Kelvin Cording

February 2015

Building A Performance PC

Part 2

• X99 Motherboard

• CPU Intel Haswell – E

• DD4 Memory

• M.2 SSD

• GTX 970 Video Graphic Card

• Case/ Cooling

Review

Installation to be completed with purchase and installation of

Gigabyte GTX 970 Video card

First Time Start Up

No Video Display

Next Steps

The ASUS X99 Motherboard provides many

hardware and software features to assist with

remedying problems.

Read the Manual !!!

Updating Bios

Without CPU or Memory installed and with power

connected insert USB key containing Bios files and

press the bios button.

M/B Controls

(including Q-Codes)

List of Q-Codes

No Video display on any

connector

Faulty video card -

RTM

Substitute with old

GTX 460

All now working ok.

Phew!!!

Over - Clocking

Overclocking is the process of forcing a computer or component to

operate faster than the manufactured clock frequency.

Pro -

Higher performance

Con –

• Higher voltages

• More power – higher temps

• System stability

• Components lifetime reduced

UEFI Bios

UFEI (Unified Extendable Firmware Interface)

a mini OS

Questions ?