It's his motherboard chipset... He's basically running a top of the line machine, DDR4, i7, probably the most expensive mobo you can find as well... I looked at a few builds I want to do if I had the case, a basic build using x99 can easily hit $2500 for CPU/RAM/Motherboard alone.
It's his motherboard chipset... He's basically running a top of the line machine, DDR4, i7, probably the most expensive mobo you can find as well... I looked at a few builds I want to do if I had the case, a basic build using x99 can easily hit $2500 for CPU/RAM/Motherboard alone.
Basically what he said, X99 is the chipset and what we would I guess call the "platform" in the way I'm referring to it.
I'm currently running X79 actually because I plan to run this free rig to the ground (half way there sadly). She knows nothing about doing anything with this **** so if she decided to pull out a Titan X from my machine she would basically short everything out and owe me a new machine.
Basically what he said, X99 is the chipset and what we would I guess call the "platform" in the way I'm referring to it.
I'm currently running X79 actually because I plan to run this free rig to the ground (half way there sadly). She knows nothing about doing anything with this **** so if she decided to pull out a Titan X from my machine she would basically short everything out and owe me a new machine.
Or probably because Sandy Bridge still kicks it and I have no reason to upgrade unless I'm forced to. Seriously, #8 in 3dmark Ultra stomping even some 5960x that get way higher physics scores than my CPU. Plays all games fine, and from what I can tell PCI-E 2 16x isn't bottlenecking me at all. 4 year old platform proving we're not CPU bound on the Intel side.