My Monster Rig

[A11]

My monster rig has these kind of monster specs:

Each Part Is VERY Carefully Chosen! (Tell me how you think of it)

 

Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor

 

Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

 

Asus X99-DELUXE ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard

 

Kingston 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory

 

Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive

 

Samsung XP941 Series 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive

 

(2 x) EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card

 

Corsair Air 540 ATX Mid Tower Case

 

EVGA SuperNOVA 1000G2 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

 

(2 x) Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition 37.9 CFM 120mm Fan

 

(3 x) Corsair Air Series AF140 Quiet Edition 67.8 CFM 140mm Fan

[Cactu]

get a titan x instead of two 980's

[A11]

get a titan x instead of two 980's

Is it out?

[GhostWindGamer]

Is it out?

it's been out for quite a while

[Untouchable]

Is it out?

Been out for a while man, keep up. 

[A11]

Alright, Alright, getting the titan x ! 

[slightlyjaded]

If I was building my rig today I'd be looking for a SM951, instead of the xp941. Those NVMe drives are slightly psychotic.

 

Also My take on the hybrid drives is that they're there as a single drive solution for using an SSD to cache to an old school platter drive. You could achieve faster results  IMO by making a small partition in a better quality SSD, and using that to cache for a far cheaper, and probably better quality hard drive.

[A11]

Which one should I get, these are the options I am given with:

EVGA 12G-P4-2990-KR $999.99

Asus GTXTITANX-12GD5 $999.99

EVGA 12G-P4-2992-KR $1102.98

Asus 90YV0810-U0NA00 $999.99

If I was building my rig today I'd be looking for a SM951, instead of the xp941. Those NVMe drives are slightly psychotic.

Also My take on the hybrid drives is that they're there as a single drive solution for using an SSD to cache to an old school platter drive. You could achieve faster results IMO by making a small partition in a better quality SSD, and using that to cache for a far cheaper, and probably better quality hard drive.

If You were talking about these, I would TOTALLY wait for them!

SM951 (NVMe):

• Form Factor: M.2 2280
  
• Capacity (GB): 256, 512
  
• Host Interface: PCI-Express 3.0 x4
  
• Flash: Samsung 16nm MLC (verified visually)
  
• Peak Read Sequential Performance: 1.08, 1.17 GB/s *
  
• Peak Write Sequential Performance 800, 931 MB/s *
  
• Peak Random Performance Reads: 120k, 122k IOPS
  
• Peak Random Performance Writes: 60k, 72k IOPS
  
• Physical Dimesions: 22 x 80 x 4 mm
  

The stats you're quoting actually look like the performance of the non-NVMe part (they're not much of a step up from my xp941). There's two different versions of the sm951. The speeds I've seen off the NVMe part are closer to 2GB/s reads.

Source: http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA5-1884ENW

[slightlyjaded]

 

If You were talking about these, I would TOTALLY wait for them!

 

SM951 (NVMe):

• Form Factor: M.2 2280
• Capacity (GB): 256, 512
• Host Interface: PCI-Express 3.0 x4
• Flash: Samsung 16nm MLC (verified visually)
• Peak Read Sequential Performance: 1.08, 1.17 GB/s *
• Peak Write Sequential Performance 800, 931 MB/s *
• Peak Random Performance Reads: 120k, 122k IOPS
• Peak Random Performance Writes: 60k, 72k IOPS
• Physical Dimesions: 22 x 80 x 4 mm

 

The stats you're quoting actually look like the performance of the non-NVMe part (they're not much of a step up from my xp941). There's two different versions of the sm951. The speeds I've seen off the NVMe part are closer to 2GB/s reads.

[Zhuocheng]

Anyone tell me what graphics card out of these I should get?

any of them should be fine. If I were you, I would take the second one

[A11]

Source: http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA5-1884ENW 

 

The stats you're quoting actually look like the performance of the non-NVMe part (they're not much of a step up from my xp941). There's two different versions of the sm951. The speeds I've seen off the NVMe part are closer to 2GB/s reads.

Could you show me a link to that 2GB of read?

[slightlyjaded]

Anyone tell me what graphics card out of these I should get?

While I wouldn't put it past a manufacturer to tinker with a titan in house to see what it can really do, as far as I'm aware the only way you'll get a titan is as a reference design. Buy from a manufacturer you trust, the price difference should be either negligible, or non-existent.

Could you show me a link to that 2GB of read?

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/PCIe-SSD-Roundup-Samsung-SM951-NVMe-vs-AHCI-XP941-SSD-750-and-More

While I hate linking to a direct competitor's website, until linus can get these sorts of parts for internal testing I'm stuck. BTW, these guys quote about 1.5GB/s. I saw some prerelease engineering samples tested somewhere that were recording higher (Cannot remember where, was about 3 months ago)

[A11]

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/PCIe-SSD-Roundup-Samsung-SM951-NVMe-vs-AHCI-XP941-SSD-750-and-More

While I hate linking to a direct competitor's website, until linus can get these sorts of parts for internal testing I'm stuck. BTW, these guys quote about 1.5GB/s. I saw some prerelease engineering samples tested somewhere that were recording higher (Cannot remember where, was about 3 months ago)

Used the same site

Anything I could improve?

[XplosiveNoctua99]

Alright, Alright, getting the titan x ! 

Get 2

[Flurr]

Why would you get a Titan X?  I thought that 980s in SLI are better than just one...