X99 -> X299, Am I missing something?

[faxfan]

I'm currently running a 5930K on a X99 platform with a m2 boot SSD, Intel 750 PCIE SSD and two 1080's in SLI.

I currently have 44 PCIE lanes - as I understand it, where does X299 fit in - it seems like same / less PCIE lanes (although I may not be utilising them all to be fair) and some more cores.

Have I missed something important here?

 

[faxfan]

Thanks guys, thought I was missing something important. Obviously not.

 

[faxfan]

Who cares about X299 and i9 when AMD's X399 and threadripper are available? Better prices, VRM doesn't explode, = performance for less $... it's just better. HEDT is totally owned by AMD in 2017. It could be argued that mainstream is owned by AMD at this point as well. Red team is back.

Google X299 VRM debacle and see the horror for yourself. If you overclock the VRMs barbecue on pretty much every X299 board.

OC3D called the X399 Zenith ROG board from ASUS "Flawless" and I've never seen Tiny Tom Logan so blown away by a motherboard/cpu platform before, and I've seen all his videos. If I could afford it I would be all over threadripper like white on rice.

To be fair that's not the question I'm asking, certainly threadripper is on the radar but it is a very immature platform with issues i.e. can't boot from a raid array...

 

[faxfan]

So don't use RAID . I'm sure that will be resolved through BIOS update in less than 3 months.
You can't argue with the value for money.

Likewise I'm sure the VRM issues will be resolved - you can't have it both ways.

 

[faxfan]

I don't want it both ways. Red team FTW right now.
BTW the VRM issue on X299 comes down to the heatsinks on the VRMs not having sufficient surface area considering the amount of heat they need to dissipate. There has been much talk about this on the youtubes and the interwebs. The real solution seems to be newer revision boards down the road with old school heatsinks that actually have surface area like we used to see on socket 775 back in the olden days.

This is isn't a red vs blue thread, there are plenty of them around. It's a question about X99 -> X299.