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So I know it's already a little too early to be jumping gun with regards to the X299 platform and the new i9 series CPUs that will be coming out for them, but given that a few of the X299 motherboards have been out and with the fact that the i9's showing their core and threads (no speeds yet apparently.) Are these looking promising for gaming at this point? I've stuck with X99 for a while now and have refused to switch back, namely because I like the motherboards that can utilize quad-channel RAM and I've just generally had the best performance on X99, but then again I also haven't tried an i7-7700k or anything from Sky/Kaby Lake.

A lot of these X299 motherboards just look sleek and then there's EVGA that kind of went the most innovative route adding a voltage display on the motherboard and a fan near the GPU tray that looks like it's an M.2 cooler, but also has me believe it can be a micro cooling fan for the second and third lane GPUs in that tray. Gigabyte kind of went over the top so far with LEDs on their motherboard, but I can't really say much since I did the same thing with my x99 Rampage V EDITION 10. Then ASUS and MSI just looks solid in terms of colour and what's on the board so far from just pictures.

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I'm just glad we're finally going to see an 8 core chip from Intel for less than $1000. Pretty annoying that the top of the line i9 is going to be $2000, an increase over what the already over-priced 6950x released at, but I guess it sort of makes sense since it has almost double the amount of cores.

The 8C/16T and 10C/20T CPU's will run at 4.3-4.5GHz boost, and I assume the 6C/12T will probably be pretty similar in clock speeds. 12, 14, and 16 core chips will probably be around the 4GHz mark, and the 18C/36T will likely be closer to 3.5GHz. The 7820x and 7920x look to be the most appealing X99 CPUs to me, an 8C/16T for $600, and a 12C/24T for $1200. Also, the i7-7740x is a really good move IMO. I see a lot of people complaining about 4 core chips on the HEDT socket, and I kind of understand where they're coming from with the i5, but an i7-7740x and and budget X299 motherboard is a great way to get a really nice CPU that's more in the high end consumer price range, but still have a lot of upgrade room. You can literally go from a 4C/T4 CPU to an 18C/36T CPU with nothing more than the new CPU, that is really cool IMO.

As for motherboards, I'm excited to see the more budget oriented X299 boards honestly. I'm hoping we see some nice lower end Strix models in the $250 range, and the MSI Tomahawk looks promising. I kind of like the LEDs on the I/O shield of the Aorus boards, but they really have gone over board with the LEDs. That LED honeycomb design on the EVGA X299 FTW K is pretty cool as well IMO.

I'm pretty excited for X299 tbh, obviously need to wait and see how pricing is for CPUs and motherboards after release, and see some benchmarks but it definitely looks promising. Thanks AMD for bringing back competition, otherwise I guarantee we'd be seeing another $1000 8 core chip lol.
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13 wrote I'm just glad we're finally going to see an 8 core chip from Intel for less than $1000. Pretty annoying that the top of the line i9 is going to be $2000, an increase over what the already over-priced 6950x released at, but I guess it sort of makes sense since it has almost double the amount of cores.

The 8C/16T and 10C/20T CPU's will run at 4.3-4.5GHz boost, and I assume the 6C/12T will probably be pretty similar in clock speeds. 12, 14, and 16 core chips will probably be around the 4GHz mark, and the 18C/36T will likely be closer to 3.5GHz. The 7820x and 7920x look to be the most appealing X99 CPUs to me, an 8C/16T for $600, and a 12C/24T for $1200. Also, the i7-7740x is a really good move IMO. I see a lot of people complaining about 4 core chips on the HEDT socket, and I kind of understand where they're coming from with the i5, but an i7-7740x and and budget X299 motherboard is a great way to get a really nice CPU that's more in the high end consumer price range, but still have a lot of upgrade room. You can literally go from a 4C/T4 CPU to an 18C/36T CPU with nothing more than the new CPU, that is really cool IMO.

As for motherboards, I'm excited to see the more budget oriented X299 boards honestly. I'm hoping we see some nice lower end Strix models in the $250 range, and the MSI Tomahawk looks promising. I kind of like the LEDs on the I/O shield of the Aorus boards, but they really have gone over board with the LEDs. That LED honeycomb design on the EVGA X299 FTW K is pretty cool as well IMO.

I'm pretty excited for X299 tbh, obviously need to wait and see how pricing is for CPUs and motherboards after release, and see some benchmarks but it definitely looks promising. Thanks AMD for bringing back competition, otherwise I guarantee we'd be seeing another $1000 8 core chip lol.


