Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion, Budget Overclocker?

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Bjorn3D checked out the Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion, Budget Overclocker?

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When you?re looking at the 2011v3 Haswell E CPU family, nothing about it is inexpensive. The entry-level CPU is about $390 and it doesn't even feature 40 full PCI-E lanes. The lowest tier CPU has 28 PCI-E lanes and you have to go to the second tray CPU, the Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.5GHz, to get full PCI-E lanes. So for a fully functional 40 PCI-E lane CPU, we are looking at $560 smackers. Decent air cooling will set you back around hundred bucks if you want to overclock. Sixteen gigabytes of quality, high-speed DDR4 memory runs in the $300 dollar range. Just the CPU, CPU cooler and memory means that we are just short of
$1,000. If you are looking for a Champion Overclocker but don't want to break the bank the Gigabyte X99 SOC come in at $300 when you can find it on the shelves.
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