My rig is a 3570K @ 4.8 gig with a 1070ti and an 860EVO on a MATX size motherboard. My gaming requirements are only 60fps @ 1080p, so im expecting to still get a few more years out of this box. But one area where i severely lack is storage bandwidth. As newer games start to assume that they can stream in data at gigabytes a second my paltry SATA3 connection might become a bottleneck.
I have no free PCI-E slots , so cant use a PCI to M2 adaptor storage solution. Ideas i have had...
1. Add a second 860EVO and run them in RAID. Should double my speeds to around 900 MB/S if it works. Is intel motherboard raid able to use 2 x 860EVO's ? - or would the Samsung management software (Samsung Magician) freak out ?
2. The SSD management software has a ramdisk to fake silly high speeds in benchmark. If i put another 16 gig of ram in the PC for a total of 32, would Samsung Magician be able to cache enough data to meaningfully increase storage speed? Not so fussed about slow game start times, more interested in an already loaded game being able to access streaming data quickly.
Any comments on these ideas, or other suggestions on how i can improve my storage bandwidth on an Ivy Bridge era box?
I have no free PCI-E slots , so cant use a PCI to M2 adaptor storage solution. Ideas i have had...
1. Add a second 860EVO and run them in RAID. Should double my speeds to around 900 MB/S if it works. Is intel motherboard raid able to use 2 x 860EVO's ? - or would the Samsung management software (Samsung Magician) freak out ?
2. The SSD management software has a ramdisk to fake silly high speeds in benchmark. If i put another 16 gig of ram in the PC for a total of 32, would Samsung Magician be able to cache enough data to meaningfully increase storage speed? Not so fussed about slow game start times, more interested in an already loaded game being able to access streaming data quickly.
Any comments on these ideas, or other suggestions on how i can improve my storage bandwidth on an Ivy Bridge era box?