Kelvin Cording

December 2014

Building A Performance PC

Part 1

• X99 Motherboard

• CPU Intel Haswell – E

• DD4 Memory

• M.2 SSD

• GTX 970 Video Graphic Card

• Case/ Cooling

Basic Components

X99 Motherboards

Based on Intel X99 Chipset.

Brands – MSI, Asus, Gigabyte, Asrock, etc

Intel X99

Chipset

CPU Core i7 - 5930K

SATAPCI e

PCI e Lanes

A lane is composed of two differential signaling pairs, with one pair for receiving data and the other

for transmitting. Thus, each lane is composed of four wires or signal traces. Conceptually, each lane is

used as a full-duplex byte stream, transporting data packets in eight-bit "byte" format simultaneously

in both directions between endpoints of a link. Physical PCI Express slots may contain from one to 32

lanes, more precisely 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16 or 32 lanes. Lane counts are written with an "×" prefix (for

example, "×8" represents an eight-lane card or slot), with ×16 being the largest size in common

use.[8]

ASUS X99 Motherboard

PCIe Slots

PCIe Allocation

Multiple High Performance

Video Cards

IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second)

Benchmarking Computer Storage

Samsung 850 Pro 512GB 2.5 inch 7mm SSDSamsung XP941 512GB M.2 PCIe x4 80mm SSD

Case - Lian – Li D600 Cooling NZXT Kraken X61

Video Graphic Card

Come back in 2015 to see - Part 2