i am building a new System. i play 0 games. what i need is fast compiling and stock/futures trading machine.
i am going to buy one of the x99 boards but i am leaning towards ASrock X99 Extreme6 or Gigabyte GIGABYTE GA-X99-GAMING G1 WIFI. but i can go for Asus X99-DELUXE.
nonetheless, for fast and future proofing, i am wanting to buy M.2 SSD. i have been reading up here http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-xp941-z97-pci-express,3826-5.html
questions:
1. they keep saying that "Then the XP941 jumps up a notch by peaking in excess of 1000 MB/s when we drop it onto ASRock's CPU-attached Ultra M.2 four-lane slot."
if i buy one of the above mentioned MOBOs with M.2. will i be able to take advantage of speed that this drive provides?
2. if i get the drive will i be able to hook up at least 4 27in screens with 2560 x 1440 resolution while assuring the GPUs run at PCI Express 2.0 16 ? how many GPUs will run at that rate?
3. on the last page (page 9) the article says "...NVMe won't make it into Intel's driver until the Rapid Storage Technology 3.7 release...".
now does that mean if and when its released i would be able to take advantage of it via some software / bios update?
4. here is the drive i found newegg. is this the same drive that is mentioned in the article? because the legend in the article says "Samsung XP941 M.2 Pcie Gen 3 x 4" however the spec on new egg says gen2. but read speed is at 1080MBs. while article seems to show speed above 12MBs.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147366
sorry i am hardware noob.
i am going to buy one of the x99 boards but i am leaning towards ASrock X99 Extreme6 or Gigabyte GIGABYTE GA-X99-GAMING G1 WIFI. but i can go for Asus X99-DELUXE.
nonetheless, for fast and future proofing, i am wanting to buy M.2 SSD. i have been reading up here http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-xp941-z97-pci-express,3826-5.html
questions:
1. they keep saying that "Then the XP941 jumps up a notch by peaking in excess of 1000 MB/s when we drop it onto ASRock's CPU-attached Ultra M.2 four-lane slot."
if i buy one of the above mentioned MOBOs with M.2. will i be able to take advantage of speed that this drive provides?
2. if i get the drive will i be able to hook up at least 4 27in screens with 2560 x 1440 resolution while assuring the GPUs run at PCI Express 2.0 16 ? how many GPUs will run at that rate?
3. on the last page (page 9) the article says "...NVMe won't make it into Intel's driver until the Rapid Storage Technology 3.7 release...".
now does that mean if and when its released i would be able to take advantage of it via some software / bios update?
4. here is the drive i found newegg. is this the same drive that is mentioned in the article? because the legend in the article says "Samsung XP941 M.2 Pcie Gen 3 x 4" however the spec on new egg says gen2. but read speed is at 1080MBs. while article seems to show speed above 12MBs.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147366
sorry i am hardware noob.