ASRock is releasing a mini-ITX X299 for the $280-$300 range based off this article. Even as a mini-ITX it still supports dual-channel for the RAM. It does look a little clunky, but that's still a pretty decent price point for someone starting off in X299 and are on a budget.

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The thing that got my attention about x299 was the fact they are opening the socket to even moderate budget builders with the socket supporting a decent variety of chips from the i5-i9 lineup. Will be nice to see the performance across all the chips.

Also as 13 said if it wasn't exactly for AMD coming back to the market prices would likely still be sky rocketing for a decent C/T ratio from Intel. Speaking of AMD, the Strix laptop caught my attention as well looks like they are making their way into the mobile platforms again.
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Mitochondria wrote The thing that got my attention about x299 was the fact they are opening the socket to even moderate budget builders with the socket supporting a decent variety of chips from the i5-i9 lineup. Will be nice to see the performance across all the chips.

Also as 13 said if it wasn't exactly for AMD coming back to the market prices would likely still be sky rocketing for a decent C/T ratio from Intel. Speaking of AMD, the Strix laptop caught my attention as well looks like they are making their way into the mobile platforms again.


I agree with you, some of these chips open up the game to people with lower budgets. I've been wanting to replace my system for a few months now, and these may be reason to. My original intention was to wait for the 10nm chips.
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TaigaAisaka wrote ASRock is releasing a mini-ITX X299 for the $280-$300 range based off this article. Even as a mini-ITX it still supports dual-channel for the RAM. It does look a little clunky, but that's still a pretty decent price point for someone starting off in X299 and are on a budget.

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I never really liked the mITX X99 motherboard, and I don't like the look of this one either. I'm wondering however, if we'll potentially see some more mITX offerings for the X299 chipset, especially since their are now i5 and i7 Core X chips that will be compatible with LGA2066 socket motherboards.

The X99 mITX board was pretty expensive iirc, so maybe if they're managing to get an mITX X299 board out there for $280-300, we should see some nice ATX X299 choices closer to the $200 range, maybe something along the lines of the X299 SLI Plus.
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After a few days 'm starting to wonder if AMD is going to be the way to go at this point giving Intel seemingly cucking themselves. Apparently only RAID 0 is going to be supported on X299 and if you want RAID 1, 10 or 5, you have to buy a $99 and up to $300 physical key to use those RAID features. I read a few things about their Pentium's also being locked to dual-core instead of quad-core unless you buy a key/code to unlock them. Also read a few things regarding PCI-E lanes not being fully supported like they should or supporting a lower amount, such as Kaby-Lake X only supporting 16 PCI-E lanes and it's not even concrete if it's going to be Dual-Channel or Quad-Channel; so much so that some of the board manufactures don't even know what the hell is going on anymore and Gigabyte had to suspend it's Lightning 3 support because everything was rushed. I haven't read too much into that, just a few things here and there from Reddit.

Then AMD's ThreadKiller is apparently going to cost about $850 where as Intel's i9-7980XE is costing about $2,000. We will probably have to wait and see what both AMD and Intel actually show for these things at launch but at this point it's seeming like AMD would be the better way to go and hop onto their X399 and whatever CPUs that come out, giving the way Intel is handling this launch.
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TaigaAisaka wrote After a few days 'm starting to wonder if AMD is going to be the way to go at this point giving Intel seemingly cucking themselves. Apparently only RAID 0 is going to be supported on X299 and if you want RAID 1, 10 or 5, you have to buy a $99 and up to $300 physical key to use those RAID features. I read a few things about their Pentium's also being locked to dual-core instead of quad-core unless you buy a key/code to unlock them. Also read a few things regarding PCI-E lanes not being fully supported like they should or supporting a lower amount, such as Kaby-Lake X only supporting 16 PCI-E lanes and it's not even concrete if it's going to be Dual-Channel or Quad-Channel; so much so that some of the board manufactures don't even know what the hell is going on anymore and Gigabyte had to suspend it's Lightning 3 support because everything was rushed. I haven't read too much into that, just a few things here and there from Reddit.

Yeah, X299 does just look really messy. Kaby X looks stupid. It's a good idea, however, the i5 is stupid. 4 core, 4 thread chip doesn't belong on HEDT. The i7-7740x could be a good option, if it weren't only like $50 less than the 6 core 7800X, which would actually have full X299 support anyway.

TaigaAsaka wrote AMD's ThreadKiller

Lol, it's ThreadRipper but honestly, close enough hahah.

