Are you going to Water Cool the Micro Motherboard?
Their is only One K|ngp|n in the World and he is above any standard Overclocker when it comes to overclocking so you cannot think you can do the same. 
K|ngp|n Also was under LN2 on the X299 Micro and using a Custom BIOS.
 
https://kingpincooling.com/
 
http://forum.kingpincooling.com/index.php
 
http://forum.kingpincooling.com/showthread.php?t=3972 GTX 1080 Ti Overclocking
 
vCore 1.520v

Stock shouldn't be an issue - but I wouldn't trust it if you want to heavily overclock.

arestavo
Stock shouldn't be an issue - but I wouldn't trust it if you want to heavily overclock.

+1
The X299 Dark is what you should get for heavily overclocking the CPU as that is what is it is build for.
Snipes7 are you going LN2 on your X299?

bcavnaugh

arestavo
Stock shouldn't be an issue - but I wouldn't trust it if you want to heavily overclock.

+1
The X299 Dark is what you should get for heavily overclocking the CPU as that is what is it is build for.
Snipes7 are you going LN2 on your X299?

I know ppl are all hyped for the dark and I get it, it's dark, it's sexy, but I'm my special kind of cookie I guess who likes his mATX formfactor, so the dark is a no no. No XOC with LN2 either. As I said I'm gonna use the Mo-RA3 a 9x120 radiator from watercool which has admittedly some decent capacity. So I'd be shooting for 4.9Ghz on a 7900X which requires 1.275-1.300v on a good chip. Maybe more, depending on thermals. Or alternatively whatever clock I can achieve with these kind of volts on a good 12-core chip which might be lower or the same it all depends on the luck of the draw. Because the 12-core still uses the same LCC (low core count) die as the 6, 8 and 10 cores. The clock of all of them actually scales more or less the same with volts, the bigger ones are just more difficult to cool.
 
Anyway as Kingpin used the little Micro board for his own record breaking 5.6Ghz XOC, he was pushing a lot of current though the vrms/mosfets. Granting the board was not modified by Kingpin, this in itself is a statement. In case it was modified beyond stock to be able to push those currents (which I'm not willing or able to do) I wanna know how much the Micro's Vrms can take. Or more precise: How much current/watts with disabled overcurrent protection it can draw before A: the vrms are going to reach their Tjmax and throttle (not how much current they are technically able to push which is probably in the 400A range) and B: when the single 8pin is maxed out. Disable the overcurrent protection is mandatory otherwise it will kick in and just turn off your board way too early.
 
what I'm refering to is something like this (sorry I can't get a table to be displayed properly in this forum):
 
Wattage numbers are roughly +/- 10W depending on measurement errors and ambient/error differences. Measurements are of VCCIN output power using VRM controller telemetry and confirmed by 12V input current clamp to make sure values are reliable.



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/WHz2DM.png
(credits to elmor)
 
For the record: Max ouput power is defined by the amount of wattage that can be put out by the vrm config without throttling of the vrms (not cpu). So the point when the heatsink isn't able to dissipate the amount of heat fast enough generated by the vrms and they reach their individual Tjmax. Tjmax is different on all boards depending on where on the board the temps for the vrms are measured. Actuall Tjmax of the VRM chips is higher. As you can see there is a bit of variance across the boards.

What it boils down to in simple terms: How good is the ability of the vrm heatsink on the Micro to transfer the heat away before the vrms start to throttle down? So essencially the heatsink performance really assuming the vrm config is somewhere in the 400A range.
 
This will enable me to figure out if I need to get a custom waterblock for the vrms aswell or if I can get away with air-cooling the vrms. This is a new challenge for this platform in general, because before even the 6950X wouldn't pull anywhere near as much current so the vrm design and heatsinks were sufficient on the X99 boards. Today we face very hungry chips when overclocked tackling the limits what the VRMs and by that I mean the vrm heatsink design can deal with on the current line-up of boards across all manufacturers especially now that most of the vrm heatsinks are unfortunately covered by plastic bits and rgb bling.

1x8 should be quite reliable with the 12-core on stock, or the 10-core with a moderate overclock.
 
I wouldn't overclock the 12-core with just an 8-pin, however.

Well I have 750w Seasonic Prime Titanium and I can't find specifications on the provided cables, but to be frank the cables seem to have pretty standard thickness (if this is what 16a - 18a boils down to).