It has a heatsink, but it seems like you need thermal pads on your chips to go in between. Since there is a sticker covering the chips I didn't bother to use the heatsink else I might void the warranty (Is there a warranty? No idea).
Other reason that I got a PCIE card is because my motherboard's M.2 slot runs at PCIE 2.0 x2. Not good enough. Even with the card, I still only run at PCIE 2.0 x4. (Need a better motherboard)
I think that's why my benchmarks are a bit slower than some of the numbers I've seen in the other SM951 thread. It's definitely faster than running off the M.2 slot though.
I think you'll need a 1.5mm thermal pad for that, might even be 2mm heh, No need to take off the sticker on the SM951 just stick the thermal pad on top of it, That's what Plextor does with there new Black Edition M6e's.
Unless I was supplied with one I did not. I have a PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 slot on my test bench. I may have to get one for a RAID 0 review tho....but I think my boss is going to do that one. I'll be taking photos and initial benches today, I can't wait, but I have soo much other stuff I have to do before I can. :'(
All very odd. Purchased a new Samsung SM951 256GB AHCI M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 card which arrived a few days ago. Stuck it into the M.2 slot on a Asus x99 Deluxe board and fired up into the BIOS. Card was read out of the box and I was one happy bunny. I then checked on my current BIOS version (1305) and just as all good boys followed the advice on RAMCITY and upgraded the boards BIOS to the latest version 1702. Rebooted and the new M.2 drive had disappeared. After a good 5 hours of fiddling with the BIOS settings/resetting the BIOS x times and a good bit of g research discovered this page - spotted the 1602 compatibility note next to my board and hence installed the X99-DELUXE BIOS 1601... still no luck.
Can anyone tell me what the correct settings for this board should be? Most say just load up the default settings... but so far no good.
All very odd. Purchased a new Samsung SM951 256GB AHCI M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 card which arrived a few days ago. Stuck it into the M.2 slot on a Asus x99 Deluxe board and fired up into the BIOS. Card was read out of the box and I was one happy bunny. I then checked on my current BIOS version (1305) and just as all good boys followed the advice on RAMCITY and upgraded the boards BIOS to the latest version 1702. Rebooted and the new M.2 drive had disappeared. After a good 5 hours of fiddling with the BIOS settings/resetting the BIOS x times and a good bit of g research discovered this page - spotted the 1602 compatibility note next to my board and hence installed the X99-DELUXE BIOS 1601... still no luck.
Can anyone tell me what the correct settings for this board should be? Most say just load up the default settings... but so far no good.
Launch CSM was already Enabled with the following settings:
Boot Device Control -> UEFI and Legacy OPROM
Boot from Netweoth Devices -> UEFI first
Boot from Storage Devices -> UEFI first
Boot from PCI-E/PCI Expansion Devices -> UEFI first
That said I have fiddled with most of these settings with no luck.
I also disabled Secure Boot state - to do this I had to send OS Type to 'Other OS' and then needed to go into Key Management and uninstall Secure boot keys - sadly BIOS still cannot 'see' the new M.2 drive.
Just in case any of these ring a bell here are a few settings that I am not 100% sure are correct:
Hyper ket Mode -> Disabled
SATAEXPRESS_1 SRIS Support -> Auto
S.M.A.R.T Status Check -> On
SATA Controller 1 Mode Selection -> AHCI
Support Aggressive Link Power Management -> Disabled
Intel Rapid Storage Technology is Enabled
Fast boot -> Disabled (but would like to think I have tried Enabled with most settings)
All very odd. Purchased a new Samsung SM951 256GB AHCI M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 card which arrived a few days ago. Stuck it into the M.2 slot on a Asus x99 Deluxe board and fired up into the BIOS. Card was read out of the box and I was one happy bunny. I then checked on my current BIOS version (1305) and just as all good boys followed the advice on RAMCITY and upgraded the boards BIOS to the latest version 1702. Rebooted and the new M.2 drive had disappeared. After a good 5 hours of fiddling with the BIOS settings/resetting the BIOS x times and a good bit of g research discovered this page - spotted the 1602 compatibility note next to my board and hence installed the X99-DELUXE BIOS 1601... still no luck.
Can anyone tell me what the correct settings for this board should be? Most say just load up the default settings... but so far no good.
Just installed the SM951 512GB size after finding it for $352 shipped, what a beast.
-MSI X99S Gaming 7 / i7-5820 CPU
Everything look ok to you guys, any low numbers or something strange stand out? In comparing the tests to review tests using the same apps mine is slow in a few numbers, especially ATTO where a couple tests hit 400000+ at the 4.0 file size whereas mine is doing around 250000:
Well, I used the benchmark results above and compared them to scores that are posted on various review sites, and my SM951 is performing extremely well in the larger file read/writes but is getting killed in 4k tests...particularly high que depth 4k tests. It's about -45% lower than the marks should be in the following specific test spots:
Anvil 4K QD16 : Scores 98,473 IOPS, should be around 150,000 IOPS
ATTO - Everything Below 64.0 K: Scores are off on 0.5 through 64.0 by -30 to -50%, then magically catch back up to 100% where they should be by 256.0...odd)
CrystalDiskMark 4K Q32T1: Scores 337.2/308.8 while it should be around 512/450
AS SSD 4K-64Thrd: Scores 400/361 while it should be around 680/360
ASS SSD Copy-Benchmark, "Program": Scores 417 MB/s with a 3.37 s duration, should be around 780 MB/s with a 1.80 second duration
HD Tune Pro 5.50 4K random multi (32): 47202 IOPS, should be around 100000 IOPS
I'm running Windows 7, any particular OS setting or something that should be checked that would affect the smaller file transfers?
It's strange because what I've listed above are the only areas within each benchmark that were off, the other 20+ measurements within those tests were spot on. Wonder what I'm missing.
The AHCI version has been availble for a couple of weeks, so far I haven't seen an in stock listing for the NVMe version. Well, other than maybe the Ramcity listings.
All very odd. Purchased a new Samsung SM951 256GB AHCI M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 card which arrived a few days ago. Stuck it into the M.2 slot on a Asus x99 Deluxe board and fired up into the BIOS. Card was read out of the box and I was one happy bunny. I then checked on my current BIOS version (1305) and just as all good boys followed the advice on RAMCITY and upgraded the boards BIOS to the latest version 1702. Rebooted and the new M.2 drive had disappeared. After a good 5 hours of fiddling with the BIOS settings/resetting the BIOS x times and a good bit of g research discovered this page - spotted the 1602 compatibility note next to my board and hence installed the X99-DELUXE BIOS 1601... still no luck.
Can anyone tell me what the correct settings for this board should be? Most say just load up the default settings... but so far no good.
I have the ASUS X99-A and had the same issue with BIOS version 1702. I had to go back 1402. Also I'm certain you should only need to change one setting on your board, or at least that's been my experience with our various customers with ASUS X99 boards. Here's the notes from our M.2 compatibility list. This is the only thing I had to change to be able to boot both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 from a usb drive created using Rufus.
Set your CSM settings to 'UEFI Driver first' in the PCIe-EX storage section before you'll be able to successfully install Windows on either the XP941 or SM951. To get here, press F7 for advanced configuration, then navigate to the 'Boot' submenu, then down to CSM (Compatibility Support Module) and press Enter. Then, navigate to 'Boot from PCI-E / PCI Expansion Devices' and select 'UEFI Driver First' from the menu. (default selection is 'Legacy Only'). Then navigate to the Exit menu, select 'Save Changes and Reset'.
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