The Western digital blue 2tb ssd? I see them having 4.8 stars on Amazon and 2% are one star?Christmas in June!
I'd pass on the SA510 SSDs. They have 12% one-star reviews on Amazon and you can find a lot of complaints online.
That discontinued version was great, but it's the SA510 (current version) that has rough reviews:The Western digital blue 2tb ssd? I see them having 4.8 stars on Amazon and 2% are one star?
Western Digital 2TB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS200T2B0A, Solid State Hard Drive https://a.co/d/acQWzRJ
Shit. Cuz that's the one that B&H had. I guess I'm going to have to return them unopened.That discontinued version was great, but it's the SA510 (current version) that has rough reviews:
Not sure what to recommend at this point for a SATA SSD; NVMe has a lot more options to pick and choose from.
In the past, the MX500 was one of the best choices.I'm gonna go with two Crucial MX500 2TB SSd's instead of the WD Blue. I'll have to return those as they already shipped. Not paying the Samsung tax. I have a 1TB Crucial SSD which I've been running windows and all programs off of for the last few years, no issues.
I'm using the 2TB WD Black NVMe as my C drive.In the past, the MX500 was one of the best choices.
BoomerD suggested NVMe; any reason you won't just drop in a good 4TB NVMe SSD and call it a day?
I'm using the 2TB WD Black NVMe as my C drive.
I need two 2TB SATA drives because one will be used just for high res photo and video files (dji drone and action cam) while I edit them. I don't want anything else on that drive.
the second 2TB SSD will be for all my other data, plus for any totally finished and edited videos. I have my fundamentals backed up to a cloud and also to an external hard drive, so that is my backup.
Compare the speed differences:
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Crucial MX500 1TB
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WD SN770 2TB NVMe
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WD SN770 1TB NVMe.
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HP EX950 1TB NVMe (gen 3) in the PCI-e gen 3 slot on the board
Sorry, saw your post late but this kit is better: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...4gx5m2b6600c32_vengeance_rgb_64gb_2x32gb.html
Lower latency and if you decide to upgrade to Zen 5 next year or even in 2026, the higher speed should help you squeeze more MT performance from the CPU.
Appreciate it. I'll build this weekend and have no idea how advanced overclocking has gotten.I would suggest not using EXPO or XMP first. Just set the CAS latency to 30 or 32 (if 30 doesn't work) and let all other timings be AUTO at 6000 MT/s. The mobo will automatically negotiate proper timings for a stable operation during the memory training process. First time training can take up to 7 minutes but subsequent boots (even cold boots) should be less than a minute. So you need to wait on a blank screen while the mobo trains the RAM on first boot. It may fail to negotiate a speed on the first boot and then you may end up with DDR5-4400 or even DDR5-3600. Just set the speed to 6000 and only CL to 30/32/34 and everything else should work smoothly.
You will probably not need to overclock anything. That's a beast of a CPU for most needs other than heavy multicore workloads for which the 7950X is better suited. Forgot to mention that you will need to put the DIMMs in preferred RAM slots indicated under the slots on the mobo itself or check the manual. That should give you the best signal integrity to maintain stable high speeds at low timings.Appreciate it. I'll build this weekend and have no idea how advanced overclocking has gotten.
That's what I mean. For my brief reading of reviews of The ram to pick the replacement for the g-skill, It seems like the motherboards figure it all out with the speed of the ram.You will probably not need to overclock anything. That's a beast of a CPU for most needs other than heavy multicore workloads for which the 7950X is better suited. Forgot to mention that you will need to put the DIMMs in preferred RAM slots indicated under the slots on the mobo itself or check the manual. That should give you the best signal integrity to maintain stable high speeds at low timings.
I had a G.Skill 5600 kit with Samsung chips which wouldn't play nice with my 12700K and went to max DDR5-4600 CL28 and in a fit of rage, I downclocked it to DDR5-3200 CL17-17-17-something. That was kinda fun to see. Then put in a Hynix 7600 kit from Teamgroup and was able to be mostly stable at 7000 MT/s CL34. Downclocked that to 6000 MT/s CL28 and seems to be rock solid now. The experience was mostly painless with the Hynix kit.It seems like the motherboards figure it all out with the speed of the ram.
Well first I have to add a bit more thermal paste. I was stingy and my idle temps are too high. Then I'll have to watch a quick tutorial on overclocking, but I'll wait until after I have windows and my proggies all installed and arranged properlyPost MaxxMem2 score?
You gonna bother with curve optimizer?
OCCT is good if you want to benchmark it and compare to their chart of where you stand. If you do, hope you post them here.