Asus ROG gl502vs with PCIe NVMe??

Hello. Recently thinking of buying a asus gl502vs gtx 1070 and upgrading it with a 512gb samsung 950 pro PCIe NVMe and 2.5 1TB samsung 850 Evo from Xotic Pc. My question, is it even worth the money to put an PCIe NVMe in it?

 

I would say no. In real world applications its benefits are fairly limited, in particular boot times and game load times aren't significantly altered. They are more something i'd recommend to people who have a huge/unlimited budget where they need the absolute best. Even SATA ssds are fairly similar, so I have a hard time recommending a 300 dollar 1TB 850 evo when you could buy a $240 1TB X400 on your own. You could nearly afford 3 for the price of the the two your looking at. I highly highly recommend ssds over hard drives, but once you get to a certain point diminishing returns kick in extremely hard. The 950 Pro crushes it in certain applications like unzipping files, but in most normal usage scenarios I don't think it justifies the cost for people looking for value.

For example:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-950-pro-ssd,4313-5.html

Check out the first image slideshow. Those are all game load times, and they are all almost identical.

 

Wow. There isn't much of a difference at all only prices. Thanks for the info. Definitely reconsidering about the upgrades, since boot and read times are them same.

 

There are differences, and its worth looking into further if you are going to be spending most of your time doing something specific, but if your daily usage will be mostly something along the lines of web gaming, web browsing, using MS Office etc... Its seriously not worth it. I think you'll be happier if you get either more storage, or just save your money for something else. Intel has some new ssd tech coming out soonish, maybe that'll be more of a real world performance breakthrough.