Test Procedures and Test Bench

Intel LGA2011 V3 Test System
CPU Intel i7-5960X CPU Live Pricing
Motherboard MSI X99A MPower Live Pricing
Cooling

Noctua NH-U12S for cooling

Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste

Live Pricing

Live Pricing

Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4 4x4GB Live Pricing
Storage Kingston HyperX 240GB Live Pricing
Video Card Nvidia GTX 780 Live Pricing
Power Supply Thermaltake Grand 850W PSU Live Pricing
Case Dimastech Test Bench Live Pricing
OS Windows 7 Pro 64-bit Live Pricing
Test Procedures
CrystalDiskMark Sequential read and write speed testing
AS SSD File Copy benchmark using ISO, Program, and Game settings
Passmark 8 Advanced Disk Benchmark using the four default tests Database, File Server, Web Server, and Workstation
PCMark 8 Default storage benchmark but we use the bandwidth result not the score
Anvile’s Storage Utilities We run the whole SSD benchmark but only use the 4K QD16 IOPS
Queue Depth Testing This uses Anvil’s as well but we run individual tests set to 4k file size at a queue depth from 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and for read speeds 128

 

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #36648 06 May 2015 02:03
Today I take a look at a PCIe based M.2 drive with a PCIe adapter from Kingston

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