Test setup

For this review, we are testing with an Intel Core i7 5930K processor at stock frequency, an EVGA X99 Classified motherboard, 16GB of Kingston HyperX DDR4 2666MHz memory modules, an EVGA Geforce GTX 970 graphics card and a SilverStone Strider 1500W power supply. The system is cooled using a Corsair H110 cooling system and the Samsung M.2 NVMe drive is installed into the motherboard’s Socket M 2280 slot above PCI-E lane 5. The installed OS is Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update build 14393.