• igby1@alien.topB
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      11 months ago

      Why? Because they all run so hot they require big heat spreaders?

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        11 months ago

        Also in real world situations you are very unlikely to notice performance differences vs a Gen 4 drive.

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        11 months ago

        Double the price of a good gen 4 drive, with little performance gain and the requirement of a hilariously big cooler.

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          11 months ago

          It’s only $150 aud more than the 990 pro and my motherboards cooler keeps it under 65c so how is it hard to cool

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      11 months ago

      I’m having a blast with them. You’ll need some effort to take advantage of them, though. For example, standard C or C++ file IO lets the operating system do some buffering/caching in the background, which completely thrashes CPU and consequently also read performance. Do unbuffered reads, for which you’ll unfortunately have to use native winapi because its not in the c standard, an you’ll be able to fully utilize the SSD.