Seen a few posts about these drives and the comparisons I've seen online show that SN770 is definitely the faster drive, however, I keep seeing gaming benchmarks and not everyone is a gamer.
I will use it for games... Fortnite mostly. I'm not a gamer but I do play once in a while and right now my 250GB SSD is too small to hold more than 1 game so looking at a 500GB. That said, for now I have an older Asus H97-Plus that will work with an NVMe drive. Maybe not full speed but I need the drive now and plan to upgrade end of summer.
Plan is to use this as my C:\ on Win10x64, it will be the boot drive and have all software and games installed. I have a 2TB HDD as a D:\ where Docs, Images, Music, etc is mapped.
So... thinking ahead, on my new Z790 board with an i5-13600k CPU... do I need to be concerned with the lack of dram on the SN770? also, I read it has some sorta game-mode? does that need to be on all the time to get the performance? does it turn on just for games? does it even really make a difference?
In Canada the 500GB SN770 is about $55CAD... the Samsung 980 Evo Plus is another $30 ($85CAD). The regular Samsung 980 is about $55CAD as well.
Also... heatsink. I don't overclock anything... mobo may/not have a heatsink for the M.2 slot, depends on the model. Does the Sn770 need a sink?
I will use it for games... Fortnite mostly. I'm not a gamer but I do play once in a while and right now my 250GB SSD is too small to hold more than 1 game so looking at a 500GB. That said, for now I have an older Asus H97-Plus that will work with an NVMe drive. Maybe not full speed but I need the drive now and plan to upgrade end of summer.
Plan is to use this as my C:\ on Win10x64, it will be the boot drive and have all software and games installed. I have a 2TB HDD as a D:\ where Docs, Images, Music, etc is mapped.
So... thinking ahead, on my new Z790 board with an i5-13600k CPU... do I need to be concerned with the lack of dram on the SN770? also, I read it has some sorta game-mode? does that need to be on all the time to get the performance? does it turn on just for games? does it even really make a difference?
In Canada the 500GB SN770 is about $55CAD... the Samsung 980 Evo Plus is another $30 ($85CAD). The regular Samsung 980 is about $55CAD as well.
Also... heatsink. I don't overclock anything... mobo may/not have a heatsink for the M.2 slot, depends on the model. Does the Sn770 need a sink?