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Interesting. I asked Elmor from Asus and told me he would have to investigate, which suggests it shouldn't be performing as badly as it is. Admittedly I am new to the M2 SSD world though so I'm sure I have a lot to learn as well. I did find these two reviews - I didn't see anywhere that said...

Ah ok maybe that makes a difference - both are X299 though so shouldn't be too much different. Is there another way to run them other than through the PCH on X299? Regardless I would think on a higher end MOBO, the speeds of modern M2 drives shouldn't be bottlenecked.

These are NOT my results - My results are all around 2/3 of these numbers and in some cases 1/2. The below is what I should be getting but I'm way less on both identical tests. The biggest differences are in Seq Q32T1 and Seq where I am a full 1000MB/s slower.

I was looking at this one - is that not the correct one? https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/10/Review-chart-template-final-full-width-3.001-1.png I guess regardless, tons of people are getting the full advertised maximum speeds, so we should be too. On that test I get...

Their sequential read is 800MB/s higher and write speeds are 200 MB/s higher. Your benchmark (and mine) is a lot slower than what they got in that review. I just want the performance I paid for - right now I am not getting that. If I am not going to get it, I might as well return it for an...

Yours looks similar to mine - stuck around 2/3 speed. User benchmarks should show maximum performance or very close to it, lots of people have posted samples. Not sure whats going on with these boards, I can't figure it out.

I have an 960 PRO 512GB In an ASUS TUF MK1, it will not go over 2/3 speed either in Samsung Magician benchmark or CrystalDisk. I hope it's just a BIOS thing, I really don't want to RMA my mobo and/or 960 Pro. And yes I am using Samsuing NVME drivers, not the Windows ones (but they had...

Just got my system, running 7820X and Asus TUF MK1. I'm having problems with my Samsung 960 pro though, hopefully someone can help. I cannot get it anywhere near it's advertised speeds. Best I can do is about 2300 MB Read/ 1700 MB write. I changed the Mircosoft NVME driver to the Samsung one...

I picked this up last night, should have it tonight or tomorrow! Pretty pumped. https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/t2CVzM

Has anyone tried a 7820X with a Noctua NH-D15 yet? I would OC to 4.5-4.6. I REALLY don't want water cooling if I don't absolutely have to and the last thing I want to do is buy new AIO's every few years 'just in case'. Every review I've ever seen has it hanging with all the 240mm AIO's but...

I'm not fudging any numbers, nor did I intend to say anything misleading. The plan was always to OC a 1700, I would not buy an 1800X. For max OC on a 1700, I wanted a quality board with beefy VRM. I use a ton of SATA ports, USB 3.0/3.1, etc. On top of that I keep my PC's for 6ish years, so I...

I see what you're saying, but I am comparing what the premium would be *for me* because that's the only thing I care about price-wise, so it was CH6 vs the X299 selection. If you wanted to compare entry level to entry level, the gap would be larger in favor of Ryzen, no doubt, but I was not...

I don't know what to tell you, you ignored where I said "with the feature set I wanted" and "for my usage". I did a ton of research and was going to buy the CH6, that is a fact. Therefore I compare with other $350 boards on the X299 side. If a cheaper or different board works for you...

You have to compare similar Mobo's. The CH6 is the go-to mobo in the Ryzen world, and the one I was going to buy with the feature set I wanted, and the one most likely to best support the next 2 generations of AM4 CPUs. That is $350 here in Canada. You can also buy nicely featured X299 boards...

A base SL-X clocks higher than a maxed out 1700 or 1800X though, so you are still getting a faster CPU, so even if you don't OC to the max, but do something reasonable like 4.5-4.6Ghz (hence my plan), you are still getting significantly better performance comparing a stock or OC'd 7820x to a...