Benchmarks II
The synthetic benchmarks don't always paint the most accurate picture. When copying two large directories weighing in at a total of 12.3GB and comprised of 32,606 files, the SN750 does a decent-enough job. It's better when we run the test straight again, in a cached state, where the drive takes top spot by a small margin.
Performance isn't so sharp in PCMark, but the fact remains the SN750 is a fast drive regardless.
The Final Fantasy benchmark accumulates the multiple scene-loading time across the benchmark, and a fast NVMe SSD should take less than 12 seconds.
Game Mode
Remember the Game Mode toggling we spoke about earlier. With it active, the Final Fantasy loading time drops to 11.418s, representing a mild improvement.
Going back to the first benchmark, CrystalDiskMark, having Game Mode active doesn't improve scores by more than the standard deviation of the test.
The drive's peak temperature, without specific motherboard M.2 heatsink cooling, is reported as 66°C in Game Mode (64°C in regular) when writing a 289GB (69,882-file) Steam folder over from another fast SSD inside our spacious, well-ventilated be quiet! Dark Base 700 chassis. The heatsink-clad version therefore makes sense in space-constrained, low-noise systems, assuming, of course, the motherboard doesn't have its own dedicated storage cooling.
