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Cant believe it. Over the last two weeks I have missed NewEgg's auto-notify. Out of stock....so about an hour ago, just out of curiosity, since this week I have not received a notify, I went to their site. Looked up the 8700k and lo-and behold they showed one in stock. I immediately purchased it...thinking I am dreaming. :surprise:

 

I waited and received the email showing my purchase. I went back several minutes later and they showed....out of stock. Wow.....:cry:

 

I had lined up a system based on the 7700k but held off waiting for a little info on a power supply I wanted. Now I can redo all my parts to match the new CPU.

 

What mother board? I want to be able to run 4k so I will need hdmi 2.0. Not 1.4780'.

I also intend on getting a couple of ssd m-2.

 

I have two 1080ti's that I was going to put in my 6700k system to replace the 2 1080's. I built that system to replace the 3770k system that had 2 780's that got ruined when the water block leaked. Corsair. ( In a rush to replace the 780's a friend sold me his two Nvidia Titans..the 6GB ones. Same generation as the 780's) Also picked up 2 gtx780 cu11oc at a garage sale.

I have video cards coming out my ears. :lol:

 

Back to the motherboard...which one? Also, what is the best stable build with all modules/terrains and also for VR?

 

Laz :D

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For real SLI ??

 

Better get a WS-chipset with real 2x 16x lanes PCIe for your vid cards + some 4x'ers for NVMe direct CPU connection.

 

If you always run SLI ( for whatever reason )..I would go X299 or X390, either one...but no Client-Stupid-crippled_lanes-chipset imho. Those are for guys like me with a single GPU and no wishes to add cards into this mobo...and no multi NVMe , no 10Gbit LAN, etc... too few lanes everywhere.


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For real SLI ??

 

Better get a WS-chipset with real 2x 16x lanes PCIe for your vid cards + some 4x'ers for NVMe direct CPU connection.

 

If you always run SLI ( for whatever reason )..I would go X299 or X390, either one...but no Client-Stupid-crippled_lanes-chipset imho. Those are for guys like me with a single GPU and no wishes to add cards into this mobo...and no multi NVMe , no 10Gbit LAN, etc... too few lanes everywhere.

 

the 1080ti won't use all the bandwidth of an 8x pci-e 3.0 slot, so using two in 8x will be just as good as two in 16x...

 

that being said, the 8700K, or any CPU on any chipset for that matter, will be too slow to really make good use of two 1080tis, as just one 1080ti turns any cpu into a bottleneck.


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the 1080ti won't use all the bandwidth of an 8x pci-e 3.0 slot, so using two in 8x will be just as good as two in 16x...

 

that being said, the 8700K, or any CPU on any chipset for that matter, will be too slow to really make good use of two 1080tis, as just one 1080ti turns any cpu into a bottleneck.

 

I can agree with 8x being enough on 3.0 but if a 8700k or not is a bottleneck mainly depends on your pixel count. With 3 x 4k screens I doubt it will be the bottleneck, plus the more games support multicore the less relevant this odd truth becomes. Time and Pixels run against your point of view.

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I got the Gigabyte Aorus Ultra Gaming with my 8700K

I did have to update the BIOS to F6 to ensure memory stability

 

It is a decent enough featured mobo and not too expensive

some of the prices are too high for these boards Vs features

 

I would never buy an asus board, I have had 100's of PC systems come through my place

over the years, asus boards had more problems with them than all the other brands combined

 

Just make sure you pic RAM / M.2 that is compatible with your board


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I'm not sure that the resolution has an impact on the cpu. Number of objects affect the CPU, not the resolution (in the same aspect ratio). At very high resolution the GPU become your bottleneck, then the CPU work less. At low resolution the GPU is very fast, and the CPU can't feed him.

 

A tiny improvement between PCIe 3.0x8 to 3.0x16, and 3.0x8/8 to 3.0x16/16.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Titan-X-Performance-PCI-E-3-0-x8-vs-x16-851/

 

You can experience a decrease of performance notably when the game don't support SLI config..

https://us.hardware.info/reviews/7270/22/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-review-incl-sli-faster-card-for-the-same-price-gtx-1080-ti-slinperformance-per-game

 

In few words, get a Z370 on one 1080Ti. Turn off 2 cores (for DCS) and crank the others. :D


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I'm not sure that the resolution has a big impact on the cpu.

