u/AgentFoxyTube

Hello, I'm confused which one might be the better option for me, both are Gen 4, 2 tb, has 5 year warranty from my local distributor, and very similar prices (I'm in south east asia).

What gets me thinking is that HIKSEMI Future has a slightly higher capacity (though by like 40gb), massively higher TBW, much higher read and write speeds and it's TLC compares to Kingston's QLC. Everyone knows kingston, so finding info on that was easy but despite the noticeable rated performance difference, there are hardly any reviews from big reviewers on the HIKSEMI Future..

I know these are absolutely bottom budget nvmes so i'm confused why they would make such a good nvme and price those two nearly the same despite the differences?

Does anyone have experience with HIKSEMI and if you don't, would you trust it?

If just looking at advertised performance I'd just get the HIKSEMI but i would like to see anyone's opinion on this!

I plan to heavily play games on it and store family photos.

Most the information i've found was on the website called Techpowerup

Both are in a very similar price, 2TB and PCie gen 4 and from the distributor, both have 5 years of warranty.

The HIKSEMI Future however, has faster read, write speeds and a substantially larger TBW, so I assume it lasts longer.

I plan to use it to store family photos and I will download and play games on it heavily, and won't plan to upgrade for about 6 or more years.

I know HIKSEMI is a Chinese surveillance company.

I would like all your opinions and if you have experience with either drive that would be much appreciated!

Edit: RESOLVED - Cause of issue, most likely new driver (26.5.1) instability, fixed by installing the previous driver version (26.3.1).

I downloaded the new driver update (latest one) and at first the games i played had no issue, but when i played valorant, my whole pc froze, then black screened so i restarted, i then checked the amd software to see what's up but now suddenly it says drivers incompatible and also i noticed my monitor stutters a lot as if it's running on a low refresh rate, i used DDU and reinstalled, fine, no problems but when i went to overclock and retry valorant, same issue happened.

Now, after installing the AMD drivers, after a restart it immediately said drivers are incompatible? I'm assuming theres some instability with the new drivers and i'm screwed since i can't go back to the previous version. And also maybe a windows issue too?

TL;DR - new driver update made my pc crash multiple times and I'm assuming it's because of my UV/OC ( -5% power, -55mv, and 2650mhz memory clock + fast timings) which was very stable during past driver version. I have to use DDU for every crash to reinstall drivers that somehow changed after the crashes...

My headset (Arctis 7+) has very poor default audio quality and so I use Sonar which makes everything sound normal, however, when I record game audio it only records one audio channel and doesn't record my discord audio, game audio and only my microphone. Is there any fixes for this? I would like it to record everything

TL;DR - Sonar doesn't let me record all audio but I need to use sonar otherwise default audio is very poor.