M.2 slots or DIMM.2 slot for C drive?

[Spacemanspiff01]

Hey peeps,

I have the Asus 'Zenith Extreme Alpha' motherboard with a 2950X TR, Windows 10 EDU is installed on a Samsung 970 m.2 on a DIMM.2 which is a duel m.2 ssd support that stands out like a stick of ram on the motherboard. however is this a bottleneck for the performance?

this system has felt less snappy than my once sandy bridge 2700k with a regular crucial ssd and i just cant find out why.

I think its the ssd in the DIMM.2 slot but im not as deep technically with slots on a motherboard.

any thoughts?

[Jesseinsf]

Spacemanspiff01 wrote:
Hey peeps,

I have the Asus 'Zenith Extreme Alpha' motherboard with a 2950X TR, Windows 10 EDU is installed on a Samsung 970 m.2 on a DIMM.2 which is a duel m.2 ssd support that stands out like a stick of ram on the motherboard. however is this a bottleneck for the performance?

this system has felt less snappy than my once sandy bridge 2700k with a regular crucial ssd and i just cant find out why.

I think its the ssd in the DIMM.2 slot but im not as deep technically with slots on a motherboard.

any thoughts?

Use the DIMM.2 slot for two NVMe SSDs (preferably in RAId 0 mode and use the onboard M.2 slot for a single NVMe SSD. When using the DIMM.2, install the AMD RAIDXpert2 Utility and for the onboard M.2, install the Samsung NVMe driver.

[Spacemanspiff01]

Jesseinsf wrote:
Use the DIMM.2 slot for two NVMe SSDs (preferably in RAId 0 mode and use the onboard M.2 slot for a single NVMe SSD. When using the DIMM.2, install the AMD RAIDXpert2 Utility and for the onboard M.2, install the Samsung NVMe driver.

I just have the 1x M.2 SSD on the DIMM.2 stick (left side), should it be in the onboard slot?

[Grey_Worm]

Spacemanspiff01 wrote:
Hey peeps,

I have the Asus 'Zenith Extreme Alpha' motherboard with a 2950X TR, Windows 10 EDU is installed on a Samsung 970 m.2 on a DIMM.2 which is a duel m.2 ssd support that stands out like a stick of ram on the motherboard. however is this a bottleneck for the performance?

this system has felt less snappy than my once sandy bridge 2700k with a regular crucial ssd and i just cant find out why.

I think its the ssd in the DIMM.2 slot but im not as deep technically with slots on a motherboard.

any thoughts?

What makes you think the lack of snappiness is down to the DIMM.2 slot? Have you tried running any performance tests on the disk, or looking at the I/O latency?

[Megascrypt]

I run Win 10 Pro OS of DIMM2 with Samsung 970 Pro and its no different in speed if you run it of any of the onboard M.2's and BTW. I have Maximus Extreme XIII.

What I really like about the DIMM2 is that its so easy to access and I also run Noctua NH-D15S dual fans, so one of the fans keeping my 970 Pro really cool (27C on idle and 33C-34C on full load)

Also running OS of DIMM2 not taking any lines of PCIEX16 so my Strix 3090 OC still runs @16 and even if it did run @8, there is literally no difference, Its more of a psychological mind set.