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System Name | Best AMD Computer |
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Processor | AMD 7900X3D |
Motherboard | Asus X670E E Strix |
Cooling | In Win SR36 |
Memory | GSKILL DDR5 32GB 5200 30 |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire Pulse 7900XT (Watercooled) |
Storage | Corsair MP 700, Seagate 530 2Tb, Adata SX8200 2TBx2, Kingston 2 TBx2, Micron 8 TB, WD AN 1500 |
Display(s) | GIGABYTE FV43U |
Case | Corsair 7000D Airflow |
Audio Device(s) | Corsair Void Pro, Logitch Z523 5.1 |
Power Supply | Deepcool 1000M |
Mouse | Logitech g7 gaming mouse |
Keyboard | Logitech G510 |
Software | Windows 11 Pro 64 Steam. GOG, Uplay, Origin |
Benchmark Scores | Firestrike: 46183 Time Spy: 25121 |
Hi fellow enthusiasts. I posted a thread on my thoughts and impressions of the X399 system and why the other day. I am now going to do a post on whether or not NVME RAID has a discernable difference with Gaming. I am only going to use 1 game as an example Total War Warhammer 2. The reason for that is it is the the game I have played the most in the past year and I also believe it is one of the most intensive PC games too. I am at work now so I will try to post screen shots when I get home today. I have 3 NVME drives in a RAID 0 array built in Windows DIsk Mgmt. They are 2 Adata SX8200 480GB and 1 AData SX8200 PRO 512GB using an Asus M2 riser card ($67.99 CAD on Amazon). I then moved TWWH2, which had been on a 4TB SSD RAID 0 array before to the new 1.5 TB NVME array. The game loaded (they have a new platform) into the launcher at about the same time. The splash screen is much faster. Loading into a campaign felt about 10 to 15 seconds faster. I got into the campaign and ended the current turn. It took 37 seconds on the Mortal Empires campaign to complete a full turn. The next thing I tried was a battle. I tried 1440P with 80% scaling. I used MSI Afterburner to record data. On a 1 vs 1 20 stack each battle my FPS never went below 104! Yes I was skipping frames but that was because my 2 GPUS were at different clocks. The first one was at 1662 MHZ and the 2nd at 1521 MHZ. I had just reset WIndows so I have not done any adjustments in Wattman other than enabling crossfire. I did run a Crystal DIsk mark test (500 mb) and the speeds were over 6000 sequential, writes were in the 6500 sequential range and the Qd32 were each above 400 MBs. As I said before I will update with screenshots when I get home. The next game I am going to try is AC Odyssey. So is NVME RAID worth it. FOr me it feels the same as when I went from HDD to SSD. I would not recommend using a RAID NVME as boot though.