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Entertainment & Technology / Re: It's Spec-Me-Up time!
« Last post by Eagle on May 14, 2023, 02:55:04 AM »
Fiiiiiinal question here:

My mobo manual says it supports DDR4 RAM up to 2133Mhz.  Is that it?  DDR4 is available at much higher speeds is it not?  Maybe that's all that was available at the time?...

Any clue as to what I could go for now?  Just looking to boost this rig a bit before the build in Dec.

:)
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Entertainment & Technology / Re: SATA Speeds
« Last post by Eagle on May 12, 2023, 22:35:46 PM »
...and finally: is chaining a CD Drive and two SSDs on one power cable ok? I guess it is otherwise Corsair wouldn't supply 'em.
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Entertainment & Technology / Re: SATA Speeds
« Last post by Eagle on May 12, 2023, 19:15:39 PM »
...ah wait, hang on.  SATA Express is just 2x SATA 3 connectors plus a 'weirdo' socket.  So I'm guessing the drives will be just as fast in either SATA3 or the Express ports...
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Entertainment & Technology / SATA Speeds
« Last post by Eagle on May 12, 2023, 18:46:00 PM »
Does it matter (speed-wise) whether I connect my SSDs to SATA 3 or SATA Express ports?

I've searched and I can't find a definitive answer.  Apparently, they are supposed to have different plugs but both my SATA 3 and SATAe ports are the same connectors (I have SSDs connected to both types, currently but am I throttling them in the SATA3 ports?). 
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Entertainment & Technology / Re: It's Spec-Me-Up time!
« Last post by Eagle on May 11, 2023, 11:02:04 AM »
Haha, I bottled it and bought a Samsung 2Tb SSD!  ;D 
Known quanity and I wasn't at all confident the M.2 would fit given the other addons and CPU cooler mount I have in there.
Ah well.  Let's see what happens in December!
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Entertainment & Technology / Re: It's Spec-Me-Up time!
« Last post by Clock'd 0Ne on May 11, 2023, 09:52:48 AM »
The Samsung is the business and it already has heatspreaders :ptu:
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Entertainment & Technology / Re: It's Spec-Me-Up time!
« Last post by Eagle on May 10, 2023, 22:04:13 PM »
...and do they need heatsinks?
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Entertainment & Technology / Re: It's Spec-Me-Up time!
« Last post by Eagle on May 10, 2023, 20:33:05 PM »
Many thanks - so is the one I linked to okay?

I know it's way more expensive but I have trust issues with WD not to mention my OCD (all my other drives are Samsung EVOs!  :thumbup:
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Entertainment & Technology / Re: It's Spec-Me-Up time!
« Last post by Clock'd 0Ne on May 10, 2023, 20:27:02 PM »
M.2 is the form factor, basically the type of connector. NVMe is like a protocol, more akin to SATA, your board - from what I could see from the specs after checking - it does in fact supports NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2
You want something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09JM8DJNS?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=pepperugc03-21&ascsubtag=2515421466

Other vendors, products, etc are available of course, that was the first Google result
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Entertainment & Technology / Re: It's Spec-Me-Up time!
« Last post by Eagle on May 10, 2023, 18:31:23 PM »
Sorry for all the questions but I trust no one else!

I need to buy a 2Tb M.2 drive for this rig (mainly to house the growing monster that is MSFS!) - what type works with this board?

M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 or just M.2 NVMe?  Or neither (or both)  Yikes!  ;D

I'm really struggling with the terminologies here.

Will this fit and work?
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/2tb-samsung-970-evo-plus-m2-2280-pcie-30-x4-nvme-ssd-mlc-v-nand-3500mb-s-read-3300mb-s-write-620k-56

:)
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