Tmac
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WTF is up w those monstrous heatsinks? You can't even fit anything in that yellow PCIE slot can you?
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WTF is up w those monstrous heatsinks? You can't even fit anything in that yellow PCIE slot can you?
Kirun
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ROFL is that heatsink on the NVME slot? Holy fucking unnecessary, Batman. What a retarded fucking design.
Big Phoenix
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Not really. NVMEs get hot which directly impacts their performance. I mean who knows if that design will actually keep them cooler on that mobo but you want your nvme drives running as cool as possible.
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This is only sort of true. You don't want the actual memory, the NAND Flash to get cool. It operates best warm (like 50-70c or something). The controller generally gets hot as fuck though, and you probably want cooling for that. It's a weird situation. But really the difference between a shitty heatsink that comes with a budget motherboard and that monstrosity is probably like 2c at best. This shit's way more about visual than performance.
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Mist
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No, your sense of perspective is off from being a yellow-fever pedophile.
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Mist
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It also protects the NVME from the heat of being sandwiched between the GPU and CPU.
It's a little overengineered but this is PCIE 5.0 capable, needs to be future-proof.
Kirun
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Yeah, no. People VASTY overestimate how hot their NVME drives are getting/how much cooling they need. I had one in a 20 year old case with only 1 rear exhaust van and no other cooling, on an 11 year old board, attached to a shitty PCIE converter card with just the basic heatsink it came with - never reached above 33c.
I mean sure, they definitely need some form of heatsink/cooling, but that board is so fucking overboard it's comical.
Mist
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Well no shit it didn't get hot, there's no way it was transferring at more than 600 MB/s installed in such a way.
These new NVME SSDs can transfer at 7400 MB/s, and the next gen ones will probably come close to doubling that.
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spronk
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these are still in stock nearly an hour after going up, probably OOS any second but a 3060ti and 3070 (both LHR tho)
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Shit, nvme makes a difference over SSD for load times? You guys are making me want to upgrade to play PoE. They content bloated and did some fucking shitty implementation of texture streaming that somehow lead to LONGER map load times.
The irony of having to fight scalpers and flippers IRL just so I can fight scalpers and flippers in PoE.
The irony of having to fight scalpers and flippers IRL just so I can fight scalpers and flippers in PoE.
Big Phoenix
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Uhh they certainly do, its just youll run into games that simply dont benefit. Youre talking 500-600mb for sata3 drives compared to 2000mb+ for nvme drives.
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To use the FFXIV Benchmark total load times as a comparison:
SATA SSD 15-20 seconds
M.2 Generic 10-15 seconds
M.2 PS5 Speeds 7-10 seconds
Even turning a 4-5 second load into a 1-3 second is noticeable the more you play. Meanwhile some people still run old HDDs and hit 60+ seconds.
SATA SSD 15-20 seconds
M.2 Generic 10-15 seconds
M.2 PS5 Speeds 7-10 seconds
Even turning a 4-5 second load into a 1-3 second is noticeable the more you play. Meanwhile some people still run old HDDs and hit 60+ seconds.