Posts in Cryptocurrency


8 GPU Ethereum Mining Rig

Posted on 16th Jun 2017 10:00:07 in Mining, Cryptocurrency

Using 8 x Sapphire Nitro+ RX580s to build a Ethereum mining rig.

M2 to PCIe x4

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How to Unlock the NVMe Performance on the Lenovo Y700

Posted on 23rd Feb 2017 08:14:31 in SSD, NVMe, Laptops, Cryptocurrency

In previous blog posts about the Lenovo Y700 where we added a high performance NVMe SSD in my case a Samsung 950 pro, others have since added Samsung 960 evo's and pro's. The draw back was that performance was capped at ~1600MB/s which leaves a fair amount of performance unavailable on these high performance SSD's. The issue was tracked down the DMI link speed being set to PCIe 2.0 speeds, this was what was causing the performance cap or around 1600MB. 

After Lenovo refused to change the setting, their is finally a work around to set the DMI link to full speed (PCIe 3.0) this fully unlocks the performance for these SSD's. Thanks to our friends over at MDL.

The unleashed performance of the 950 Pro 256GB (rated at 2200MB read 900MB write)

Unlocked 950 Pro performance

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