Asus H110m-e M.2 supports intel optane?

[fedenogues]

My friend and I are planning to buy a compatible motherboard for our new pcs and looking at this moyherboard at a good price with M.2 slot made me wonder if it does support the intel optane for a future upgrade

 

[Darkbreeze]

There are no 100 series Intel boards that support Optane. They are too old. There wasn't even an Optane TO support when that board was made. You need a much newer Kaby or Coffee lake, or possibly one of the Ryzen boards if you want Optane support. And it will have to be a higher end board. Entry level and low end business chip boards, non-enthusiast models, will likely be hit and miss for optane support.

 

[fedenogues]

So wich motherboard would you recommend? Maybe an Asus prime B250m-a?

 

[Darkbreeze]

Is there a reason you are wanting to do Optane? Personally, I'd rather do a standard PCI M.2 drive, especially if that is something you'll be looking to do in the future rather than immediately, since there are some M.2 PCIe drives slated for release that make Optane look somewhat silly on both sequential AND random performance especially if you factor in the likely price differences.

Like this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/phison-e12-fastest-ssd,36298.html


So, what is your budget, what country are you in and which parts exactly do you already have or are looking to upgrade?

 

[fedenogues]

Argentina. University students. We are making a basic pc for future work(we are studying Programing and systems) and gaming (will buy GPU when/if priced go down).
- I5 7500 (tried to get a good CPU so we dont have to upgrade it in a long time)
- 1TB HDD
- 8GB RAM

We want an Intel Optane motherboard since Optane is cheaper than an SSD here (SSD is AR$ 1800-2000 = USD 90-100) (Intel Optane is AR$ 900-1100 = USD 45-55) and has almost the same performance upgrade.

 

[USAFRet]

We want an Intel Optane motherboard since Optane is cheaper than an SSD here (SSD is AR$ 1800-2000 = USD 90-100) (Intel Optane is AR$ 900-1100 = USD 45-55) and has almost the same performance upgrade.

Which Optane?
The cache Optane @ 16-32GB?
Or the drive Optane @ 480GB?

With the cache, the write speed of the drive is still HDD performance. You only get a boost in read.

 

[fedenogues]

Cache Optane, hmm well I think we wont need better write time for now, and if we get more money we could later buy the ssd (above price was for a 120gb one)

 

[Darkbreeze]

I wouldn't bother with all that. Just get an SSD to install your OS and applications on. Standard SATA SSD or even a newer PCI M.2 drive.

As I said before, maybe even just get nothing for now, deal with what you have, wait until some of these PCI M.2 drives using the Phison E12 controller start showing up and get one of those. They have the advantage of having 960 EVO M.2 type sequential performance combined with MOSTLY better than Optane drive random performance. At least going off the initial results of that controller and configuration.

I was hell bent for getting a Samsung 960 EVO or Pro PCI M.2 drive until I saw the review of that Phison E12 and then instantly decided to wait because the random and not queue depth limited performance is impossible to ignore.

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