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Anyone gone X99 to OC 7900x?

I've moved from a 6850K on X99 to a 7900X on X299 and thus far its been a huge improvement.

Can you expand a little to help with where you have noticed improvements the most?

X99 is not compatible with 7900X.

I wasn't suggesting that it is compatible. Just looking for people's views on going from an X99 platform specifically to an overclocked 7900x/x299 platform. I have owned a 5820k and now have a 5960x (both overclocked) so I have a pretty good idea about where X99 performance sits just asking if anyone can give me their comparisons of going to an OC 7900x as it's the only Skylake-x chip that would make sense for my usage with the more expensive chips losing too much per core clock speed for their extra cores which I would not make suitable use of and the cheaper chips losing either to many cores or/and pci-e lanes/memory channels
 
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Games I have seen a noticeable improvement in FPS and in general fluidity, if I use BF1 for a example I have gone from around 100 - 115 FPS on average to being more less pegged at 144FPS. However, I guess some of the smoothness can be attributed to moving to a 165Hz screen. Also game and stream at the same time now without being CPU limited as before it at a notable impact on the games and in some cases it was unplayable. To add to that in 3D benchmarks which I know are not real world examples, the 7900X monsters the 6850K my Timespy benches are a good example of that as well.

In Photoshop, Lightroom, Premier I've seen a subtle but noticeable improved in speed, like applying effects etc...

If you need any more information let me know.

Thanks, it's always useful to get some user feedback to add to review benchmarks that don't always tell the full story
 
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