I want to build a computer using a sli 1080 ti set as well as a m.2 as my boot drive with limited to no hit on prformance. I'm worried that a z motherboard id have to do 8x 8x to get the m.2 drive in there as well. but there is a price premium going with th x platform for sure.

so my question is with wanting to run 16x 16x 4x m.2 would I need a 40 lane cpu?

Thanks in Advance:

Alice P. Arthington

well I was planing to wait for the next x series, cant wait to see whats next in the new x series I hope they improve prices to compete with ryzen 7

id love to run triple 1440p surround with a 21:9 1440 ultra wide accessory display in a 1 over 3 setup. thats why I was worried about cpu lanes

yeah i want edit photos and create media similar to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV4teEB_5Xk). might seam odd to some im sure but i like it as a creative outlet.
 
i do wonder if EVGA will do a x299 Micro ATX agian.  case im looking at is micro ATX.

ypsylon
Well wonder not much longer. By beginning of July you'll have clear picture what's on offer.
 
Any kind of work will benefit greatly from X line over Z line. Amount of cache in HEDT CPUs is worth its price in gold. Take it from me X99 (5930) and Z97 (4790) which belong to the same family of chips (Haswell) - its a non contest when you do anything that can utilize raw power of cores. Certainly video editing is one of such tasks. 

thanks. i figured the x series would be worth the wait. heard they plan to release a 12 core cpu beast. and also herd that there may be a 16 core amd chip coming too. so lots options out therer for sure.  im also planing o running 3 LG 29UC88-B monitors in suround, over kill i know. i just wonder if nvidia could power them better then a amd freesync gpu.

ypsylon
BTW: I never understood folks stacking multiple monitors to do work (or in particular gaming). My head hurts with single 27". Holy Moly 3x29". That's guaranteed epilepsy after 5 seconds flat.

yeah its just something i have always wanted to do, it would be extremely wide for sure! id play my few games but its mainly for real-estate for streaming and media creation while researching. i have wondered if a single high end 34" would be a better investment like the rog swift.

if they make 4k more high refresh id consider one. id have to change the default dpi. i can bearly read text on my 15" at 1050p macbook pro display. im extreanmly near sighted glasses makes text smaller but with out them i cant even read my keyboard.

AliceSML79
if they make 4k more high refresh id consider one. id have to change the default dpi. i can bearly read text on my 15" at 1050p macbook pro display. im extreanmly near sighted glasses makes text smaller but with out them i cant even read my keyboard.

Ah I can see the problem (no pun intended). But still getting multiple big displays will result in nothing more than accelerated catch-22 situation. At first it maybe more comfortable, but in the end eye strain will be a serious issue. Wearing glasses myself I can testify to that - although I'm not in such precarious situation that I can't read keyboard without them, but at some stage getting bigger and bigger is like I've said catch 22. For me 27" is maximum. I was trying to work with 40" and then 32". I didn't last a day. Basically my head felt like 3 seconds from implosion, but every person has different predisposition.

I use x3 24" 1080p @ 60hz TN panels in surround for a few years now.  Haven't looked back and don't think I'll ever go back to a single monitor again.  For multi-tasking purposes and gaming, it's amazing.  While I only game on the center screen only, I use my left screen for monitoring of the rig, water cooling, etc. and my right screen I use it for websites, forums and typing this as we speak.  If I were ever to get the funds to upgrade my screens which I would love to do, I would personally go with 27" 4K, 144hz, IPS, HDR, Gsync screens with thin bezels.  I know its a tall order as they aren't out yet but surely they'll come at a hefty price.  Screen prices I feel are at a very inflated price.
 

 

 

Yeah screen prices are a bit on the over-inflated side. Simple example 16:9 which dominates now the market cost is at most half of 16:10 and that only 140px more (2560x1440 vs 2560x1600). 16:10 is so expensive that it pretty much died out by now, but I would get it for sure if the price was reasonable. Even now my almost brand new PG279 with all bells and whistles is about, equivalent of, 500$ cheaper than cheapest 16:10 near me. Cheapest does not mean worth buying because specs are totally off except screen resolution.
 
From all rumors flying around 4k/ips/g-s/hdr from Acer is coming at 2000$, ouch... I don't know if kidney is worth that much... Selling heart is rather (Mordin-)Problematic!
 
Like you said GTX that you can't imagine going back to single monitor. Well on my side of things I'll never go to TN and less than 1440p. That's simply anatema to me at this moment in time. Using high quality IPS panels for good 10 years now just changes whole perspective how things should be done. Still 2000$ that will be like 2500 Euro in the EU with S&H&taxes. 

ypsylon
 
From all rumors flying around 4k/ips/g-s/hdr from Acer is coming at 2000$, ouch... I don't know if kidney is worth that much... Selling heart is rather (Mordin-)Problematic!
 
Like you said GTX that you can't imagine going back to single monitor. Well on my side of things I'll never go to TN and less than 1440p. That's simply anatema to me at this moment in time. Using high quality IPS panels for good 10 years now just changes whole perspective how things should be done. Still 2000$ that will be like 2500 Euro in the EU with S&H&taxes. 

I also heard a rumor that the prices for these new 4k 144hz screens will be in the ballpark of $1500-$2000.  My question to them would be, who the hell do they think they are for setting that ridiculous price?!  Does it come with gold plated bezels?!  This is beyond comprehensible.  I'm wondering if these companies that mfger screens are either buying them from one big giant and branding them as their own or they are each making their own screens?  I think it's just like the GPU company Nvidia and their 3rd pary AIB partners like EVGA and such.  I think it's safe to say we are being price gouged beyond recognition and no ones making a stink out of it.
 
Regardless, I completely understand when you say, going from a 1440p you can never go back.  That would be like someone with a 1080p screen, never going back to the 720p or someone at 720p could never go back to the infamous 800x600. 

lots people been telling me i should buy a new titan because of the fact that this pc will be for production 1st and gaming 2nd.  it sounds like a pricy thing to do if u ask me. cant a 1080ti do most what the titan Xp can do?

Titan Whatever (don't you think its better name than X XP X(p) ) is card more targeted at deep learning, medical research and in general widely understood super-computing (I know Quadro etc too). Of course nVidia and board partners understand very well that it will sell too as a gaming card, which is nuts in the extreme, but there is no need to look very far for people with Titan Whatever SLI setup.
 
1080Ti will do 99.9% of what Titan Whatever will do for basically half the price. Its a no-brainer. If you were thinking about single Titan then get 2 Tis and look no further - especially for video work at super duper high resolution. And X series will always outclass Z series of chipsets for any kind of multi-threaded workload. By a lot. 
 
Of course required device for video work is NVMe drive or two (temp on one, work on another). This will eat any amount of simultaneous streams you can reasonably dish out at it, heck even multiple-live-8K can't choke this thing. And I mostly relating to (old??? by now) intel750. Samsung 950s or 960s are even better at this.