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 [Motherboard] MSI Motherboard supported NVMe device. Comes Testing of X99S GAMING 7 and Intel P3700
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I heard that MSI has updated BOIS recently. From now on, all the 9 Series motherboards support NVMe device. As a result, I borrowed a NVMe SSD Intel DC P3700 400GB from MSI and tested it
Intel DC P3700 have equipped with PCIe 3.0 x4 slot，capacity from 400GB to 2TB，what I borrowed is 400GB version just looks like normal PCIe SSD.
Why the SSD uses PCIe?
SATA 6Gb/s is fulfilled with traditional Hard Disk, but the speed is far from the SSD. With the PCIe, it helps to increase and extend the connection function. And help to improve the performance.。
AHCI compare to NVMe
While Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) interface has the benefit of legacy software compatibility, it does not deliver optimal performance when a SSD is connected via PCI Express bus. NVMe has been designed from the ground up, capitalizing on the low latency and parallelism of PCI Express SSDs, and fulfilling the parallelism of contemporary CPUs, platforms and applications. NVMe brings various performance improvements is the reason why it was burned
 The NVM Express, Inc. is directed by a thirteen-member board of directors selected by the promoter group, which includes Avago Technologies, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Intel, NetApp, Oracle etc. and develop by around eighty companies.
NVM Express, NVMe, or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCI), is a specification for accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) attached through the PCI Express (PCIe) bus.
The biggest advantage of NVMe is the lowest latency. Because of streamlined storage stack method, NVMe can command without registers. However, each command of AHCI needs four unbuffered registers and it will cause 2.5 μs data latency.
The other important revolution of NVMe is supporting more queues and this technology can enhance Muti-Core of CPU’s performance; the IOPS will not be influenced by single-core of CPU.
Enterprise market will be huge benefits from NVMe. NVMe technology could reduce the HD loading and extend the battery life indirectly.
In conclusion, PCIe hardware interface brings a high-bandwidth (sustained R/W performance), thank for native PCIe controller, it reduces latency controller (R/W performance under low QD upgrade, if it is directly connected to the CPU PCIe lanes , the performance is more obvious when the CPU overclocked). Also, NVMe software interface software is reduced latency of software.(random R/W performance of multi-core CPU under high QD)
Let’s comes to the actual testing. To avoid decrease the Link Speed of graphic card, we put P3700 at second PCIe slot.X99S Gaming 7 supported the NVMe from the BIOS version 17.6 last year.
Test basic：
CPU：Intel Core i7-5960X
Motherboard：MSI X99S GAMING 7
Memory：Avexir DDR4-2400 4GBx4
Graphics card：MSI GTX 660 TwinFrozr
HD：
Plextor PX-128M2P（system）
Intel DC P3700 400GB（Test 1）
Plextor PX-G512M6e（Test 2）
Power supply：SilverStone SX-600G
Cooler：Noctua NH-D14
OS：Windows 8.1 Update 3
The driver from intel official website is much more compatibility than the NVMe driver original from Win 8.1.
Download link : https://downloadcenter.intel.com ... =3810&DwnldID=23929
During the testing, we need to do security eraser several times, therefore; we need to download the Intel Data Center.
Download link : https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=23931
Device manager of P3700 NVMe device in Windows 8.1
SMART information should be checked from Intel Data Center. CrystalDiskInfo can’t read
Wear Leveling:
The following is benchmark test. ASSSD Benchmark and CrystalDiskMark software cannot push SSD performance to extreme level, so we use TxBench to test the performance of 32GB data transmission. TxBench in Win8.1 with native driver, sequential read is up to 1375MB/s and write is 1072MB/s. In 4K single QD test, there is not big difference between SATA3.0 and PCIe. In other side, the performance of 4K QD32 test, SATA3.0 is 50% better than PCIe.
After installing NVMe driver, the performance of sequential R/W is dramatically improvement. Especially in read function, the performance is directly double to 2800MB/s, achieving the highest level we never saw. It’s the real performance of this SSD.
As I mentioned before, native PCIe controller could decrease the latency of SDD. The R/W performance increase after CPU overclock to 4G as well.
Compare to PCIE 2.0 x2 AHCI by Plextor PX-G512M6e
overall review：
Conclusion:
I just introduce the overview of VVMe technology and the Intel P7300 basic performance. We found out that the advantages of NVMe comparing to the AHCI, it will be more and more common in the future.
MSI 9 series motherboards supported NVMe device. Although NVMe is not popular, MSI keep the scalability of the motherboards. In the next article, we will test P3700 under business environment to see the performance and advantage.

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Quote from: MSI-MKT on 17-March-15, 14:10:11
[Motherboard] MSI Motherboard supported NVMe device. Comes Testing of X99S GAMING 7 and Intel P3700
Here is third party news, please check PVEVA review as below
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It's PCEVA. got a typo lol. 
anyway it's a nice article from China media. thanks for the translation.