One of the big wishes from the community that we’ve heard loud and clear is that we need to move from PCMark 8 to PCMark 10.
Pcmark 10 vs update#
The move over to a new test system also gave us the chance to update and improve our test suite. That means each drive was secure erased and had its firmware updated if a newer build was available. We’ve been busy behind the scenes with the tedious task of re-testing many of the drives that we’ve been sampled over the past couple years.
Pcmark 10 vs windows 10#
Windows 10 Pro version 1909 was clean installed and setup without issue. So, we’ll be using Parted Magic ( $11 for the latest build or $39 per year) on a USB Drive to secure erase all the drives we test.
Pcmark 10 vs series#
It seems that ASUS is still using that as a differentiation between the TUF and ROG series here in 2020. Since this is an SSD storage test system that is kind of a big deal and it was a feature ASUS first introduced back in 2013 on their ROG motherboard series. It has been a hot minute since we’ve used an ASUS TUF Gaming series motherboard on a regular basis, so we overlooked the fact that it does not support ASUS Secure Erase in the UEFI/BIOS. Luckily, everything came out great as it is fairly solid and the DDR4-3600 memory had no issues being setup on this ASUS X570 board. Our decisions seemed solid when we were piecing the build together, but you never really know how things will work out until you complete the build. You’ll notice that we did add a rear Corsair LL Series LL120 RGB fan to improve the chassis airflow and went with the AMD Wraith Prism LED RGB CPU cooler since it looked better. An image of the finished build can be seen below. Thermal throttling can impact SSD performance, so we’ll be doing all of our testing with the tempered glass side panel on this year. So, we built the new SSD test system for 2020 in a case not only to show thermal performance, but to also better mimic real world usage scenarios. Our previous test system was done on an open test bench, but we had people wanting to know about thermal performance inside an enclosure. The total build cost is around $1,250 and that seems like a fair price for a system of this caliber and it should also look good thanks to RGB everything. We went with the compact Corsair K63 mechanical keyboard ( $73.99 shipped) to keep the lab bench as open as possible and the M65 RGB Elite gaming mouse ( $39.99 shipped). All that was placed into the Corsair iCUE 465X RGB Black case ( $129.99 shipped) without issue. DRAM needs are fulfilled by a 16GB DDR4-3600 kit of Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB memory ( $159.99 shipped) and a Corsair RM750 power supply ( $119.99 shipped) powers the system. We went with the ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi) motherboard ( $183.99 shipped) and the ASUS ROG STRIX Gaming Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card ( $339.99 shipped). The AMD Ryzen 5 3600X runs $204.99 shipped and the Ryis $174.99 shipped. To power the system we picked the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-core, 12-thread processor as it along with the Ryare hands down two of the best selling 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs. The goal here is to have a system that relates to the average Do-It-Yourself (DIY) builder, gamer or enthusiast as we want the benchmark results to mean something. When building storage test platforms we always aim for the middle of the road. So, moving over to the AMD X570 platform for storage testing made sense for the site as we need to have relevant data for our readers on the products that are selling right now.
Rumor has it that PCIe Gen 4.0 will not be included on the upcoming Z490 motherboards that will be released when Intel 10th Gen ‘Comet Lake-S’ processors come to market later this year. Intel has not announced when they will release a desktop platform that supports PCIe Gen 4.0. AMD was the first company to offer PCI Express Gen 4.0 support with the introduction of the X570 platform in the middle of 2019 and it has been a hot topic ever since. With more PCIe Gen 4.0 drives getting ready to enter the market we figured that it was time to jump ship from Intel to AMD. One of the things that Legit Reviews has been working on behind the scenes this month is building up a new SSD test system for improving the way we benchmark storage drives.
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