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You'd need a motherboard with a 6gb SATA.

There are too many to name one specifically.

CCP is the bottleneck... Your PC well be old by the time you get WiS.

The main selling point for 6gb SATA on a motherboard is so you can use a SSD properly.

The reason you don't hear that said about any other component is because it's the most important bottleneck, by far. Fixing it would improve performance much more than everything you mentioned combined. You probably even know that. If the person has the funds, then by all means, they should just go out and buy a whole new system, but it didn't sound like that's what they wanted to do.

And you're talking about CPUs that would also require a motherboard with a 6gb SATA in order to perform at the speed desired, and acting like the motherboard isn't important. If he runs out and follows your advice to buy a CPU, it'll still be seriously bottlenecked by the older 3gb SATA motherboard, and again, you probably know this.

~Clarifications~

Price is no object
This is not for gaming
The computer needs to be able to actually utilize 6Gb/s transfer rates.
OBVIOUSLY the motherboard needs to be SATA 3 capable.



The main problem I am running into myself is finding components like RAM, CPU, etc.
I will reiterate that I do not have very good math skills and I have no idea how to convert mhz to Gb/s. However the question remains, if it is possible to build a system that has a 6Gb/s Push all the way through then How?

8GB of RAM is pretty much standard on gaming rigs these days, even though nothing really uses that much yet.

After you find a motherboard you like, look for CPU's with the same chipset that are recommended for it.

What you are looking for is a Motherboard with a PCIe 3.0 interface on it. If you have that, then the motherboard can handle the data throughput. If you have a CPU which is capable of enabling PCIe 3.0, then the CPU can handle it. CPUs have a bandwidth capability, just like anything else to, and you can find Intels on ark.

As linked, you are looking for a 3rd generation processor. Second generation doesn't have the capability. Intels 'Northbridge' is on the CPU now, so the only chipset you have to worry about is the Southbridge, or storage controller and that will be essentially as advertised capability on the motherboard.

I'm not sure about AMD anymore, but generally assume you will run into multiple potential bandwidth issues if you go that route.

Basically, if you use Intel, all you need to avoid the bottleneck is the appropriate hardware for the job. RAM is maybe a small exception, but DDR3 used on the hardware in question is of minimum specification and aside from overclocking, doesn't exceed 1333MHz. That means that without an OC, your system hardware including RAM, will pretty much perform as expected consistently.

Obviously, if you check the ark, you'll find bandwidth specifications for the CPU along with other detailed specifications. This will give you an idea of what the CPU can handle, but it is also fairly standard in the LGA 1155 socket CPUs: 25.6 GB/s.

On your board, you are looking for more capable PCIe lanes. Assuming you don't use them all for GPUs, you shouldn't choke your bandwidth on Storage. It's basically a balancing act, but a good motherboard should be more than capable of handling a GPU and 2-4 SDDs without any real issues.

Anything you plug into a PCIe slot uses bandwidth, and your SDDs or HDDs are using some of those lanes too. This is why more capable set ups rely on a board with more capable PCIe lanes. More is better, provided you don't try to stuff everything onto the same lanes anyway.

It can get a bit complicated if you're really trying to squeeze every last bit out of it, but you probably won't need to even bother unless you are benchmarking and loading everything for it. So really, it depends on your intended use for it and your expectations.

Hard to answer this question in any short detail, or summarize how you could go about getting exact capabilities out of a system with specific hardware for one purpose or another.

Much easier to just suggest 3rd Gen. i5, a mid-to-high end motherboard supporting PCIe 3.0, a PCIe 3.0 GPU, 4-16 GB of 1600MHz*(*OC) RAM with Heatspreaders, (Kingston KHX, Patriot, Corsair, G.Skill,, Mushkin, or whatever.), your SDDs in either a pair mirrored or 4 mirrored and Striped in RAID 1+0, a decent PCIe Soundcard, and whatever you like to go with it.

edit: Also,your SSD Read and Write speeds are somewhat more important than the SATA speed itself. 540 MB/s Read for example, is what you will actually be looking at as your maximum throughput for read speed on average with newer SSDs.. About the same for Write speeds.

Thank you!
You have been very helpful.

FYI PCI-E SSDs can go to several GBp/s Transfer speeds. One of the SSDs I am looking at is 2-3 grand and fits in a PCI-E slot. It has a transfer rate of 1GB/s. Obtaining a SSD that by itself does 6~Gb/s is not the hard part. You won't find them on newegg but that dose not mean they can't be bought by civilians.