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Which Motherboard for i9-9980XE 18 cores

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Eddie Gonzalez

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my shopping cart is only missing the MoBo; Which MoBo do you recommend;

So far the following items have been added to my shopping cart;

1) CPU, intel, i9-9980XE 18 cores, 36 threads
2) GPU, NVIDIA Titan RTX, 4608 CUDA cores, 24GB GDDR6, 1350 Mhz base clock
3) SSD, Samsung 2TB
4) RAM, 128GB DDR4 4133, Corsair (8 x 16GB sticks)
5) ??? Motherboard ???
6) Fan, Noctua CPU fan

thank you !
Eddie
 
Asus ws x299 sage 10g, you get additional pcie lanes with d plx chip and its thunderbolt 3 ready Overclocking ready also.
 
Try to get a i9-7980xe instead of the 9980xe (easier to delid and overclock).
 
Solanke Olayinka said:
Asus ws x299 sage 10g, you get additional pcie lanes with d plx chip and its thunderbolt 3 ready Overclocking ready also.
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This is an excellent all-around board but if only doing 1 GPU its kinda overkill.
 
Greg M said:
Building a similar X299 system now to host the Titan RTX
debating i9-7980XE vs i9-9980XE...more opinions?
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Check the reviews about those 2 you mentioned.

When you want more options it might be wise to wait for CES 2019 jan 8..12
 
thank you all for inspiring my research.

I've added the following MoBo to my cart.

ASUS Prime X299-Deluxe II

Is there something about this MoBo that makes you want to talk me off the ledge?
Why should I hesitate any longer?

Tks
Eddie
 
Misha Engel said:
Check the reviews about those 2 you mentioned.

When you want more options it might be wise to wait for CES 2019 jan 8..12
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Thanks, unfortunately I need to build a system before 12/31.
The i9-9980XE is slightly cheaper right now...I thought I might be missing somthing.
 
Greg M said:
Thanks, unfortunately I need to build a system before 12/31.
The i9-9980XE is slightly cheaper right now...I thought I might be missing somthing.
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i9-9980xe is faster out of the box and the i9-7980xe is easier to delid and overclock.
The TR2990wx is a lot faster with rendering and unpacking zip files but I haven't seen its performance with 8k.R3D 5:1.

Buy a very good AIO-watercooler with the i9 because it get's very hot when overclocked.

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Misha Engel said:
You will need to delid if you want to reach 4.5 GHz all-core.
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I would shy away from overclocking and I would *definitely* not recommend de-lidding a perfectly good CPU for a marginal gain with OC. Stock clocks + stock temps = stability, longevity, less headaches
 
Asus x299 Deluxe is best for i9 hackintoch so far. The bios is great and easy to flush and set up from usb. The board is built for overclocking and have great resets etc. However it only holds two M2 slots and you loose one pcie slot for the tb3 card.

If running PC then the gigabyte x299 designare is much better not as good bios but decent and it got 3 M2 slots and more importantly dual built in tb3 ports.

The gigabyte mob is also easy to hack but the built in tb3 ports are a bit difficult to get running on osx. Works great for PC but on a hack it's easier to get a separate Skylake tb3 pcie card.

So depends what you will use it for but I would probably go for the gigabyte card if buying one. I got two of each and done quite a bit experimenting with both. And I think we will get the gigabyte to run osx properly very soon, then Asus only got the better bios and when all is working well that's not really something to care for.
 
Andy_Johnson said:
I would shy away from overclocking and I would *definitely* not recommend de-lidding a perfectly good CPU for a marginal gain with OC. Stock clocks + stock temps = stability, longevity, less headaches
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You can buy the I9 delided with waranty. And as they are really poorly built originally the gain is quite big without risking stability of you use good thermal paste and water cooler.


And yes do not get the noctua cooler. It's simply shit. 2 or 3 fan water-cooler and Grizzly thermal paste. And even if not overclocking I would still go for a delided version of the CPU almost same price and almost twice the speed and no hickups. Throttles at 30deg with the watercooler where as the stock one goes half speed and close to cooking with noctua fans.
 
I went with:
ASUS Prime X299-Deluxe II
CORSAIR HX Series HX1200
Intel Core i9-9980XE
CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 128GB (8 x 16GB) DDR4 3200
SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2 2280 1TB PCIe
LIAN LI PC-7NB
Qlogic QLE2562 PCIe x8 8Gbps Fiber Channel Dual Port HBA
Noctua NH-D15 Cooler
Titan RTX GPU

should have it together next week
 
Greg M said:
I went with:
ASUS Prime X299-Deluxe II
CORSAIR HX Series HX1200
Intel Core i9-9980XE
CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 128GB (8 x 16GB) DDR4 3200
LIAN LI PC-7NB
Qlogic QLE2562 PCIe x8 8Gbps Fiber Channel Dual Port HBA
Noctua NH-D15 Cooler
Titan RTX GPU

should have it together next week
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Change the cooler to something like this, well worth it. i9 gets to hot for the air coolers. Trust me I tested a few.


https://www.komplett.se/product/877...WMayCh2cnA-hEAQYASABEgJy0fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#


And no matter what get the grizzly thermal paste not the shit that comes with the Noctua.

Also what drive / drives will you use. The whole system runs better with a fast system drive. So avoid Sata and get a M2 drive, does not need to be a big one just to fit the the operating system.


If you interested I got a plug and play Hackintosh installation that for now works with everything but the RTX. I use it on similar builds and to date its the fastest machines I tested. Its pretty much a vanilla version of high sierra with just a few bends to get the standard thunderbolt 3 card and other stuff to kick. The only kinks, thunderbolt 3 works well but needs a total reboot with pulled power cable to find new drives or changes on the Thunderbolt chain and certain Tb2 drives can not be first on the chain.

The Tb 3 card to get that is the exact same board as used in the Imacs is the alpine ridge Gigabyte TB3 board. It also has dual connectors and will work with OSX vanilla install, no extra hack for the TB3 stuff. Does not cost much. Way better than the Asus stuff that does not have proper power etc.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gigabyte...derbolt-3-Certified-Add-in-Card-/132898004503

They play 8k in resolve like nothing in osx and the bios flush and setting works with multi boot for both Windows, OSX and Linux. So we use those as flames and for resolve on OSX and then the 3D guys can simply reboot and use them as fast render nodes for their Win 3D renders.
 
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