April 15, 201610 yr 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
April 15, 201610 yr That ssd sounds awesome. Had no idea there was storage on PCI. You're gonna love the sound card.
April 16, 201610 yr Author 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
April 16, 201610 yr The benchmark scores are ridiculous; unfortunately, my motherboard doesn't support it. Definitely order one if you can though!
April 16, 201610 yr 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.
April 17, 201610 yr Author 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
April 17, 201610 yr 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.
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