Hello Everyone, Merry Christmas to all firstly, and I hope everyone has a happy, safe and wonderful holiday season! Ok, I’m very shortly (next hour or so) about to buy a Christmas present. https://www.umart.com.au/product/gigabyte-512gb-aorus-m-2-nvme-ssd-gp-asm2ne2512gttdr-59558 Question - Is this the best value for money with gaming being the focus upgrade I can buy from a SATA HDD (not even an SSD). Current System Mobo - MSI Pro Carbon H270 (https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/H270-GAMING-PRO-CARBON/Specification) CPU - Intel i5 6500 RAM - 16GB Dual Channel PSU - Thermaltake Toughpower 750W GPU - Nvidia 1660 Monitor - 24” 1920x1080 144hz Only looking to upgrade the hard drive and looking for the best gaming bang for buck SSD / NVMe hard drive I can buy on a budget of $150 AUD / $110 USD. Purchasing from - www.umart.com.au Silly me for leaving it so close / late and any guidance / advice would be greatly appreciated thank you !!! P.S - I believe the motherboard can only handle up to PCI-E 3.0 NVMe not PCI-E 4.0 NVMe EDIT - Preferably looking for 500GB minimum / 1TB maximum as Call Of Duty Modern Warfare is game of choice and chews about 200GB on its own ♂️
Correct, your motherboard only supports pci-e 3.0 nvme. Yes that is a good nvme drive, I'm actually surprised by it's price on umart to be honest, on pccasegear it's $129.... Guess I'll have to look at umart in the future myself. If you wanted a little more space something like the Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSD 1TB [MZ-V7S1T0BW] would also be good, tiny tiny bit slower speeds.. but larger drive.
holy smokes no way don't get that https://www.umart.com.au/product/western-digital-black-500gb-m-2-sn750-nvme-ssd-wds500g3x0c-52509 sn750 is better,even though it's pcie3.0 so it would lose in sequential benchmarks.you don't have pcie4 anyway. i'd take sn750 over the gb aorus even if I had 4.0,and it's cheaper. if you can go up to 140,get this one though https://www.umart.com.au/product/kingston-1tb-kc2500-m-2-nvme-ssd-56373 double the capacity and it's a great drive https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/9467/kingston-kc2500-1tb-nvme-2-ssd/index.html
they are but this one is worse than sn750 and you're paying extra for the illuminated chicken it's good,but sn750 was the best in class at the point they were released and it's cheaper kc2500 is better than both
This model got other chips without any change of model number. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...swapping-components-in-its-970-evo-plus-ssds/ I was about to buy one for me as well as those went down to 170 euros for the 2tb model, but nope.
I just read about it a month ago by pure coincidence / luck ... (I had to dig through my history to find the link ...)
Theres not much to gain from 16gb to 32gb unless you frequently use a game or prog that needs it, and that the performance it 'may' bring isnt bottlenecked by anything else in your system.
Not at these prices. You'll have almost double of what you usually pay for a certain combo. Most CPUs with ddr5 support start at 300+ Euros, a good board is 200 to 250 minimum, good ddr5 RAM is about 300+ ("standard" kits for about 150). I am used to pay something between 500 and 700 for CPU + board + RAM + cooler ("adapter kit" from Noctua). If I would get a ddr5 platform now, I would have to pay about 1000 to 1300 (AMD or Intel). That would last 5 years at least (estimation). So no, from my perspective it isn't worth it right now. That's the reason I still stay at Ryzen 1st gen (1700, gets 5 years old next march).