Iamrogue
I was going to order FTW-K but after playing with Micro I will wait for some proper reviews.

EVGA as usually delivered on temps and more exciting things like easy OC and general experience but failed horribly on basic stuff

I worry that FTW-K will have he same issues and it makes me wait before ordering new mobo from EVGA

I think that the delay with releasing FTW-K and Dark are the result of removing issues from Micro experience - and Micro, its not market ready... and i doubt thats the issue only with my mobo 

What basic stuff failed?  Can you elaborate?

RoyTInHouston

Vlada011

bobmitch
Doing a new upgraded build in the next week.  Got a $50 off i7 7820X code from Newegg this morning...got the processor...and new motherboard.  Here is the build:
 
EVGA X299 FTW K
Intel i7 7820X
EVGA CLC 280 AIO Cooler
EVGA GTX 1080 TI Black Edition (from old system...3 months old)
Corsair Obsidian 750D Airflow Series ATX Case
512 GB Samsung 960 Pro m.2 (from old system...only a month old)
32 GB of GSkill DDR4-2666 (from old system...installed 2016)
Corsair HX850i PSU (from old system...installed 2016)
 
Glad to still use EVGA Motherboard and new peripherals.  Products and support have been superb!
 

Nice.
I need to stay with X99, maybe to upgrade only CPU on i7-6900K.
I know price would be similar as i7-7820X but at least I could save money on motherboard.
GPU is priority.
 
 

I went “old tech” and purchased an x99 classified from newegg. Very stable and quite pleased. 6850k is $349.

Dark looks very interesting but x299 platform seems to have issues from intel. more interested in HPC than anything else. Spend $$$ on gpu and psu. I use an $85 card (1030) to run my graphics and 2 (soon to be 4) 1080 ti’s to crunch numbers.

Next up is to build a custom loop as opposed to aio and pray nothing explodes

A lot if issues ensued because the vendors (Asus, MSI, EVGA, etc.) got blindsided and were not able to work out the bugs from release.  With some time and maturation of bios...the X299 platform has improved.  Voltages are better...fewer complaints of VRM overheat (remember..DeBauer tested under extreme conditions of overclock and software).  Example...many vendors are on sixth generation, seventh and even eighth generation bios releases.  With each release, X299 improves.  EVGA was late to the party...but I expect that their initial releases are much more stable than others.  Perhaps they did it on purpose.  Chatted with a few techie friends...they warned me off X299 early...now they say it is improved and ready for prime time.  One can hope.
 
With that in mind...your choice of X99 Classified and 6850K should serve you well.  X99 is older and extremely stable.  I just wanted to upgrade to 8 core / 16 thread...where right now...i7 6900K can be had for around $800 when on sale...spent slightly more to get 7820X and EVGA X299 FTW K.

bobmitch

Vlada011

bobmitch
Doing a new upgraded build in the next week.  Got a $50 off i7 7820X code from Newegg this morning...got the processor...and new motherboard.  Here is the build:
 
EVGA X299 FTW K
Intel i7 7820X
EVGA CLC 280 AIO Cooler
EVGA GTX 1080 TI Black Edition (from old system...3 months old)
Corsair Obsidian 750D Airflow Series ATX Case
512 GB Samsung 960 Pro m.2 (from old system...only a month old)
32 GB of GSkill DDR4-2666 (from old system...installed 2016)
Corsair HX850i PSU (from old system...installed 2016)
 
Glad to still use EVGA Motherboard and new peripherals.  Products and support have been superb!
 

Nice.
I need to stay with X99, maybe to upgrade only CPU on i7-6900K.
I know price would be similar as i7-7820X but at least I could save money on motherboard.
GPU is priority.
 
 

If you are anywhere near a Fry's Electronics.  They have the i7 6900K on sale this week only through Saturday for $799.99.  Go to www.frys.com and check the ad in the upper right hand corner.  It is on the Weekly ad page.  I just figured that If I were to go that route...this cost about the same for me.  I needed a new case and CPU cooler either way...

I found in my country guy sell motherboard, cooler and i7-6900K for 700 euro.
And only i7-6900K ask 450 euro.
Still is under warranty everything.
I could sell i7-5820K for 200-230 euro.
 
i7-6900K is not much slower than i7-7820X, have two advantages, epoxy and PCI-E lanes, but mostly people with watercooling could profit from him. I suppose I would be able max to OC him on 4.0GHz with H100. Some max clock of i7-6900K is arround 4.3GHz and that's native Turbo of i7-7820X. i7-7820X could work on 4.3GHz with small cooler, anything, from other side i7-6900K need serious custom loop to keep CPU on normal temps. I suppose i7-6900K on 4.1GHz will have similar single threaded score as my i7-5820K on 4.2GHz. And that's real advantage of i7-7820X. He don't need a lot effort to work on 4.5GHz,  and i7-6900K is not capable to OC so much to catch single threaded performance of i7-7820X on 4.5GHz.
 
