous.
did you seat it all the way?
I ask because I have a defective motherboard that one cable doesnt sit in tightly enough and I’ll get a random reboot if Im not actively making sure I dont bump the table too hard.
QC these days with these companies is a joke, lol
Could also be a case of the computer’s PSU not being able to meet the demand of the GPU, especially if it’s a prebuilt. Prebuilts use absolute crap PSUs.
Yep. I’ve been working with some IT guildies and we’ve narrowed it down to a defective card (did literally every test imaginable). Trying to get a return request from EVGA right now.
I got a brand new power supply along with it. That is not the problem.
and that, lol.
Or a driver issue. Or a bad card.
Ive been handed some machines that were a nightmare to figure out.
One had a power button that went bad. took two hours to track it down because of how it was behaving.
You don’t need an SSD, you still have to wait for everyone else to load into whatever content you’re doing; it’s a nice perk but saving 5 seconds from a loading screen won’t make or break your experience.
SSDs are pretty easy to add to desktops so long as you have a free SATA port (for 2.5” drives). M.2 are even easier to install, although sometimes using your M.2 slot might disable some SATA ports or PCIe slots (depends on the motherboard).
They don’t use much power and you can just keep adding drives to Windows. I’ve got 5 separate drive volumes on my main PC.
Can you give exact specs for all components?
omg, I can’t imagine how frustrating that must’ve been. On-mobo power switches should be standard issue.
Been there, done that, lol.
All the years Ive been doing desktops ive only seen a few bad items out of the box…not overly common at all. But it happens. And sometimes its gruesome trying to figure out what doesnt work right.
Glad you figured it out.