Gigabyte ga-x99-sli and Samsung 950 pro

[nikoli707]

Im anticipating a promo/deal on a 5820k in the $270-320 range, and i see x99 boards going for extremely cheap now $110-150

From what i quickly gathered the cheap gigabyte x99sli board cannot run the 950 pro at full spec speed out the box. But some have used adapters? i believe its a pcie x4 adapter.

What does all this entail? Is there a better x99 board to get instead that has support? Ive read some reviews of the 950pro and its older brother and boy do they get hot(throttling yuck). So it seems some adapters may be the way to go anyways. I imagine much of this is new but future adapters will have nice fans/cooling options to mitigate the heat/throttling.

Im just kinda new to this m.2/2280 and nvme and what it means.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

The ASRock X99 Extreme4, either mATX or ATX will SLI and run a x4 PCIe M.2. That's about the cheapest board. Cheaper boards, like the SLI and Gaming 5 lack the M.2 slot you want. Make sure that the lane allocation leaves enough for x8 x8 SLI, if that is your intention.