Review: MSI MEG Z490I Unify

by Tarinder Sandhu on 3 August 2020, 14:01

Tags: MSI, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

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Storage Tests

The usual caveat about PCIe 4.0 applies here. The Core i9-10900K cannot do it; that is why the M.2 performance is so much slower than the same drive in the X570-based Asus Crosshair VIII Hero WiFi.

It's useful to know that putting the NVMe SSD underneath the heatspreader shaves 8°C off peak temperature during a copy torture test compared to running the drive bare. In other words, use the primary heatsink if at all possible.