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Old January 2nd 18, 11:04 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 01/02/2018 3:29 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 01/02/2018 02:29 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
I want a box that can handle all the latest games; the ones that
demand everything of the best.
I've been looking around now for a few weeks, but the market is so
confusing.
Money is not much of an object; well, let's say 5k GBP max.

Should I get one purpose-built? Or a new year bargain?

My gut feeling says 16GB RAM (DDR7); 500GB SSD with 2TB spinner; good
video card; i7 quad-core CPU.

Who knows better?

Ed

And of course the SSD is not a hard drive looking one but one of the
newer card type SSDs that plug directly into the mobo.

A friend of mine did some research, and I have no idea what he was
talking about, but there seems to be different interfaces for these
SSDs. Some go through the SATA port and some right onto the mobo.
Not sure but like a PCIe card?

Again I don't know but it's worth looking into, that or someone else
will give you better details. All I remember is he went from slow
data rates to super fast rates that exceeded and SSD HD I've seen.

Yes, good luck, if money isn't the issue, you should be able to easily
do it, it's just finding the right stuff.


Hi AL, I think you mean MVNe -m2 drives, Yes superfast.

Rene


There are SATA III SSDs.

They keep making new standards for these, but they don't stick.

*******

There are M.2 surface mount SSDs that sit on the motherboard (4GB/sec max).

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16820147596

SAMSUNG 960 PRO M.2 512GB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal $300

Max Sequential Read Up to 3500 MBps
Max Sequential Write Up to 2100 MBps

4KB Random Read Up to 330,000 IOPS (4KB, QD32)
Up to 14,000 IOPS (4KB, QD1)

*******

There is a PCI Express form factor SSD, which probably
still has a roughly 4GB/sec max speed. These are NVMe.

Some of these cheat, and you find an M.2 card inside sitting
on an adapter.

https://images.anandtech.com/galleri...3/IMGP3852.jpg

There is a Canadian company that makes an adapter card,
that holds 4 M.2 at the same time, all running at full rate.
So if you want crazy, you can actually have crazy at a
reasonable price. You don't have to waste motherboard
surface area on planar M.2 mounts.

The Intel ones, might have a slower sustained, but better
random access at a lower queue depth. This might matter
if you were a software developer doing builds every day on
your machine, but things like this seem to be overkill to
me for regular desktops. Still, people buy the M.2 ones
quite regularly now. This doesn't use conventional Flash,
but uses 3D X-Point. Intel is trying to find a way to
prime the pump, and pay for the factory.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12136...p-480gb-review

Paul
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