x570 Taichi M.2 Samsung 970 EVO PLUS Support?
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Topic: x570 Taichi M.2 Samsung 970 EVO PLUS Support?
Posted By: bmo
Subject: x570 Taichi M.2 Samsung 970 EVO PLUS Support?
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2019 at 8:08am
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I have an x570 Taichi, AMD 3900x; I've installed a Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 SSD (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) into M2_3, but the motherboard doesn't recognize it. Is this to be expected? I am running BIOS 1.8; I want to have this M.2 SSD be the primary (boot) drive. Attaching a Samsung 960 SSD via SATA works just fine, and I've loaded Windows 10, thinking there could be an NVMe driver necessary (I could use it as a secondary disk), however the drive is not recognized at all. Anyone else seeing this? Thanks |
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Posted By: Ray62
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2019 at 4:07pm
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I recommend to place the 970 Evo in M2_1. This slot is directly connected to the CPU, has no dependency to other hardware and will give the best performance, preferred for using as primary boot drive. You can install the Samsung NVMe driver and tools. However, the 970 Evo should also work in M2_3, it is connected to the chipset x570, but PCIE5 slot will be disabled. If it is neither working in M2_1 or M2_3, you maybe have the same problem as many other users reporting here in the forum. ------------- Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming Offline Under test: MSI X570_MEG_ACE | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | Scythe Mugen5 | 2x16GB F4-3200C14D-32GTZ@3466 | ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE |
Posted By: bmo
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 at 12:23am
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Thank you for the advice. Moving the Samsung 970 to M.2_1 solved it; Windows 10 is installing on that drive as I type this. Perhaps the issue with M.2_3 is mechanical; the small screw provided for holding down the M.2 card in the 3rd slot may not keep the card fully seated, making recognition flakey. The M.2_1 slot on the Taichi uses the same screw that holds down the cooling cover on the MB. |
Posted By: bmo
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 at 12:37am
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Well, I wrote too soon. Though the system recognizes the drive, and the Windows installer will copy files to it, it will NOT boot from it to finish the Windows installation. I could use the M.2 drive for storage and continue to boot from the SATA attached drive; but the overall instability of this is giving me cause for concern. |
Posted By: Ray62
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 at 4:35am
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Did you unplug all other drives when installing the OS? You should do that. In the bios the 970 Evo should appear in the Boot Override section after installation. Also may be worse to read: How To Install Windows On A PCIe SSD: http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1236&title=how-to-install-windows-on-a-pcie-ssd ------------- Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming Offline Under test: MSI X570_MEG_ACE | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | Scythe Mugen5 | 2x16GB F4-3200C14D-32GTZ@3466 | ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE |
Posted By: bmo
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 at 10:50am
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No, and I forgot about the management partition I was lacking because of that. Thanks for reminding me. Boots just fine now, thanks. |
Posted By: shmerl
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 at 1:58pm
What about M2_2? Is it also directly connected to the CPU? |
Ray62 wrote:Posted By: shmerl
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 at 2:18pm
| And if if it's connected to the chipset and not the CPU (M2_2) are there any downsides in using it? It will make the chipset running hotter? |
Posted By: Ray62
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 at 3:10pm
No.
There should be no (real) downsides. The chipset just has to route all data transfer from the connected devices to it via one 4x PCIe link to/from the CPU. In theory that can be bottleneck. But with a Zen2 here we have PCIe 4 instead of PCIe 3 (old generation boards). Have a look the a AMD Zen2 launch article or here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14161/the-amd-x570-motherboard-overview  ------------- Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming Offline Under test: MSI X570_MEG_ACE | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | Scythe Mugen5 | 2x16GB F4-3200C14D-32GTZ@3466 | ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE |
Posted By: shmerl
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 at 3:13pm
| But does it mean more load on the chipset and thus more heat / fan noise from it? |
Posted By: Ray62
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 at 3:35pm
In theory yes, if the workload is high. ------------- Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming Offline Under test: MSI X570_MEG_ACE | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | Scythe Mugen5 | 2x16GB F4-3200C14D-32GTZ@3466 | ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE |
Posted By: gizmic
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 at 6:41pm
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it shouldnt be under much stress as its not doing a full pcie4 spec ------------- 
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Posted By: Termy
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2019 at 3:43am
Now that you've got it working in M2_1 (i assume?), i'd like to ask what temperatures you are getting shown in smart? Mine is at around 53° on idle, which seams to be quite high considering the big heatsink/coverplate... |
Posted By: shmerl
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2019 at 3:20pm
| Mine runs at around 45°C on idle. And I suspect it's due to GPU being right above that position on the heatsink. I'd prefer something belot 40°C. |
Posted By: gizmic
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2019 at 3:42pm
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hwinfo reports my 970 evo @ 41C this is a water cooled GPU -------------
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Posted By: shmerl
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 1:08am
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At what temperature does is tart throttling? I suspect this covered flat heatsinkg setup is suboptimal to begin with, but may be it's not a big issue for Samsuing Evo 970 Plus, if it throttles only at high temperatures? Mine go between 45 (idle) and 60 degrees (full load). I also suspect, motherboard chipset being hot affects it. In my case chipset always runs at 60C no matter what, even if its fan is set to highest setting. Which is a bit weird to begin with. |
Posted By: gizmic
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 10:54am
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i dont think it throttles it will just crash your system if you do go over its operating temp. -------------
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