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danielk34313960
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December 1, 2019
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Help with dual M.2 Nvme setup for After Effects/Premiere Pro.

  • December 1, 2019
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Hello!

I have an MSI Z390 Gaming Edge AC motherboard with an i9-990k, rtx 2080, 64 gigs of DDR4 ram.

 

I have my OS installed on a 500gb M.2 Nvme 970 Evo Plus, and a cache folder taking up half of a 1tb 970 Evo Plus.

 

My render times can be pretty bad. I've heard on some motherboards , or all, your read/write speeds are penalized for occupying both M.2 slots. Is there a way I can optimize the 2 drives for improvements in rendering speeds?

 

I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but the Adobe programs (I have the whole suite) are installed on the 500gb OS drive, but I cache everything on the 1tb where I also store media files.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you, 

Daniel

 

 

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Anonymous
December 4, 2019

What you're asking about is the DMI Bottleneck, you shouldn't be hitting that (unless you're working with super high bitrate footage, in which case you could alleviate the bottleneck by putting one M.2 drive in a PCIe slot. 

What media are you working with? How is your processor usage during rendering? 

Do you have the 11GB 2080? 

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danielk34313960Author
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December 5, 2019

Thanks for your reply JPooley_H

 

I have the 8GB 2080, however I'm not certain that's the limiting factor, because it seems that most of what I render relies heavily on the RAM and CPU. The bit rate I usually work with is set to 100, is that high? It's mostly 4k footage at 23.976fps. If it's not a bottleneck maybe my settings are off..

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Anonymous
December 9, 2019

Take a look in Task Manager

The CPU should be at >90%

GPU at <80% both 3D and VRAM, less than 20% Copy

If not, try the AJA Disk Speed test on your M.2: https://www.aja.com/products/aja-system-test

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