Fatal1ty Z97 Killer and m.2 NVMe Drive

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   Hi Guys,
I was lucky enough to do an upgrade on a clients pc to the new 8th gen i7 processor.

He gave me his old Fatal1ty Z97 Killer with 32gb ddr 3 ram and  4970k i7 cpu .

I am still in need of a PSU, HDD and case.
which i will purchase over the next 2 months.

I am looking at the Samsung 960 EVO 250gb m.2 NVMe drive.

My mobo supports gen2 so will this work and will it give me faster speeds than a standard SSD sata drive, or will i be wasting money and just rather go for the SSD sata?

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carnagelan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2018 Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote carnagelan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Fatal1ty Z97 Killer and m.2 NVMe Drive Posted: 23 Jan 2018 at 2:51pm
	Hi Guys, I was lucky enough to do an upgrade on a clients pc to the new 8th gen i7 processor. He gave me his old Fatal1ty Z97 Killer with 32gb ddr 3 ram and 4970k i7 cpu . I am still in need of a PSU, HDD and case. which i will purchase over the next 2 months. I am looking at the Samsung 960 EVO 250gb m.2 NVMe drive. My mobo supports gen2 so will this work and will it give me faster speeds than a standard SSD sata drive, or will i be wasting money and just rather go for the SSD sata?

Xaltar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 16 May 2015 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 22793	Post Options Post Reply Quote Xaltar Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jan 2018 at 3:45pm
	Personally I would go for a larger standard SSD. The performance difference, even with a newer board, is not worth the premium (at least to me). If this was an all new system then NVMe would be more tempting but with potential compatibility issues, bottlenecked performance and cost difference the SATA route is probably wiser. I would try and pick up a 512gb or bigger SATA SSD that you can later use as a secondary drive if you upgrade down the line. That is a sweet setup though, the Haswell i7 is still a beast and with 32gb of RAM you will be sitting pretty for a good long while with it


carnagelan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2018 Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote carnagelan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jan 2018 at 2:07pm
	Thank you, I have decided to go with a 512gb ssd drive and a standard 1tb sata drive as a secondary. It will take me 2 or 3 months to get everything to run as i have budgets and so forth. The case i am going to get is the white Deepcool Dukase v2 which i think looks cool. GPU will come at a later stage and will probably go with the 1060

Boroda Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 23 Apr 2020 Location: USA PA Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Boroda Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Apr 2020 at 1:25am
	Hi, I have the same configuration i7 32 G DDR3 and looking to install 970 EVO SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe, the SATA SSD for 1TB price is really close. My only question is if I can use my old HDD as backup and M.2 as main drive. Looks like if I use M.2 then SATA will be disabled? Or you think is better to use 1TB SATA SSD? Thank you
	Thank you.