Tue May 24, 2016 1:19 pm
Just to close out this forum thread:
I installed the 950 pro in an addonics adapter card and put it in my machine. The UEFI bios offered me an option to boot to it. I installed windows 10 and it was an easy setup. I didn't even update my bios to the latest version (some Asus bios' are more O/C friendly than others and I didn't want to mess up the excellent O/C I currently have). All-in-all this was one of the most problem free installations I've ever had.
The 950pro gets about 850MB/s in both atto and crystalmark, a good deal faster than any sata SSD, though obviously not even half as fast as it would be in a PCIe3 slot. It boots Windows very quickly, and the interface is very snappy to use. The real benefit was in application performance. I use all the Adobe CC apps and watching Photoshop or Premiere light up so quickly is a thing of awe.
This wasn't a cheap upgrade, it cost me around $280CAD for the SSD and the adapter, but its very future proof and delivered another level of performance. I can't imagine how fast a system with a 950 pro in a proper PCIe3 slot paired with an current gen i7 and some fast DDR4 ram would be. As well, if you are just gaming, an HDD-less system with a 950pro and a 1tb Mushkin SSD would be pretty badass.
Thanks to Mrm for the heads up on how he did the same installation.
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