480gb m.2 nvme ssd or 960gb?

[Sugar Hill Contract]

Last part in building a rig. Wnated to see if anything significant as far as gaming would have to do from the drives. I'll be be playing in 4k mostly.

[Autumn_]

Digibluez님이 먼저 게시:

Lets see, he will be playing 4k games, have windows on it with all the apps and other programs, mine is like using 200GB. And if you try to fit any big open world games with 4k texture packs on it, it would get full and slow down drive

Filling an SSD up only slows writes, the read should stay basically the same.

For open world games, especially ones with combat (i.e DayZ, PubG, Arma3) if you have problems fetching a sound, texture, or model, you're going to have a stutter, and that's the last thing you want.

Sure, many games are fine without an SSD, for example CoD, CSGO, and R6S, that all load needed things into RAM before the game starts, so it'll be fine.

Open world, or games that don't preload it all NEED an SSD.

And, afaik 4k textures don't take up that much space, it's the models and map(s) that do.
(Someone please correct me on this if I'm wrong.)

Jamebonds1님이 먼저 게시:

Go for 1 TB SSD as a main drive. It will be worth it in your system. So do my system once my Samsung EVO 1 TB gets here. I have a lot of movies I got from Blu-ray digital copy, and a lot of music is hi-res.

Friendly warning, don't go for PRO SSD. It is almost the same speed and more expensive.

The Pro drives have better sequential read/write and they have the same Random I/O (the kind games use), and also more endurance (TBW), so litterally nothing the average user would need.

[Jamebonds1]

Autumn님이 먼저 게시:

Jamebonds1님이 먼저 게시:

Go for 1 TB SSD as a main drive. It will be worth it in your system. So do my system once my Samsung EVO 1 TB gets here. I have a lot of movies I got from Blu-ray digital copy, and a lot of music is hi-res.

Friendly warning, don't go for PRO SSD. It is almost the same speed and more expensive.

The Pro drives have better sequential read/write and they have the same Random I/O (the kind games use), and also more endurance (TBW), so litterally nothing the average user would need.

Nope.

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-970-evo-1tb/p/N82E16820147714

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-970-pro-1tb/p/N82E16820147694

https://youtu.be/u6w8XvWhEHw

It is a small improve from EVO to PRO, not better. That Is why PRO SSD is not worth it.

[Autumn_]

Jamebonds1님이 먼저 게시:

Autumn님이 먼저 게시:

The Pro drives have better sequential read/write and they have the same Random I/O (the kind games use), and also more endurance (TBW), so litterally nothing the average user would need.

Nope.

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-970-evo-1tb/p/N82E16820147714

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-970-pro-1tb/p/N82E16820147694

https://youtu.be/u6w8XvWhEHw

It is a small improve from EVO to PRO, not better. That Is why PRO SSD is not worth it.

Err mate, I dunno if you can read, but I agreed with you...

[Jamebonds1]

Autumn님이 먼저 게시:

Jamebonds1님이 먼저 게시:

Nope.

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-970-evo-1tb/p/N82E16820147714

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-970-pro-1tb/p/N82E16820147694

https://youtu.be/u6w8XvWhEHw

It is a small improve from EVO to PRO, not better. That Is why PRO SSD is not worth it.

Err mate, I dunno if you can read, but I agreed with you...

Lol. I read it correction.

[Overseer]

Also noteworthy is that an OS on a fast SSD combined with a game from a slower HDD can still perform way better than from a HDD alone. Some of that game data can end up on the SSD through caching and will improve overall performance during a gaming session.
Concerning Tekken 7 i also had that case where a simple update from the developer improved loading times by like x10. Even though i still had it on a slow 5400 rpm HDD.
Now having it moved to an SSD i don't even notice any difference anymore. It really depends on how the game is coded and how much data gets moved. Fighting games are certainly lightweights there.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Streaming doesn't mean much unless you are also having it record video to local disk. Some streamers do this so they can make edits and highlights for their twitch or youtube aside from the full streams. Plus twitch will generally only save your past streams for but 6 months if you don't turn it into a highlight and re-save it manually.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Overseer님이 먼저 게시:

Also noteworthy is that an OS on a fast SSD combined with a game from a slower HDD can still perform way better than from a HDD alone. Some of that game data can end up on the SSD through caching and will improve overall performance during a gaming session.
Concerning Tekken 7 i also had that case where a simple update from the developer improved loading times by like x10. Even though i still had it on a slow 5400 rpm HDD.
Now having it moved to an SSD i don't even notice any difference anymore. It really depends on how the game is coded and how much data gets moved. Fighting games are certainly lightweights there.

No, if the game is installed on secondary hdd that's where it stays. It never touches the ssd. However the os will continue to run fluid, unlike when on a hdd and this does help the game also, even if that game is on a hdd. There is no caching going on unless you have Intel Optane. However, some games do put some cache files on the os drive, as it tends to put a few needed files such as some loading cache, config files and saved games always on the os drive. Such as in Documents or AppData structures.

[Jamebonds1]

Bad 💀 Motha님이 먼저 게시:

Streaming doesn't mean much unless you are also having it record video to local disk. Some streamers do this so they can make edits and highlights for their twitch or youtube aside from the full streams. Plus twitch will generally only save your past streams for but 6 months if you don't turn it into a highlight and re-save it manually.

Who are you talk to?