Guru3D Rig of the Month - May 2020
Lamptron HM101 review
Lexar SL100 Pro Portable SSD 500 GB review
ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero review
Intel Core i9-10900K processor review
Intel Core i5-10600K processor review
ASRock Z490 Taichi review
ASUS ROG Maximus XII Extreme review
MSI MEG Z490 ACE review
Z490 Aorus Master review
Review: Samsung 960 PRO 1TB NVMe SSD
In this review we test the new M.2 and extremely fast Samsung 960 PRO Series M.2 SSDs with all new Polaris based controller. These new M.2 units can now be purchased in volume sizes up-to 2TB and use the nvm express (NVME) 1.2 protocol which is even faster anno 2016. Storage technology is advancing with hyper fast paces while remaining competitive in pricing. Does Samsung have yet another NAND success at hand?
Read the full review right here.
Review: Battlefield 1 DirectX 11 and 12 PC graphics performance - 10/18/2016 05:28 PM
We will look at Battlefield 1 PC in our geeky gamer way, both DirectX 11 and 12 are adressed. We'll test the game on the PC platform relative towards graphics card performance with the latest AMD/NVI...
Review: G.Skill TridentZ 3200 MHz 32GB Quad Channel DDR4 - 10/13/2016 09:36 AM
We peek at a very nice 32GB DRAM kit, the TridentZ 3200 MHz CAS14 DDR4 memory from G.Skill. It's fast, it's cool and runs XMP 2.0 memory profiles on Intel platforms as well. Join us as we review som...
Review: Gears of War 4 DirectX12 PC graphics performance - 10/11/2016 09:21 AM
Today Gears of War 4 is released in it's DirectX 12 flavor. We look at the game for the Windows PC platform. We'll test the game on the PC platform relative towards graphics card performance with th...
Review: Mafia III - VGA PC graphics performance benchmarks - 10/09/2016 11:37 AM
With the new 1.01 Patch in effect we are free from 30 FPS caps, yes it is time to look at Mafia III, the Guru3D way. Multiple graphics cards are being tested and bench-marked with the latest cards suc...
Review: In-Win 303 PC Chassis - 10/07/2016 07:47 AM
In-Win recently released the 303 PC Chassis which we review. it is a product series that is designed with that more compact form factor in mind, yet with nice aesthetics and yes, it has been fitted wi...
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#5347798 Posted on: 10/19/2016 08:56 AM
Ah indeed! Fixed thanks.
Ah indeed! Fixed thanks.
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#5347799 Posted on: 10/19/2016 08:57 AM
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 2TB - MZ-V6P2T0BW costs 329 USD (63 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 1TB - MZ-V6P1T0BW costs 629 USD (61 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB - MZ-V6P512BW costs 1299 USD (64 cents per GB)
I think you've got the sizes/models mismatched with the prices there, chief! 8D
Or Samsung burning to rip people off at the wrong end... AGAIN!
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 2TB - MZ-V6P2T0BW costs 329 USD (63 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 1TB - MZ-V6P1T0BW costs 629 USD (61 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB - MZ-V6P512BW costs 1299 USD (64 cents per GB)
I think you've got the sizes/models mismatched with the prices there, chief! 8D
Or Samsung burning to rip people off at the wrong end... AGAIN!
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#5347850 Posted on: 10/19/2016 11:33 AM
Interesting thermal image and info, wonder if sticking some heat-sink type device on the controller might help along with some paste or pad for it, I don't really have any knowledge about cooling a SSD though but I assume it's similar to RAM cooling in principle?
(IE heat sink or fan to get the heat / hot air off the memory chips and in this case also the controller chip.)
~70 degrees seems pretty hot to me after all so there's probably some room for improvement though how that's best done I wouldn't know.
(SSD water cooling? Overkill??)
(Five core controller chip though so that probably explains some of the heat, five cores seem a bit odd but I assume there's a reason for that too.)
Interesting thermal image and info, wonder if sticking some heat-sink type device on the controller might help along with some paste or pad for it, I don't really have any knowledge about cooling a SSD though but I assume it's similar to RAM cooling in principle?
(IE heat sink or fan to get the heat / hot air off the memory chips and in this case also the controller chip.)
~70 degrees seems pretty hot to me after all so there's probably some room for improvement though how that's best done I wouldn't know.
(SSD water cooling? Overkill??)
(Five core controller chip though so that probably explains some of the heat, five cores seem a bit odd but I assume there's a reason for that too.)
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#5347851 Posted on: 10/19/2016 11:41 AM
Thing is, for us, casual users, all these make no sense. Yeah I do have nvme drive with 2.5g/s speed, I do have another with 500, and they are all the same in real world usage. Unless you are doing some big data crunching (sequential, mind you) like movie processing, all you care is 4k random read performance. Which in this drive is 38mb/s, pretty much the same on all current ssds on the market, give or take few mbs. Yeah, massive amount of parallel flash drives, fast controller, huge cache, predictions, etc, all great in benchmarks indeed, but when you load the game/program it tries to randomly read small bits of data here and there and the greatest, expensive ssd comes down to the cheapest one out there. Unless we get a completely different technology - non-volatile ram, the ssds won't benefit us more even if they can read/write terabytes per second.
Thing is, for us, casual users, all these make no sense. Yeah I do have nvme drive with 2.5g/s speed, I do have another with 500, and they are all the same in real world usage. Unless you are doing some big data crunching (sequential, mind you) like movie processing, all you care is 4k random read performance. Which in this drive is 38mb/s, pretty much the same on all current ssds on the market, give or take few mbs. Yeah, massive amount of parallel flash drives, fast controller, huge cache, predictions, etc, all great in benchmarks indeed, but when you load the game/program it tries to randomly read small bits of data here and there and the greatest, expensive ssd comes down to the cheapest one out there. Unless we get a completely different technology - non-volatile ram, the ssds won't benefit us more even if they can read/write terabytes per second.
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Samsung SSD 960 PRO 2TB - MZ-V6P2T0BW costs 329 USD (63 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 1TB - MZ-V6P1T0BW costs 629 USD (61 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB - MZ-V6P512BW costs 1299 USD (64 cents per GB)
I think you've got the sizes/models mismatched with the prices there, chief! 8D