XanderTheGoober
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I have never been much for in depth introductions so here's my issue.
I want more SSD storage on my pc and I am thinking of going m.2 PCIE ssd such as a 960 samsung 500gb. I currently only have a 250GB samsung 850 evo sata ssd.
here is the system specs:
cpu: i7 4770k @4.0ghz
ram: 16GB gskill 186mhz ddr3
motherboard: Asus Z970 Hero LGA 1150
gpu1: msi gtx 1070 8gb
gpu2: msi gtx 650ti 1GB (for aux displays)
I am running an additional nvidia card to run aux displays due to the intel onboard graphics being very slow to alt+tab while I am in a full screen game. we're talking 10+ seconds vs 1 second while running all monitors off of nvidia cards. I use all the outputs available on both cards to run 7 monitors, yes i know it's overkill and no I don't care. for those of you that are curious here's an image of my setup.
So back to the core issue, I want faster and more ssd capacity in my system and I do plan on upgrading the system in the next 1 to 2 years. I want to go with an m.2 ssd as pcie will be faster than a single sata ssd. I know the m.2 on this board was when the technology for m.2 pcie was still rather young so the throughput tops out at 1250MB/s or something along those lines. with that said it would only be rivaled by putting 2 ssds in raid 0, which would still require me purchasing an additional ssd.
My first question is with only 16 pcie lanes on the chip and having 2 cards in the system will I have to manually set the secondary 650ti to 4x pcie to have enough available lanes for the ssd?
second question: does it make sense to go with an m.2 pcie 3.0 4x with the intent of upgrading the whole system down the road and migrating the ssd to the new system to improve speeds from 1250MB/s to 3000+Mb/s?
with the 9th gen coming out very soon it is a gray area of what cpu will be best going forward (i7 9700 or 8700k) as I game and stream and the system overall is starting to feel a bit on the sluggish side when i am trying to stream gameplay, and then watch back the stream for monitoring purposes, and then the playback lags off of twitch. This could be a limitation of the ethernet itself but you would think uploading at 4mb/s and downloading at 5mb/s wouldn't be a problem as I should have plenty of headroom with a gigabit ethernet port, and a full gigabit network. to monitor my stream from twitch i usually have to fire up my laptop which is kinda inconvenient, especially since i have plenty of monitor real estate on the desktop as it is. Sorry for getting slightly side tracked but I thought I would express the reasons for wanting to upgrade in case anyone wants to know.
Let me know your thoughts on the situation. Thanks!
-Xander
I want more SSD storage on my pc and I am thinking of going m.2 PCIE ssd such as a 960 samsung 500gb. I currently only have a 250GB samsung 850 evo sata ssd.
here is the system specs:
cpu: i7 4770k @4.0ghz
ram: 16GB gskill 186mhz ddr3
motherboard: Asus Z970 Hero LGA 1150
gpu1: msi gtx 1070 8gb
gpu2: msi gtx 650ti 1GB (for aux displays)
I am running an additional nvidia card to run aux displays due to the intel onboard graphics being very slow to alt+tab while I am in a full screen game. we're talking 10+ seconds vs 1 second while running all monitors off of nvidia cards. I use all the outputs available on both cards to run 7 monitors, yes i know it's overkill and no I don't care. for those of you that are curious here's an image of my setup.
So back to the core issue, I want faster and more ssd capacity in my system and I do plan on upgrading the system in the next 1 to 2 years. I want to go with an m.2 ssd as pcie will be faster than a single sata ssd. I know the m.2 on this board was when the technology for m.2 pcie was still rather young so the throughput tops out at 1250MB/s or something along those lines. with that said it would only be rivaled by putting 2 ssds in raid 0, which would still require me purchasing an additional ssd.
My first question is with only 16 pcie lanes on the chip and having 2 cards in the system will I have to manually set the secondary 650ti to 4x pcie to have enough available lanes for the ssd?
second question: does it make sense to go with an m.2 pcie 3.0 4x with the intent of upgrading the whole system down the road and migrating the ssd to the new system to improve speeds from 1250MB/s to 3000+Mb/s?
with the 9th gen coming out very soon it is a gray area of what cpu will be best going forward (i7 9700 or 8700k) as I game and stream and the system overall is starting to feel a bit on the sluggish side when i am trying to stream gameplay, and then watch back the stream for monitoring purposes, and then the playback lags off of twitch. This could be a limitation of the ethernet itself but you would think uploading at 4mb/s and downloading at 5mb/s wouldn't be a problem as I should have plenty of headroom with a gigabit ethernet port, and a full gigabit network. to monitor my stream from twitch i usually have to fire up my laptop which is kinda inconvenient, especially since i have plenty of monitor real estate on the desktop as it is. Sorry for getting slightly side tracked but I thought I would express the reasons for wanting to upgrade in case anyone wants to know.
Let me know your thoughts on the situation. Thanks!
-Xander