
Thankfully, the internet is full of websites to show you how well nearly every drive around can perform. The actual hard disk or SSD performance under Windows is determined by several factors so how do you know if your drive is performing well, needs tweaking or is even holding the system back? It’s because upgrading just that one part can breath new life into a computer and make it feel a lot more snappy to use. This is a reason why high performance hard drives and especially SSD’s are so popular these days. If you have Windows installed on a slow hard drive, it doesn’t matter how powerful the other components like CPU and memory are, the system will boot slower, load programs more slowly, and lag quite badly while multitasking. They seem to come and go as they please.One of the most important hardware components inside your computer is obviously the drive that holds the operating system. So I've also experienced these wonky x570 results. Like you, I've got a z170 intel build with a 960 pro that always gave consistent results. I've attached two captures of two different tests that were performed today, one after the other. I've read several other forum topics with similar reports, and one that ultimately rma'd the drive and went with a different manufacturer. I've tried toggling write caching in windows (no change in results). I'm using the latest AMD x570 drivers (no change in results) and the latest firmware for the gen 4 drive (no change in results). I also notice intermittent slow transfer speeds when transferring large files from my gen4 drive to gen 3 drive. My PCH is watercooled and maxes in the low 40s after repeated tests, and my aorus drive never exceeds 58* during back to back testing. The Gen4 drive gets results ranging from the 1gb writes to 4gb writes. The gen 3 drive gets consistent results no matter when it's tested. I have a crosshair viii, a 1tb aorus gen4, and 2 tb gen 3 nvme drive. Click to expand.So I've also experienced these wonky x570 results.
