x99 gaming machine

Hi ty. budget between 500-600 for the cpu, mobo, and ram. The original board I was looking at was the evga X99 Micro2 X99, is the gigabyte X99M Gaming 5 same in performance and reliability?.
 
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Could someone help regarding the gigabyte motherboard in the bundle. just a few questions will I get the full advantage of m.2 speeds and is USB 3.1 anything I will miss. also what speed ram would I need to overclock the 5820 to around 4.2-4.4 thank you.
 
Well m.2 requires some of your PCI-E lanes, so provided you are using just 1 graphics card (without looking at the board I guess it can only fit 1?) then you will have spare PCI-E capacity for an M.2 drive.

regarding USB 3.1 I personally don't have any devices that can make use of it, so that's going to be a personal preference.

Regarding RAM, I have only got some 2133 stuff and don't have any problems reaching beyond 4.0GHz if I wanted to, I just keep it at that speed to have it nice and cool/quite.
 
Hi thank for your reply. In a review it said "Only a 10Gbps M.2 connector " would that mean I would have to use a pci-e slot for a m.2 instead of the one provided on the board.

thanks
 
My knowledge on M2 drive is a little limited, however, I believe that the connector is an "m2" type, and they have their own ports on the motherboard, they just require some of your PCI-E bandwidth to operate.
 
DazQ87 said:
My knowledge on M2 drive is a little limited, however, I believe that the connector is an "m2" type, and they have their own ports on the motherboard, they just require some of your PCI-E bandwidth to operate.
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The Gigabyte board M.2 slot is connected to the chipset so it only runs at x2. The faster slots use the pci-e lanes and run at x4.
 
icequake said:
Hi thank for your reply. In a review it said "Only a 10Gbps M.2 connector " would that mean I would have to use a pci-e slot for a m.2 instead of the one provided on the board.

thanks
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Yeah Gigabyte has a 10Gbps connector rather than the faster 32Gbps connector.

I don't know how it affects SSD performance so you would have to look for benchmarks etc.
 
Hi need some more help. I still cant make my mind up between skylake and x99. trying to find a better more upto date x99 micro board could someone tell me if the evga micro 2 is any good and what is evga like regarding rma. many thanks
 
HI could someone choose which board to go for between the two below. is asrock better then they use to be?. planning to buy for the weekend. thank you

ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer/3.1 Micro ATX Motherboard
evga micro 2
 
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