Possible new build - Which Intel CPU & Chipset

[Rhand]

There's nothing wrong with either of those CPUs, but unless you just want to future proof, I think the 12C/24T may be a bit pricey. It depends on what else you do with your machine. Do you stream? Do video editing? Use Virtual Machines? Personally, I don't think 5-boxing eats up too much CPU, even if you were to increase your resolution, however...

It's a general purpose mix of mostly gaming, a little work when I need the screen space of dual 27" monitors over the laptop, and whatever else I'm dabbling with at the time. None of these really call for this level of hardware but I like to only have to rebuild every few years, so a bit of future proofing headroom is worth the investment.

Ultimately, you can choose to go the route you've laid out above with the 9920X (while it's a bit pricey, it's a nice platform), but it may not be necessary to do that. I think the 9900K is a nice CPU, and it gets a little nicer if you're willing to overclock it by a little bit. I know that not everyone wants to attempt that, so having more cores available may just be the simpler route.

I'm perfectly comfortable with overclocking and I used to run the 6700K at 4.4K until I hit a really weird memory issue that took a while to diagnose the faulty Corsair stick. I just haven't gotten around to putting the OC back in yet. I don't have heat issues even at a modest OC, usually staying around 40c-45c under 5-boxing load and rarely over, so unless the new CPU runs a LOT hotter then OC'ing it isn't an issue. That being said, the 9900K seems to have a higher overall clock and turbo than the 9920X but I have a feeling that the 9920X with even a modest OC is going to out pace the 9900K pretty easy, or at least it better for the $$$

A whole terabyte is a lot for a system drive, and unless you expect to be loading it up with pictures or videos, I think it's going to be quite empty (or you can over provision the shit out of it). However, it's only ~$80 more to move from 512GB to 1TB, so... go for it.

Again, back to the overall general use of the machine, sometimes I dump a bunch of data on it now and again and it's just easier to have the headroom to not have to push it over the wire to the home NAS, even at gig ethernet speed it's a LOT slower than internal storage. Plus it's what I run now, just on SSD drives instead of M.2 and I'm curious to see if the v3 x4 PCIE M.2's are really *that* fast

Thanks for the feedback and insight on how you run your CPU setup MiRai, that saves me another forum post once I build the new rig.

BTW are you getting that butter smooth 4K play on the single 1080Ti? In your videos the 2nd card never really seems to be working much if at all? Is the 2nd 1080Ti adding that much to your gaming performance? Given the previous posts on SLI and windowed mode games, the general rule has always been to avoid it.

[MiRai]

BTW are you getting that butter smooth 4K play on the single 1080Ti? In your videos the 2nd card never really seems to be working much if at all? Is the 2nd 1080Ti adding that much to your gaming performance? Given the previous posts on SLI and windowed mode games, the general rule has always been to avoid it.

I dropped SLI, when multiboxing, quite awhile ago after it became increasingly worse while playing in windowed mode. I really only ever used SLI in a few games anyway, WoW being one of them, and now that we've lost exclusive fullscreen mode in BFA, the second GPU generally sits around doing nothing.

[Rhand]

I dropped SLI, when multiboxing, quite awhile ago after it became increasingly worse while playing in windowed mode. I really only ever used SLI in a few games anyway, WoW being one of them, and now that we've lost exclusive fullscreen mode in BFA, the second GPU generally sits around doing nothing.

Perfect! Not the fact that SLI sucks for WoW but that I don't need to buy a 2nd 1080Ti Thanks as always for the info!