I purchased an Intel 750 PCIE NVME in hopes of fast performance. After installation I was entirely underwhelmed. Benchmarks support my lack of enthusiasm. My Benchmarks have something like 60% of the performance shown in reviews and other consumer benchmarks.
Intel 750 PCIe 400gb (4x Gen 3, see attached pic for confirmation)
Asus Rampage Extreme IV (x79 platform)
Not likely relevant:
64gb 2400mhz DDR3
3x GTX 780s SLI
3930K @ 4.75ghz
I have confirmed PCI speeds on my SLI cards using GPU-Z and that Intel SSD toolbox reports Gen 3 with 4x link. Latest drivers (no less than a month old, latest firmware installed). The device is slow. It doesn't even really outperform my Samsung 850 Pro 512gb SATA 3 SSD. What am I doing wrong?