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[Colif]

PCie 4x4 is the same speed as pcie 5x2 so drive performs the same regardless of slot its put in.

different channels suggest different uses for those drives, he says not to use as a games drive yet another I watched said they should be fine, just don't use in a PS5 as they don't work well with dramless drives.

 

[Zed Clampet]

PCie 4x4 is the same speed as pcie 5x2 so drive performs the same regardless of slot its put in.

different channels suggest different uses for those drives, he says not to use as a games drive yet another I watched said they should be fine, just don't use in a PS5 as they don't work well with dramless drives.

I've already been using the 4TB as a game drive and it works great.

 

[BeardyHat]

Windowshopping again. This time for a 2TB SSD. I'd like to get one for my upcoming Win 11 install, but finding one with all the features I want seems to be a bit harder than I thought. There are just so many SSD's out there, and sites like Amazon and Newegg don't do the best job of explaining all the specific details.

The details of this recap may not be accurate due to me not looking inside for a while, but I believe this is what is going on in my setup:

Currently, I have two M2 SSDs and a SATA SSD. One M2 is inside of a M2-to-SATA enclosure, due to not being able to fit in one of the M2 slots (second slot is shorter and slower Gen2, and SSD didn’t fit with no extra screw hole in mobo to mount it). So I have my fastest 2500MB/s in the M2 slot, and both SSDs connected via SATA are running at 500MB/s. Speed is not much of an issue to me, everything still loads just fine, but my main SSD has an issue: it’s DRAMless which causes downloads to be incredibly slow to it. So really I’m stuck downloading and playing games on the slower SSDs because they download games at full speed and I don’t want to move them, the DRAMless one has issues keeping up read/write speeds during downloads and copying larger files. Playing games on it isn’t an issue but downloading is.

SO, I want to replace main M2 slot with a durable SSD. It’s only Gen3, so it maxes at 3500MB/s which is fine to me. I want a 2TB SSD with good cache, good DRAM, good 3D NAND, all the bells and whistles so it doesn’t give me any issues, at a reasonable price preferably below $120. I think I can move my current main drive to the shorter slot and reduce its speed to a max 1500MB/s which is still faster than SATA, and keep both SATA drives for backups.

I know pretty much nothing about SSD's, but I picked this guy up for my new laptop just over a month ago and it's been plenty fast.

Edit: the 2Tb variant, I mean.

 

[Colif]

Ram arrived

feels like I am missing something

Doesn't feel enough... I can't as such put GPU there or I wouldn't have a PC now. Guess there really aren't that many parts.
Now just need the case, motherboard and PSU. Hopefully they get sent out today, showed as shipped yesterday but if I click link in email, its still showing as being at their store.

5k is at least PCIe4
its only meant to be up to 5150 so yours is over achieving.

they all fast, nvme get a to a point where you really can't see a difference between 5k and 10k. Can only load files so fast. Its one reason I didn't care about pcie 5 drives.

 

[Colif]

Went out to local shops for shopping and get home to find 2 boxes on the front step.
From a distance I could tell what one was

So my collection is now complete

I don't even know who it came with - courier company wise - it was meant to be Auspost but it never showed on my account.
They are not meant to leave boxes like that at all.
especially since the Case box was obvious, it wasn't even wrapped

We were only out 30 minutes. I wouldn't have gone anywhere if I knew it was coming.
Everything seems okay.

 

[Frindis]

@Colif Is that the transport box and the box with the tower is inside of it?

 

[Colif]

I hope so... I didn't buy a cardboard case

its got foam inside. On top/bottom of the case. I could feel it when I put case down.
need some padding to make sure glass isn't broken... I haven't opened the box but I didn't hear anything moving inside when I was holding it so I am assuming its fine. (damn it you made me wonder now).
Small check by opening box seems to indicate its fine. Very white.

not many unboxings actually start at the box.

I looked inside box just enough to see color was right, and then noticed code for case mentions its color.

The first few cases I owned were cheap and didn't come in boxes, but pretty sure my last 3 did. I might even have the box for one of them decaying in garage still. I am not sure about one case. It was a Lian LI case but it was 20 years ago so I don't know for sure. The IBM Aptiva would have had boxes but I forgot it existed.

 

[Colif]

Idea was to get PSU so I could see model number and order Cablemod cables to replace the stock ones.
That was idea until I got to end of the order form and saw they charge per cable. A $USD 40 ATX 12 Pin cable better look amazing.

They not bad but not OMG I must have them good.

Given conversion rate, I decided I didn't feel like adding up an entire PSU worth of cables knowing I couldn't afford it now. Might buy some next year.
I see how the stock cables for PSU look... they don't seem as bright as the case

NZXT C1000 Gold | LTT Labs

Test results and review of NZXT C1000 Gold

www.lttlabs.com

note: thought about it later, only really need custom cables for the ones you can see. Others might not be so necessary. Such as sata (MB comes with one white sata cable) and any others than don't appear at front.

Timing is when you buy your case and then watch two reviews about brand new cases that almost beat it in cooling. Lian LI Lancool 217 and Fractal Design Meshify 3 might have made my decision much harder had I waited a few more weeks.

Now I just should ignore case reviews for ... 5 years.