REKTangle Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Hi, I have recently purchased an MP500 however, after installing it I am only reaching around 600mb/s on it. It is installed on an AsRock Fatality Z97x Killer. The m.2 slot is set to force m.2 and all pcie slots set to gen3. Is there anything else that can be done to improve the speeds? Is this a limitation of the motherboard? Other Specs: i7-4790k GTX1060 6GB 16GB 3200MHZ Corsair Vengence Secondary SSD: Kingston HyperX Fury Windows 10 Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Links Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 On my Asus IX formula motherboard there are 2 m.2 slots. Slot m.2_1 is always working on x4 speed. But m.2_2 is x2 by default. It can be changed to x4, but in this case 2 SATA ports will be disabled. Maybe your m.2 port is set x2... In some cases you will need to sacrifice some ports to make other work full speed. By the way, how hot is your ssd in idle? How many fans there are in your case?Are some of them blowing on the ssd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Do you have the latest BIOS installed? Take a look at your manual and see whether there are any options that need to be changed if the motherboard supports NVMe drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REKTangle Posted March 26, 2017 Author Share Posted March 26, 2017 On my Asus IX formula motherboard there are 2 m.2 slots. Slot m.2_1 is always working on x4 speed. But m.2_2 is x2 by default. It can be changed to x4, but in this case 2 SATA ports will be disabled. Maybe your m.2 port is set x2... In some cases you will need to sacrifice some ports to make other work full speed. By the way, how hot is your ssd in idle? How many fans there are in your case?Are some of them blowing on the ssd? My motherboard only has 1 m.2 slot. The only setting you can do on it is to either force sata or m.2 through that port. At idle it the mp500 is around 32degrees, motherboard sitting at around 22 and cpu varies from 28-35 Cooling is not an issue as the case is large and has good airflow with plenty of fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REKTangle Posted March 26, 2017 Author Share Posted March 26, 2017 Do you have the latest BIOS installed? Take a look at your manual and see whether there are any options that need to be changed if the motherboard supports NVMe drives. I have updated the bios and the NVMe option popped up. IT only displays the drive connected nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 What are you using to test the drive performance? The same software and versions Corsair used? According to ASRock's page, The slot is 10Gb/s which is about 1.25GB/s max, so it may be best to consider a PCIe adapter card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REKTangle Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 What are you using to test the drive performance? The same software and versions Corsair used? According to ASRock's page, The slot is 10Gb/s which is about 1.25GB/s max, so it may be best to consider a PCIe adapter card. Makes sense. Im upgrading to AsRock fatality k6 now. I will test it on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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