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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > PC Building Megathread: As long as she doesn't demand ray tracing
 
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Chikimiki
May 14, 2009
 Sorry for the newb question, but is there any measurable difference in SSD performance between a Samsung 970 Evo Plus and a WD Blue SN570, at the same size?

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Chikimiki
May 14, 2009

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

I mean, there is a measurable difference. The 970 Evo Plus has both a larger SLC cache (the 570's is only like 12GB per TB) and much faster TLC flash than the SN570. So despite both having the same read and write speeds on paper, the 970 Evo Plus will handle very large writes much more quickly. Which means if you're copying large files to the drive at once (with no pauses/idle time), the 970 Evo Plus will do that quite a bit faster. But in all other circumstances, the drives will be basically the same. Don't spend extra on the 970 Evo Plus if you don't expect to be doing that often.

Alright, thanks! I don't think I need the performance, but at the same price point, why not ? :v:

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Chikimiki
May 14, 2009

Daddys hot grill posted:

Hey thread, long time no see.

I am thinking about getting a box to play my old steam games on again but I'm on a budget and in Japan, where the yen is becoming more and more worthless every day. The most recent thing in my collection, and my target game, is Dark Souls 3. Honestly I will not be buying any new AAA games as I am old and jaded, and I have a PS5 for that. My monitor is a pa248qv which is 1920x1200 and has VRR (is this still relevant?)

My main fantasy is to avoid Windows completely and run some flavor of linux, using proton to run the non native games. I know historically the advice of the thread is to avoid APUs, buuuuttttt is that still the case? Could I save money and meet my needs with a little AMD APU build? Small form factor is a big plus too.

Maybe the Steam Deck could be a good option for you?

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