[SOLVED] 1st m.2 nvme and I am a little lost

[Druzil]

This is the first pc I have built in over a decade and as such is my first experience with an m.2 drive. I went with the intel 660p but I am not sure it is performing as it should. The Userbenchmark test says it is not performing as expected but the crystal disk mark seems to be generating numbers closer to what some posts I have seen say it should. That said I cannot seem to find a clear answer on exactly what numbers I should be seeing with this setup. I have updated the drivers and checked bios settings and it all seems to be correct. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. All hardware is listed on the userbenchmark result. The drive still seems to perform very well but if I am leaving some performance on the table I would like to claim it.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/23170939

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CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 x64 (C) 2007-2019 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/
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• MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
• KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

[Read]
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 1811.697 MB/s [ 1727.8 IOPS] < 4626.74 us>
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 1598.519 MB/s [ 1524.5 IOPS] < 655.53 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 76.408 MB/s [ 18654.3 IOPS] < 26212.24 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 63.894 MB/s [ 15599.1 IOPS] < 63.97 us>

[Write]
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 1800.697 MB/s [ 1717.3 IOPS] < 4650.51 us>
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 1738.886 MB/s [ 1658.3 IOPS] < 602.62 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 39.387 MB/s [ 9616.0 IOPS] < 52418.84 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 192.677 MB/s [ 47040.3 IOPS] < 21.12 us>

Profile: Default
Test: 1 GiB (x5) [Interval: 5 sec] <DefaultAffinity=DISABLED>
Date: 2019/12/29 16:35:40
OS: Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 18363] (x64)

 

[rgd1101]

You looking at the userbenchmark result wrong. look a the blue text. not the red one. red one compare all different nvme ssd

 

[Druzil]

I am not sure that is the case. I had the same kind of alert on the ram when I did not have the xmp profile set but it went away when i changed that so I am pretty sure it is indicating that my drive specifically is performing below expectation. Blue is the average user bench for this part and mine is behind the average by 17%.

 

[USAFRet]

(ignore userbenchmark. useless tool)
Run CrystalDiskMark, screencap the output, and post here.

This is from my 660p

 

[Druzil]

(ignore userbenchmark. useless tool)
Run CrystalDiskMark, screencap the output, and post here.

I was starting to suspect this was the case. The numbers at the end of my first post are the crystal diskmark output. I am pretty close to the max numbers you posted but all over the place on the rest.

 

[USAFRet]

I was starting to suspect this was the case. The numbers at the end of my first post are the crystal diskmark output. I am pretty close to the max numbers you posted but all over the place on the rest.

Being the OS drive has an impact. While testing, it is also doing OS things.