Samsung 960 EVO SSD with MSI B250 PRO-VD

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I want to buy a SSD,but I do not know,if the Samsung 960 EVO will be good in my MSI B250 PRO-VD MB.I looked up the specs for both of it and I do not understand a few things about their compatibility. Should I buy the Samsung 960 EVO and evrything will be fine or should I just go for the Samsung 850 EVO Basic?

Specs:
CPU:Intel i5-7500,
MB:MSI B250 PRO-VD
Ram:16 GB Corsair Vengance LPX 2400 mhz
GPU: GIgabyte GTX 1060 6GB
HDD:Toshiba 1tb 7200 rpm
PSU:Chieftec 600W

 
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The SSD should be fine with your motherboard. The 960 is an NVMe SSD, and it should work with the M.2 slot on the motherboard. The 960 will be quite a bit faster than the 850 EVO; IMO it is worth your money.

There is another issue with your build, though. The PSU (Chieftec 600W) is a known low-quality PSU. Using low-quality PSUs will not only put your PC in risk of sudden overvolting, but you will also need to replace the PSU after only a year or two. I highly suggest that you buy a PSU from a trusted company (such as EVGA, Corsair, Seasonic, be quiet!, Cooler Master).
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The SSD should be fine with your motherboard. The 960 is an NVMe SSD, and it should work with the M.2 slot on the motherboard. The 960 will be quite a bit faster than the 850 EVO; IMO it is worth your money.

There is another issue with your build, though. The PSU (Chieftec 600W) is a known low-quality PSU. Using low-quality PSUs will not only put your PC in risk of sudden overvolting, but you will also need to replace the PSU after only a year or two. I highly suggest that you buy a PSU from a trusted company (such as EVGA, Corsair, Seasonic, be quiet!, Cooler Master).
 
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That motherboard will support a 960 evo no problem, it has an M.2 slot and enough pcie lanes for the 960 evo to run at full performance. The better question is do you need a 960 evo? It wont perform much better than say an 850 evo in day to day tasks, load times in games wont be much better than they would be on the 850 evo. Your money is better spent elsewhere like on a halfway decent power supply, cheiftec does not have the best reputation.
 
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Thanks for the answer.

Yeah,I realised the PSU was a bad decision after I bougth it,but that time it got fine review on the webshop where i was shopping and it was cheap and I was on budget (and i was young and naive), I want to replace it soon,but ohh god there is so much thing I rather want to buy first (SSD,Phone,Games etc.).It is only one month old I hope it will be fine for oneother three months.
 
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