dmann304Is the chip still good in 24?  I just wanna max out my dark x299 system.  And not seeing a reason 
to bother with 14gen right now. I heard with these XE's if you get latency down, and good 24 7 oc with mesh, you
got a solid system. 

TBH I wouldn't know nor am I able to give educated guess as I haven't looked into them (for what I do 10980XE wouldn't buy me enough gain in performance to justify cost and effort). Not to mention that everybody's workload type is different so only you know where your bottlenecks are. You have to ask yourself is it worth the effort and money to you. I know you keep bringing up Cinebench, Aida, and other benchmark numbers but which real world apps you exactly use your system for majority of the time?
 

dmann304That is so true, for daily use, these benchmark apps mean nothing. And i get very good
results even from the 10920, but the 10980XE will do that and at 18 cores.

Benchmarks have their purpose in the world as long as one uses them appropriately because they can easily mislead. Are you really sure that 10980XE will do everything 10920X does with just more cores? In order for that to be true all of the following would have to be satisfied:
 
a) every core would have to run at no less than same multiplier as your 10920X runs at, and
b) your applications would have to scale up nicely with more cores, and
c) you would have to not exceed TJmax for 10980XE.
 
With TJmax for 10980XE being 8C lower than for 10920X it would be very hard to meet all that. So you have to think very hard and be really sure you would get benefit before tearing apart system that is already very solid and starting all over again from scratch.

dmann304Why does Jayz2Cents use 105c on his XE?

For same reason car guys try to push more horsepower through engine that is built for less: Because there is nothing preventing them from trying. Will they be able to at all and what that will do to an engine (how long it will run before it blows up and how reliable it will be in the meantime) is a different story (why is it that everytime I watch another Jayz's video it is about something that broke?).
 
None the less I hope you end up very happy with it. All I am trying to say is that personally I would think very hard how much real world benefit I would truly get out of the effort.
 

dmann304... but X299 is more then plenty for what I do ...

That is what I am trying to suggest, that you will have to ask yourself is 10920X already plenty for what you do / how much you would get from 10980XE / is CPU your bottleneck or something else. For example, check this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3JRKhEu0SI
 
BTW, which applications, games, etc. you use on a regular basis that you are not happy with on 10920X? And which video card you have?

dmann304Im happy with it, just got a good deal on the XE version.

I hope you enjoy it for the very long time :)
 

please remember to keep your posts on Topic --> safe daily mesh voltage
 
for other conversation, please make your own thread

Got cpu, and seems to run the same temp wise as the 10920x at 4800, but when running aida 64 
memory tests, good latency, but system restarted when running L3 cache tests, thinking it might 
be the mesh, so to keep on topic, is 1.29v safe for daily use?  temps aren't out of control, idle 42c
load 83c which is same as previous cpu? at 32 mesh btw.

Much appreciate it.