Best SSD for an MSI Z170A Krait Gaming 3X Motherboard

[Potatobro1]

Like the title suggests, I'm looking for the best solid state drive that will work with the MSI Z170A Krait Gaming 3X Motherboard. Under $200 is preferable, and speed is more important than capacity. I currently have a Crucial BX200 and it just isn't cutting it: any help would be appreciated.

 

[photonboy]

That SSD is still fairly fast, so I'm wondering what exactly your ISSUE is that you expect a faster SSD to address. It's 540MB/490MB/s sequential read/write.

I have actually TESTED different SSD's specifically to see what is noticeable and what is not. Even a crappy SATA1 with 150/130 read/write holds up most of the time. Slightly slower boot by a couple seconds compared to Samsung 840 Pro, but game loads are pretty close, and a lot of the time programs and data run out of the system memory (i.e. DDR3).

I suggest explaining what your problem is, but it's likely that the solution is:

a) more system memory, or
b) better CPU, or
c) better GPU

I can recommend something like a SAMSUNG 850 EVO
250GB http://pcpartpicker.com/product/3kL7YJ/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz75e250bam
500GB http://pcpartpicker.com/product/FrH48d/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz75e500bam

(and install Samsung Magician to test and set it up.)

*M.2 SSD
THIS is an excellent drive-> http://pcpartpicker.com/product/FdDzK8/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mzv5p256bw

"Up to 2,500MB/s sequential read and 1,500MB/s write"

I don't know if it will fix your problem since it wasn't explained.

 

[Potatobro1]

That SSD is still fairly fast, so I'm wondering what exactly your ISSUE is that you expect a faster SSD to address. It's 540MB/490MB/s sequential read/write.

I suggest explaining what your problem is, but it's likely that the solution is:

a) more system memory, or
b) better CPU, or
c) better GPU

I can recommend something like a SAMSUNG 850 EVO
250GB http://pcpartpicker.com/product/3kL7YJ/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz75e250bam
500GB http://pcpartpicker.com/product/FrH48d/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz75e500bam

(and install Samsung Magician to test and set it up.)

My biggest issue with it is that the speeds aren't consistent at all.
I have 16GB of DDR4-3000mhz RAM, an i7-6700k, and a GTX 970 so I don't think it's an issue with other hardware unless something is very, very wrong.

Are the 950 Pro m.2 SSDs worth the price tag?

 

[photonboy]

Hey,
I just added the Samsung 950 Pro and the specs for that above.

I can't judge if it is worth it or not but it will help a bit any time you heavily access the SSD such as bootup.

*You still have not explained your problem. You say "speeds aren't consistent at all" but I don't know what you mean by that.

If it's about GAMING and your FPS, then the SSD has nothing at all to do with that, the drive is only used when a game or later loads are happening; otherwise the CPU is reading from your DDR4 memory. Fluctuations in frame rate are normal, so please be SPECIFIC as to the problem.

 

[Potatobro1]

Hey,
I just added the Samsung 950 Pro and the specs for that above.

I can't judge if it is worth it or not but it will help a bit any time you heavily access the SSD such as bootup.

*You still have not explained your problem. You say "speeds aren't consistent at all" but I don't know what you mean by that.

If it's about GAMING and your FPS, then the SSD has nothing at all to do with that. Fluctuations in frame rate are normal, so please be SPECIFIC as to the problem.

 

[Potatobro1]

Hey,
I just added the Samsung 950 Pro and the specs for that above.

I can't judge if it is worth it or not but it will help a bit any time you heavily access the SSD such as bootup.

*You still have not explained your problem. You say "speeds aren't consistent at all" but I don't know what you mean by that.

If it's about GAMING and your FPS, then the SSD has nothing at all to do with that, the drive is only used when a game or later loads are happening; otherwise the CPU is reading from your DDR4 memory. Fluctuations in frame rate are normal, so please be SPECIFIC as to the problem.

Sorry about that: by inconsistent speeds I meant the read speeds often drop so low to the point where my hard drive would be faster.

 

[jossrik]

I have the Samsung 950 Pro 256Gb and it's pretty quick in everything so far. To be fair though I pretty well only use it as a boot drive, I'm not copying to and from it a lot with other SSDs in my system, so can't say how fast/don't have anything that will do 1300Mbs read to write to it that fast.