[SOLVED] Asus z490 f gaming and Samsung 980 Pro

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Hello guys

i need your help, i install all my configuration today, i have a question about benchmark on 980 pro nvme, I run this from Samsung Magician and from crystal Disk, here u can find my result, can i ask u all why are so lower than other benchamrk i find on Internet? it should be like 6500 and not 3500.

980 pro Benchmark

i jUST NOTICED THAT ITS WORKING AS PCI 3X INSTEAD 4X, HOW I CAN SET IT TO 4X?

SOrry for my bad english i appreciate so much if ucan help me
 
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Do not worry about pcie 3/4.
It impacts sequential processing which is already very good at pcie 3.
Also realize that synthetic benchmark reviews are done on new drives which is faster than when a drive has been used and nand blocks are filled.

It is small random I/O that a ssd does best. Windows does that 90% of the time.

I think most Z490 based motherboards have announced intention via a bios update to support future rocket lake processors and perhaps pcie 4.0 as well.
Do some research to see what ASUS intends for your motherboard.

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Do not worry about pcie 3/4.
It impacts sequential processing which is already very good at pcie 3.
Also realize that synthetic benchmark reviews are done on new drives which is faster than when a drive has been used and nand blocks are filled.

It is small random I/O that a ssd does best. Windows does that 90% of the time.

I think most Z490 based motherboards have announced intention via a bios update to support future rocket lake processors and perhaps pcie 4.0 as well.
Do some research to see what ASUS intends for your motherboard.
 
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Intel's current 10th gen CPUs do not support PCI-e 4.0, so you will have to live with 'only' about 3500 MB/sec sequential reads/writes. (The real world differences in system boot/shutdown times/file copies, transfers, etc., are much less extreme than the 'twice as fast' sounding spec would imply.) SUmmary: CrystalDiskMark shows great numbers, real world differences show a second or two knocked off here and there...