 

ScorPion359
this is the best I've ever seen
 

Someone just watched the JayzTwoCents Video, lol. I like the bench board the x299 Dark will possibly come with.

Will waterblock off X79 motherboard work on an X299 motherboard? 

bobmitch

Got the X299 build finished.  Have some tidying up to do...but WOW!  EVGA X299 FTW K is a very nice board.  i7 7820X.. Here is the first photo.  Thanks to Stephen Burke of Gamer's Nexus for some refined fan settings for the CLC 280. EVGA team:  Jacob, LeeM, David R...all helpful!!! 

Nice, I hope X299 will serve you nice in future gaming.
What you had before upgrade to X299? 

BobMitch, that looks great!

ScorPion359
To bobmitch:
What about overclocking?
I have the same processor. On the AORUS X299 Gaming 9 motherboard I was able to overclock only to 4.8 GHz, so I want to buy a dark to get 5 GHz =)

Be careful spending extra money hoping for a minuscule amount of performance gain. That may be your chips limit. :-)

Vlada011

bobmitch

Got the X299 build finished.  Have some tidying up to do...but WOW!  EVGA X299 FTW K is a very nice board.  i7 7820X.. Here is the first photo.  Thanks to Stephen Burke of Gamer's Nexus for some refined fan settings for the CLC 280. EVGA team:  Jacob, LeeM, David R...all helpful!!! 

Nice, I hope X299 will serve you nice in future gaming.
What you had before upgrade to X299? 

I had EVGA X99 FTW K with i7 5820K.  Going to redo the build and give to my son...
 
 

ScorPion359
To bobmitch:
What about overclocking?
I have the same processor. On the AORUS X299 Gaming 9 motherboard I was able to overclock only to 4.8 GHz, so I want to buy a dark to get 5 GHz =)

I think that's not smart decision if you hit limit of your CPU.
You need to check how much space you have with voltage and to think about better cooling if you have Air or AIO system.
 
 

bobmitch

Got the X299 build finished.  Have some tidying up to do...but WOW!  EVGA X299 FTW K is a very nice board.  i7 7820X.. Here is the first photo.  Thanks to Stephen Burke of Gamer's Nexus for some refined fan settings for the CLC 280. EVGA team:  Jacob, LeeM, David R...all helpful!!! 

Great stuff mate!

I will be sorely tempted to buy the x299 dark when the great white whale finally makes it to shore... er... something like that...

When it’s for sale, I will cannibalize my new x99 build and embrace the DARK!

ScorPion359
I have been building computers since 2001 :)
I know what I'm doing.

Never questioned your knowledge, but every generation produces the same thing.. and every time, the same thing happens.. this will be no different.

well guess I'll give up just how old I am buy saying , I've been building computer since they were called a mainframe and dos2 was a god send. lol and stile there are a few that always try and tell me I can't do something or that wont work . if they only had any ideal what will lol . all about fun and what makes you  happy. and have always been scared of ln2 but after watching jay's YouTube I'm thinking about it . 

ScorPion359
To bobmitch:
What about overclocking?
I have the same processor. On the AORUS X299 Gaming 9 motherboard I was able to overclock only to 4.8 GHz, so I want to buy a dark to get 5 GHz =)

Played around a bit more today.  Overclocked the processor to 4.6 ALL cores...ran Prime (newest version).  Voltage was 1.21...after 20 minutes CPU hit 70C.  Let it run for 15 minutes like that...CLC 280 kept it really cool...at the 70C.  Backed it down to where I was...at 4.2 GHZ...my voltage for CPU is 1.16.  Keeping this generation under 1.20 is supposed to keep it really cool. 

ok where do I order the MB? 

852vth
Well, my waiting time ended (Dark). Now ordered the MSI X299 Xpower Gaming ac. What is approved for example: der8auer & The Stilt.

I didn't nor approved.
I approve only i9-7900X + X299 Dark + Dominator Platinum 32GB with Cablemod Memory kit in Caselabs BH8.
Off course with Heatkiller 4.0 Pro Acetal, Heatkiller Tube D5 100.