NVME or SSD for new build which would be best ,

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Hi everyone

Looking at a new build shortly some components from my exiting build and a lot of new ones, proposed build is
Ryzen 5 1600X
Corsair H60 cooler
Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K3
Crucial Ballistix 8GB PC2400
GTX 1070Ti (MSI Zotac or Palit depends which is on offer at time of purchase)
Toshiba P300 2TB

and using from my existing PSU, 1TB HDD and a SANDISK 240GB ULTRA 2 SSD

Looking at possibly getting a 250GB Samsung 960 EVO for use as a boot drive and some other storage. with the SSD and two spinners as additional storage for games, photos back up etc.

My question is is the cost of the NVME going to make a huge difference in system performance, and I've heard of problems getting the NVME to be the boot drive.

my current system with the SSD on a SATA 2 boots in approx 10 seconds to log on screen and another 5 sconds or so when i log in.

or should I go for more memory

Hope this question thread makes sense,
 
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Ill be honest,Id just have gone for the ryzen 1600 & used the stock cooler because its quiet anyway,however if you have no intention of overclocking the 1600x does offer 5-10% improvement at stock.
Id go 2x8gb 2666mhz ram minimum - its a speed that will run off the bat on most boards now with no messing about.
Personally on a red/black basis Id go with the asrock b350 fatality k4.

If you already have the carbide 100r it limits tower coolers fairly badly on height.
The cryorig h7 will fit though ,is quieter than the h60 & performs about the same.

You've made the common mistake of assuming AIO's are quieter than air coolers when they are not.


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it should be very straight forward for you with the board you are getting. just take off the heatsink. screw in the nvme. put back the heatsink. boot with ur installer. it sees the drive. format. install. restarts. boots to the nvme.

as for performance. even with the samsung nvme driver plus the bandwidth of a pcie and sata combined, it is still bottlenecked by the same AHCI interface ssd uses. so you should normally get a 10sec loading time from cold boot same as your current ssd. if more than that, its just your BIOS post time taking longer. most boards have fast boot enabled by default. so tweak on your BIOS boot time if you wanna lessen the boot time. nvme is just future proof once the technology is available in newer boards. besides theres not much price difference of a nvme and a ssd of the same storage size. and u save more space.

nvme tech was supposed to be an improvement for server rooms implementing virtualization/cloud tech tho. youll see the obvious advantage of nvme there. but i guess they wanna share some of that new tech to the consumers as well. :D even if there isnt much of a difference in every use performance. random read i/o yes it is so vastly differnt from SSD but loading time and transfer speeds to other drives, same.


 
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I was going down liquid cooling for noise, if not what air cooler would you recommend, not to bothered about overclocking more to do with noise

Forgot to mention new case is a corsair carbide 100R
 
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So at the moment there is no real advantage in the NVME vs SATA 3 SSD at the moment. might look at another SSD HD or even go to a B350 Mobo and spend money on memory maybe even higher speed memory
 
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Ill be honest,Id just have gone for the ryzen 1600 & used the stock cooler because its quiet anyway,however if you have no intention of overclocking the 1600x does offer 5-10% improvement at stock.
Id go 2x8gb 2666mhz ram minimum - its a speed that will run off the bat on most boards now with no messing about.
Personally on a red/black basis Id go with the asrock b350 fatality k4.

If you already have the carbide 100r it limits tower coolers fairly badly on height.
The cryorig h7 will fit though ,is quieter than the h60 & performs about the same.

You've made the common mistake of assuming AIO's are quieter than air coolers when they are not.


 
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