AMD 5900x
Asus x570 Prime
32gb 3200mhz
Gigabyte 6700xt
Seasonic 850watt Prime
M2 slot 1 - Samsung 970 evo 500gb boot drive
M2 slot 2 - Adata XPG S70 Blade 2tb primary game storage
Expansion 4x card for NVMe drive - Samsung 970 evo plus 2tb (This add on is when the issues started and I tried 2 adapter cards with this NVMe drive)
4tb Toshiba N300 HDD secondary game storage / image back ups
1tb WD Black HDD junk drive
I am getting weird performance issues when I install a 3rd NVMe drive but in a adapter PCIe card on my 2nd 16x slot. The drive runs near full speed around 3200/3200. But then I load up a DX11 game like BF4 which runs at 142 constant most of the time with my cap I have running. Well it starts running around 100fps and my normal GPU power of 150-190 watts that I monitor with Afterburner on my 2nd screen only runs around 60watts and GPU clocks aren't boosting as high. Weird part is normally in game when you stare at the floor or sky your FPS goes up. Super weird when i do that my fps drops to 90,80ish and then settles at a constant 75fps. I have tried two different adapter cards with this Samsung 970evo plus 2tb and it starts this hit or miss issue where I end up pulling the drive and sometimes the issues stays after I pull it. I just reloaded the GPU driver and so far it's hanging in there running properly but the issue will return when I try to run this 3rd NVMe drive. I have a Samsung 970 500gb as boot on M2 #1 and a 2tb Adata S70 Blade on M2 #2. I just snagged this brand new 970evo plus 2tb for $120 so I wanted to use it on my main rig. So far my system is acting up. I also hear the sound of a new device getting plugged in on boot up but never see anything in device manager. I also get a Windows alert "Your hardware settings have changed. Please reboot your computer for these changes to take effect." during this issue. This only started after trying to use this new Samsung drive.
I wonder if this is a bifurcation issue with too many NVMe drives. I like my 500gb boot and 2tb game drive layout so please no advice about dropping the 500gb boot drive. Hoping to run all 3 drives if possible. My slot speeds are all proper at 16x to GPU (what shows in GPUZ) and Gen3 / 4x to the Samsung 970evo plus(shows in Samsung software)
Asus x570 Prime
32gb 3200mhz
Gigabyte 6700xt
Seasonic 850watt Prime
M2 slot 1 - Samsung 970 evo 500gb boot drive
M2 slot 2 - Adata XPG S70 Blade 2tb primary game storage
Expansion 4x card for NVMe drive - Samsung 970 evo plus 2tb (This add on is when the issues started and I tried 2 adapter cards with this NVMe drive)
4tb Toshiba N300 HDD secondary game storage / image back ups
1tb WD Black HDD junk drive
I am getting weird performance issues when I install a 3rd NVMe drive but in a adapter PCIe card on my 2nd 16x slot. The drive runs near full speed around 3200/3200. But then I load up a DX11 game like BF4 which runs at 142 constant most of the time with my cap I have running. Well it starts running around 100fps and my normal GPU power of 150-190 watts that I monitor with Afterburner on my 2nd screen only runs around 60watts and GPU clocks aren't boosting as high. Weird part is normally in game when you stare at the floor or sky your FPS goes up. Super weird when i do that my fps drops to 90,80ish and then settles at a constant 75fps. I have tried two different adapter cards with this Samsung 970evo plus 2tb and it starts this hit or miss issue where I end up pulling the drive and sometimes the issues stays after I pull it. I just reloaded the GPU driver and so far it's hanging in there running properly but the issue will return when I try to run this 3rd NVMe drive. I have a Samsung 970 500gb as boot on M2 #1 and a 2tb Adata S70 Blade on M2 #2. I just snagged this brand new 970evo plus 2tb for $120 so I wanted to use it on my main rig. So far my system is acting up. I also hear the sound of a new device getting plugged in on boot up but never see anything in device manager. I also get a Windows alert "Your hardware settings have changed. Please reboot your computer for these changes to take effect." during this issue. This only started after trying to use this new Samsung drive.
I wonder if this is a bifurcation issue with too many NVMe drives. I like my 500gb boot and 2tb game drive layout so please no advice about dropping the 500gb boot drive. Hoping to run all 3 drives if possible. My slot speeds are all proper at 16x to GPU (what shows in GPUZ) and Gen3 / 4x to the Samsung 970evo plus(shows in Samsung software)
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