TaigaAsaka wrote Then AMD's ThreadKiller is apparently going to cost about $850 where as Intel's i9-7980XE is costing about $2,000. We will probably have to wait and see what both AMD and Intel actually show for these things at launch but at this point it's seeming like AMD would be the better way to go and hop onto their X399 and whatever CPUs that come out, giving the way Intel is handling this launch.

To be fair, I very much doubt AMD's 16 core will cost $850. Then they'd have to have their 10 core, 12 core, and 14 core options ranging from $500-$850. That's quite a small gap to fit more than 3 CPUs, potentially as much as like 7 CPUs? That just doesn't make sense to me. Also, X399 definitely is going to have it's share of issues and looks pretty messy itself. It does look like it could be significantly less messy than X299 though lol.
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just looking at the boards you can tell they really have stepped them up, and they have made great use of the rgb layout
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TaigaAisaka wrote After a few days 'm starting to wonder if AMD is going to be the way to go at this point giving Intel seemingly cucking themselves. Apparently only RAID 0 is going to be supported on X299 and if you want RAID 1, 10 or 5, you have to buy a $99 and up to $300 physical key to use those RAID features. I read a few things about their Pentium's also being locked to dual-core instead of quad-core unless you buy a key/code to unlock them. Also read a few things regarding PCI-E lanes not being fully supported like they should or supporting a lower amount, such as Kaby-Lake X only supporting 16 PCI-E lanes and it's not even concrete if it's going to be Dual-Channel or Quad-Channel; so much so that some of the board manufactures don't even know what the hell is going on anymore and Gigabyte had to suspend it's Lightning 3 support because everything was rushed. I haven't read too much into that, just a few things here and there from Reddit.

Yeah, X299 does just look really messy. Kaby X looks stupid. It's a good idea, however, the i5 is stupid. 4 core, 4 thread chip doesn't belong on HEDT. The i7-7740x could be a good option, if it weren't only like $50 less than the 6 core 7800X, which would actually have full X299 support anyway.

TaigaAsaka wrote AMD's ThreadKiller

Lol, it's ThreadRipper but honestly, close enough hahah.

TaigaAsaka wrote Then AMD's ThreadKiller is apparently going to cost about $850 where as Intel's i9-7980XE is costing about $2,000. We will probably have to wait and see what both AMD and Intel actually show for these things at launch but at this point it's seeming like AMD would be the better way to go and hop onto their X399 and whatever CPUs that come out, giving the way Intel is handling this launch.

To be fair, I very much doubt AMD's 16 core will cost $850. Then they'd have to have their 10 core, 12 core, and 14 core options ranging from $500-$850. That's quite a small gap to fit more than 3 CPUs, potentially as much as like 7 CPUs? That just doesn't make sense to me. Also, X399 definitely is going to have it's share of issues and looks pretty messy itself. It does look like it could be significantly less messy than X299 though lol.


Made a little mistake as I forgot to link the article I read about it. It mentions their entry level 16-core apparently/rumoured to be costing about $850. I'm taking it with a grain of salt, even if it's a little off, but I still see AMD pricing it very aggressively against Intel. At the same time though, I wouldn't doubt if x299 and x399 motherboards start at the $400 range, with the mini-ITX boards of course being cheaper, but those will more than likely be a little scarce for now.

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Nvidia-980 wrote just looking at the boards you can tell they really have stepped them up, and they have made great use of the rgb layout


Truth be told, I'm starting to stray away from RGB. I've been with RGB for like 3 years now and it's starting to get stale. I've normally done builds with colours that you wouldn't get from single lightning on most motherboards such as pink, purple, orange, ect. Now I'm just wanting to get a board that has minimal LEDs on it such as the ROG STRIX x299 or the EVGA X299 Dark; if I want to do custom colours again, I could still use the LEDs on those boards, have the cables painted and then RAM or anything else, could take apart and use metallic spray paint for something such as black and gold theme going. Hell, I've even started turning the LEDs off my keyboard now lol. Whether I go with x299 or x399, I think I'm going to go for a minimalist look seeing how tempered glass cases are looking nice as of late and I feel having less of a light show inside them looks better in my opinion. Either way, I'm liking both x299 and x399, but as 13 has stated, both look messy right now, with Intel really needing to get things in order, seeing how motherboard manufactures don't even know what the hell is going on, which makes it seem Intel rushed the new chipset and their 18-core CPU without any clock speeds because they needed something to try and "tame" AMD right now.
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