GIGABYTE X99 - Z97 and H97 Motherboards Ready for Intel SSD 750 Series

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/02/2015 09:05 AM | source: | 4 comment(s)

Gigabyte motherboards build around the Intel X99 and 9 Series chipsets are compatible with the 750 Series PCIe SSD drive from Intel. These new drives will be available in 400GB and 1.2TB capacities and are expected to deliver performance of up to 2.5/1.2 GB/s sequential read/write speeds and up to 440/290k random IOPs.

GIGABYTE's X99 and 9 Series motherboards are able to take full advantage of the fast transfer speeds of this exciting new storage solution from Intel.

Built for enthusiast gamers and workstations, the new 750 Series SSDs are the first consumer oriented PCIe drives by Intel. Using PCIe Gen3 x 4 lanes with the latest and fastest NVMe controller interface, Intel's storage solution features a level of performance never achieved by regular SSDs, which are limited by their SATA connection and old AHCI protocol. Compared to the SATA 3 interface which can technically reach up to 6Gb/s, the PCIe Gen 3 interface is considerably faster as it provides up to 8Gb/s per lane, thereby allowing 32Gb/s of total available bandwidth for the x4 PCIe SSDs.

In real life operation, this means the 750 Series PCIe SSDs are ideal for solving bandwidth critical applications, users' operating systems and everyday files that need to be quickly accessed. This unprecedented response time also means faster loading of games and a better overall gaming experience. When compared to SATA SSDs in a video creation scenario, the 750 Series SSD from Intel are able to achieve a smooth 24 FPS while editing two 4K videos side by side in Adobe Speedgrade CS6, truly bringing the power of the platform to the user.

Current GIGABYTE X99 motherboards are already compatible with the new Intel 750 Series PCIe SSDs. For GIGABYTE 9 Series motherboards, updates are already available for download on the official GIGABYTE website. Motherboards can also be updated by using the @bios utility available in the App Center.

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nizzen
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#5042687 Posted on: 04/02/2015 01:26 PM

Asus RIV black x79/ asrock z97 ocf/asus RVE x99 and Asrock WS-10G x99 works here with Intel P3700 NVMe pci-e 3.0. So there is no need for NVMe support for the motherbords and pci-e NVMe devices.

You have to use windows 8.1 for booting P3xxx series as of now.

Maybe it is different with m.2 ssd's?

Looks like intel 750 NVME pci-e is almost the same as P3700/P3600/P3500, just different nand?

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#5042694 Posted on: 04/02/2015 01:46 PM

Looks like intel 750 NVME pci-e is almost the same as P3700/P3600/P3600, just different nand?

It is the p3500 actually. I would prefer though a 480-512gb drive. There's no need for so much overprovision in consumer drivers, although the performance would be a bit lower

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#5042697 Posted on: 04/02/2015 01:49 PM

It is the p3500 actually. I would prefer though a 480-512gb drive. There's no need for so much overprovision in consumer drivers, although the performance would be a bit lower

Link that it IS P3500?

Price for P3500 here in Norway in NOK:

http://www.prisjakt.no/product.php?p=2911770

Price for 750

http://www.prisjakt.no/product.php?p=3053918

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#5042837 Posted on: 04/02/2015 05:12 PM

It's nice to see such so fast speeds for disks, next thing I wish is sys mem to be skyrocketing like gddr5 ones and ofc different sys mem speeds per channel..oh, all these at reasonable prices and not having to give a kidney ...too much that I wish for....?

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