 

:D

 

 

it's the GPU that has to work far harder, CPU should remain more or less the same. If your card cant do 144fps but barely keep 60 it wont matter if i.e. a Threadripper 1950 "only" pruduces 112fps whereas a 8700k @ 5.2G may give 160fps...if the card can only does that much, the other higher 2nd limit is not your problem anymore..ping<-->pong..but upgrade GPU and ooops..your CPU is the bottleneck again.

 

One will always be the bad guy.

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I do use other software...and have found over the years that some take advantage of SLI and some do not. Its up to the programmer if they use various hooks into the specific API and if the producer wants that. Some titles mention it takes advantage of SLI others do but do not mention it. I know that in spite of DCS claiming in the past that they will endorse and use SLI in their up-coming titles, they backed off and now do not.

 

Direct x12 is suppose to take advantage of multi-CPU/GPU's if the software is written to those titles. Mentioned that DX12 will improve and programmers will use the added functions in the future.

 

Yes, I will have to research compatibility of ram and M-2 drives when I choose the mother board. I do want hdmi 2.0.

 

PCI lanes......? More the merrier. Chipsets....? 16 vs 8...lots of different opinions and graphs. What do you guys think of the EVGA Classified?

 

What other mother-boards have any of you had a headache using?

 

Thanks. Laz

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Asus mobo's for me all the way. Since my Intel Core 2 Due E6600 have always had Asus without issue. Currently have a 7 year old X58 Asus P6X58D-E saddled to a i7-950 and have overclocked this to over 4.2Ghz problem free. Asus also make great mobo manuals.

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I run Asus since my Pentium 166 at least, maybe even that 486 was an Asus....

 

Whenever I left Asus and bought MSI I got punished, last time last year.

 

I would maybe consider Gigybyte nowadays as an alternative, but Asus is just hard to beat with motherboards.

 

Lanes... well..it really depends on what you do and use. If you may add in cards like a soundcard, a Recoreder card, 10Gbit card, faster PCIe-NVMe at 8x or 16x at later times

then a Z270/370/X370 is not good. With your SLI you have pretty much used up all there is, any other card will run on the PCH that is already overkilled twice by 1 x NVMe and maybe 1-2 SSD's, 1 HDD and 1-2Gbit NICs.

 

You want MANY slots with MANY lanes to be connected to the CPU and not to the CHIPSET.

 

In a few years 10Gbit networks will be affordable but to add such a bandwidth hungry card in you need 4x, 8x for DualPort, 16x for Quadport cards. Even a single port card will void the idea as it needs as much as a NVME roughly and both have same as PCH, happy working ! That is a bottleneck of the finest kind by definition then.

 

If you want anything more than 2 GPU in 8x-8x you need more lanes that neither Intel nor AMD deliver in their Desktop Chipsets.

 

It even starts with 1 GPU only, I have 6 drives in my Z270. If I opt to add a NVMe I have to either get Sata-1 out, or Sata-5 + 6 or all three 1, 5, 6 and add 2 NVMe, but not all 6 drives plus 2 NVMe..NO...there are too few lanes available...IT IS 2017 and not Vesa Local Bus anno 1995. AMD and Intel are both to blame here.

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Am I the only one who answered that has an 8700K based system?

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Asus always

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I always bought Asus, this time I bought an MIS Z370 Tomawak. She has all the things I need.

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I've been using asus since my A7N8X-E Deluxe Athlon XP, i freaking loved that computer... still have the mobo, 2GB DDR ram, Nvidia 6800GS and 3200+ CPU in a box somewhere... would be awesome to rebuild it for a nice win98 retro gaming machine...

 

totally recommend asus...

 

before that I had a gigabyte motherboard and an athalon XP 2500+, but all the caps blew on the motherboard within a year... i think a lot of motherboards suffered from bad caps for a couple of years around that time, so it's probly not an issue anymore...

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Iam still rocking my olde gigabyte board from 2007 with a Q6600 as my media PC,

still got another gigabyte X58 with a i7 920 as my business PC going strong since 2008

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