RoadRunner Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Ordered my i5-6600k and the Creative Sound Blaster Audigy XF 5.1 today! Exciting! But trying to decide if its worth getting a m.2 supported motherboard or not. Is the speed boost pretty noticeable over a standard sata SSD? I've read claims its 4x as fast but would love to hear some first hand experience from some TAC guys This is the hard drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147466 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueSteward Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 That ssd sounds awesome. Had no idea there was storage on PCI. You're gonna love the sound card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 Yeah i didnt even know this m.2 technology existed! I just found out a few days ago, I'm pretty excited to try it out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patches Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 No, I have not. But now you got me interested. Looks so yummy. :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfZero Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 The benchmark scores are ridiculous; unfortunately, my motherboard doesn't support it. Definitely order one if you can though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDU_Gunny Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 I have the Sabertooth X99 Asus board, which has the M.2 slot - I upgraded from a Samsung Evo 850 SSD to that same Samsung 950 Pro M.2. It is STUPID FAST, and I mean downright ridiculous. Especially when doing a lot of video editing/moving large files around/etc.. The thing that seems most noticeable to me is when doing file searches... near instantaneous even searching folders with thousands of files. Don't bother with other M.2 cards - most out there have the same specs as a regular SSD. The Samsung 950 Pro is top dog, like 5x faster, and the price is right. Totally worth it IMHO - I got the 500gb version... run OS all software & games from it. 256gb wasn't enough for me. I've seen adapters where you can use the m.2 card via a PCI slot on a non M.2 motherboard - but not sure you'd get the same performance. Easiest to just get the M/B with M.2 (Gen3 x4 !!), saves a lot of space too - it's literally the size of a stick of gum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner Posted April 17, 2016 Author Share Posted April 17, 2016 Awesome Gunny! That's exactly what I was hoping to hear! I think this is the board I've settled on http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128837 m.2 x2 SLI 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDU_Gunny Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Nice... I can only imagine how fast it would be if you striped two of those M.2 950 Pro's in Raid 0 :ohmy: That would be wicked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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