Hi guys from Ontario Canada. My first post here. I've been a fan of Tom's Hardware from it's beginning when they were the best of only a few such sites on line so keep up the good work!
I'm building my fist PC in my retirement years and looking forward to a successful result.
I have a NVMe question.
I've purchased an Intel i7-8700K CPU, Asus Prime Z370-A MB, Gforce GTX 1660Ti and two Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe 1TB drives as part of this system. I hope I'll be able to get max performance (3BG/s +/-) out of these two SSD drives? My main concern is performance and not setting this up in such a way that I've wasted money on my second NVM3 drive purchase without getting the most bang for the bucks. For what it's worth I have not yet opened the box on my second ssd.
Based on some research of my own, I understand I may have to give up 1 or more SATA ports but I'm fine with that. This MB has 6. I'm only going to use external HDD's for storage and hope to run these two SSD's in this new system.
Is this going to work as anticipated or did I already screw up?
I'm building my fist PC in my retirement years and looking forward to a successful result.
I have a NVMe question.
I've purchased an Intel i7-8700K CPU, Asus Prime Z370-A MB, Gforce GTX 1660Ti and two Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe 1TB drives as part of this system. I hope I'll be able to get max performance (3BG/s +/-) out of these two SSD drives? My main concern is performance and not setting this up in such a way that I've wasted money on my second NVM3 drive purchase without getting the most bang for the bucks. For what it's worth I have not yet opened the box on my second ssd.
Based on some research of my own, I understand I may have to give up 1 or more SATA ports but I'm fine with that. This MB has 6. I'm only going to use external HDD's for storage and hope to run these two SSD's in this new system.
Is this going to work as anticipated or did I already screw up?
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