Hey all,
I just want to get people's opinions on was it a mistake to buy a X99 motherboard since we now know when X299 is coming i only brought this motherboard one month ago.
I have been thinking maybe it was a mistake.
X299 motherboards are coming 2H 2017 maybe i could have waited but oh well.
From looking at different posts about the X299 motherboard, i'm not that sure if it's a bigger improvement over X99.
TBH atm are we using all of the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0?
There is always something new coming out, don't worry about it.
I'm still using an X58 board and really have no reason to upgrade.
It depends... What have you bought?
There are reasonable boards for reasonable price, then there are boards for 500$, that offer nothing better than the 250$ ones, other than RGB for example.
Otherwise no, it was not a mistake...
2H 2017 could mean between Christmas and New Year's day... Keep in mind the processors will be pricy with may be 5-6% performance bump over the X99 processors, with not really any extra features on the platform, because there haven't been made any major advancements in technology since X99...
Yeah, my point exactly.
Seriously, it's not a big loss, if any. X99 remains the richest features wise platform, even after X370 or whatever it was from AMD comes out, X99 will still remain the features richest platform.
Nope, not really. I mean there were some differences in TitanXp between 3.0 x16 and 3.0 x8, in some cases x8 being faster... Seen a benchmark somewhere, can't remember where, too lazy to search...
We know Nvidia GTX 2080Ti is coming as well...
Yeah i know just look at the Z270 the Z170 weren't even out for that long.
I brought a EVGA X99 Classified it was cheaper to buy it from America and get it shipped over to Australia saved me about $225.00.
Yeah it just doesn't look like it's going to be a big improvement over the X99, The only reason why i'm going with the X99 motherboards cause Intel doesn't pull the kind of shit like they do with the Z motherboards yeah sure they come out with refresh Motherboards plus i'm just getting fed up with spending money out on my system trying to get things the way i want been doing it for the last 4 years or so.
And i want a system that is going to last for at least 5 years if not more and still can do what i want which i think the X99 line can do that.
Why did i ask...
All i can say is lol.
I guess you had a feeling it was a EVGA motherboard but you didn't know which model tho.
x99 40 pci e lanes. x299 24-44 pci e lanes. the ipc will likely be the same with a small bump in clock speed. the 6 core will only have 24 pci e lanes so unless you want to spend thousands on the 10 core you would get a downgrade on pci e lanes. x299 isnt worth waiting for, but maybe zen will be.
8 core high end Zen - 24 lanes... 20 CPU, 4 chipset - X380...
16 - GPU, 4 - NVME PCIE SSD YMCA NSA WTF LOL, 4 - whatever else...
long ago when the zen leaks started showing up, there was rumored to be a 8, 16, and 32 core zen cpus. the 8 and 32 got confirmed already (128 lanes for the 32 core) and maybe the 16 core is real too.
No, i mean that's confirmed... The motherboards are surfacing, and i think it was 24 lanes for the high end chipset X380 i think it was... That is one of the main complaints of some tech people... I don't have enough lanes for tripple PCI-e ssd and quad sli at the same time...
Not a mistake at all.
X99 is still a very sollid platform to jump on.
Infact i´m gonne jump on it aswell.
X299 we dont know wenn it will come out, maybe end of this year.
The main improvements on X299 boards will be that the dmi interface between the cpu and chipset will be dmi3.0 instead of dmi2.0 on current X99 boards.
This basicly means more pci-e bandwidth between cpu and chipset.
Next to that the chipset itself will have more chipset pci-e lanes,
So you will basicly have a bit more connectivity options trough the chipset pretty much.
We probably might see some boards with more connectivity options.
In terms of cpu raw performance there wont be that much of a diffrence most likely.
Unless you really would benefit from having more chipset lanes, then X299 could be interesting for you.
But that will most likely be pretty much the only benefit that X299 will have.
And that Skylake-X cpu´s will probably come with slightly higher clocks out of the box.
That i what i was looking for, Thanks for that.
Now the next thing is i have to work out which CPU that i want.
BUT SKYLAKE-E DAAANMMITTT
I've been thinking of going from z97 to z99
Depends on the OS you plan on running. The Broadwell-E CPUs "require" Windows 10. If you plan on using Win7 or 8.1, I'd suggest sticking to Haswell-E (5820K, 5930K, 5960X)
nope. you're wrong
X99 means you can run Windows7.
Better to buy it now than in 3 years when it's "ohh look how cheap these haswell-e CPUs are", but the motherboards are the same price as now, or more
Technet disagrees with you. X99 works with Win7, but the Broadwell-E CPUs need Win10 for their full functionality.
They are talking about Skylake, not Broadwell.
Broadwell-E is a previous generation, even though the chips have a 6xxx product number.
Broadwell-E should work fine with Windows7 indeed.
The main issues with Windows7 is Skylake and newer platforms.
But even on Skylake and newer its possible to install Windows7.
It will just be a littlebit more fiddly.
Windows7 by default does not support usb3.0 natively because no xhci support,
but you can modify your iso for that.
Windows7 also does not support nvme, but you can install drivers for it during install.
Most X99 motherboards still have usb2.0 and / or a ps2 combo port,
so basicly you shouldnt really run into any issues.
I stand corrected. Looks like they didn't really answer the OP's question over there then, and I jumped on the answers without reading all the linked articles, My bad, I'm on a roll with these stupid mistakes lately.