startup-ext4 Intel Core i7-6700K testing with a ASUS MAXIMUS VIII HERO (3802 BIOS) and Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 4GB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. Samsung SSD 970 EVO: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS VIII HERO (3802 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 32GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB + 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 860 + 500GB Western Digital WDS500G2B0A + 32GB Patriot, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 4GB (1244/1500MHz), Audio: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio, Monitor: CG2420 OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 5.11.2-zen1-1-zen (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.38.3, Display Server: X Server, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4 (LLVM 11.1.0), Compiler: GCC 10.2.0, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Application Start-up Time 3.4.0 Background I/O Mix: Only Sequential Reads - Application To Start: LibreOffice Writer - Disk Target: /home sec < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO . 0.401 |==================================================