Hi all

I'm currently building a new system and I have two NVME SSD's. This system will primarily be used for flight simulation.

One is a M.2 1TB PCIE4.0 (Upto 6600MB/s) and the other is a M.2 1TB PCIE3.0 (Upto 3500MB/s).

This will be on an ASUS AMD ROG STRIX B550-E Gaming motherboard.

If this was your system, would you put the O/S on the PCIE4.0 or the PCIE3.0?

Thanks

20 minutes ago, Adam Reed said:

Hi all

I'm currently building a new system and I have two NVME SSD's. This system will primarily be used for flight simulation.

One is a M.2 1TB PCIE4.0 (Upto 6600MB/s) and the other is a M.2 1TB PCIE3.0 (Upto 3500MB/s).

This will be on an ASUS AMD ROG STRIX B550-E Gaming motherboard.

If this was your system, would you put the O/S on the PCIE4.0 or the PCIE3.0?

Thanks

Check out this article with benchmarks of PCIE 4.0 vs PCIE 3.0 for gaming: https://www.techspot.com/review/2104-pcie4-vs-pcie3-gpu-performance/

While MSFS is not in these benchmarks, it probably performs similar to the other games.  Based on those benchmarks, I'm not sure if the PCIE 4.0 SSD is that much better than the PCIE 3.0 SSD.

Edited July 18, 20223 yr by abrams_tank

1 minute ago, abrams_tank said:

While MSFS is not in these benchmarks, it probably performs similar to the other games.  Based on those benchmarks, I'm not sure if paying the extra money for a PCIE 4.0 SSD is worth it.

Thanks for the reply - I already have both SSD's - I got the 4.0 on offer on Prime Day, so I'm trying to decide which one to put O/S and which to put the sim on.

Just now, Adam Reed said:

Thanks for the reply - I already have both SSD's - I got the 4.0 on offer on Prime Day, so I'm trying to decide which one to put O/S and which to put the sim on.

Yeah, I edited my quote, when I noticed you already own the two different SSDs.  I doubt there will be a big difference in performance between the PCIE 4.0 and PCIE 3.0 SSD for MSFS.  Having said that, MSFS eats up a lot of space, expect some 200 GB or more, especially if you have a lot of add-ons.  

I'm leaning towards putting the O/S on the 4.0 so it gives the whole system as much read/write speed as possible and MSFS on the 3.0....

The OS should always go on the fastest drive that you have so that the pc can take advantage of it. 

1 hour ago, Adam Reed said:

Hi all

I'm currently building a new system and I have two NVME SSD's. This system will primarily be used for flight simulation.

One is a M.2 1TB PCIE4.0 (Upto 6600MB/s) and the other is a M.2 1TB PCIE3.0 (Upto 3500MB/s).

This will be on an ASUS AMD ROG STRIX B550-E Gaming motherboard.

If this was your system, would you put the O/S on the PCIE4.0 or the PCIE3.0?

Thanks

You put the faster one where the OS resides.

The PCIE 3 unit is more than enough for the sim if its going on the other drive.

At least that's what i would do.

Put MSFS on the bigger one. 
3.0 vs 4.0 doesn’t make a difference. 
You won’t even feel a difference between the OS on a SATA SSD compared to a nvme. 

No difference at all 

On 7/18/2022 at 9:19 PM, MySound said:

Put MSFS on the bigger one. 

Size is everything. After two years my MSFS with all addons is taking up a little over 1 TB.