Speccing out a breaddipper workstation. What are the chances that the X399 version of this board will cost the same as its X299 counterpart (MSI Pro Carbon AC - $350)?
>>61583728
>3 m.2 slots
>all spaced out x16 slots for 4 way sli/crossfire
>dual usb 3.0 headers
Honestly it looks like MSI's board is not configured for the average enthusiast. I expect it would be more expensive. The people who would buy one for those features have money to throw around
Yeah I guess I can see it being more expensive on account of the extra m.2 slot and more importantly that huge-ass socket.
>all spaced out x16 slots for 4 way sli/crossfire
I think every single X399 board shown so far has four equidistant x16 PCIe slots.
>>61583804
What really sucks is that the chipset doesn't allow for more than 3.5 gigabytes per second, so the operations to a m.2 raid0 would be limited, and bottlenecking any connected sata devices. It really messes shit up, like the fact that you cannot transfer things easily from M.2 to HDD or sata SSD, because of the IOs loading up the chipset.
>>61583728
well it definitely could be more expensive than the X299 counter-part, but the fact is that you get more shit for it.I believe x399 gives you 60+4 PCI-E lanes
>>61584774
>well it definitely could be more expensive than the X299 counter-part,
>>61584823
AORUS Mbos are expensive though,i don't need all that RGBT BS in my build,MSI/Asus prime boards are usually the best value
>>61583728
why are there no good comparos with all the mobos yet? did they not release the specs for all of them?
>>61583728
In the end, does it really matter> Even if you spend the same on Threadripper, you get much better performance for the price than with Intel.
>>61583728
Why does the X299 intel motherboard only have 2 M.2 slots?
>>61585340
In what reality?
>>61585367
Because Intel Core i9 platform only has half the PCI-E lanes compared to ThreadRipper LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL
>>61583728
Hard to say, the BoM parts on a motherboard that cost the most are chips, which range from $4-40, instead of 0.05ยข to add an extra PCIE slot.
On one hand the X399 board is larger and more complex overall, however AMD's solution won't need PCI switches to service that many slots, and the chipset also tends to be less expensive than Intel's.
>>61585391
Not defending Intel here, but TR and Skylake X are very different platforms.
TR is really meant for workstations and light servers. Skylake X is more of an enthusiast lineup.
Your average TR setup is going to need those lanes more than anyone with an i9 or something.
LGA 2011 is on a similar tier to TR
Breadripper sounds cool.
>>61584762
The chipset should give 32gbps theoretically, which is 5 full speed data devices. Raid0 is going to saturate 10gbe as well so honestly it just seems a bit overkill for transfers, only thing that will keep up with those speeds is loading into memory. Shits fast regardless of where it's goes.
>>61585782
Nothing about hedt is average. It's just Intel marketing for x299 that is very weird. But you're sort of right. TR seems to cover both prosumer and professional use with accidental overlap to servers. I9 is split with single socket xeons in these tiers differenciated with memory channels, ecm and paying for raid.