ehabash1

Baratak

SprayingMango
I do not understand people using Z390 systems with SLI...the 9900K does not have enough PCIe lanes to fully feed both cards. It's such a waste. 

Though there may be a couple percent slowdown, the NVLink bridge is doing most of the heavy lifting.  Gamer's Nexus did a test of it, and as long as you were using the nvlink, 16x/16x and 8x/8x were within the margin of error.
 
In many games, the 9900k with a pair of 2080tis will outperform the 9980xe with a pair of 2080tis due to the higher single threaded clock speeds.  9980 is only faster if the application is doing a lot of multithreading.

and saying a couple percent is being generous lol. it was 1-2fps which was margin of error. there is essentially no difference if you use nvlink

I did say "may be" :)  That review is when I decided going x299 was throw away $$ for my workloads. 
 
Are you "a91990086" on 3dmark?  If so, I've been trying to chase you since we are both 2x 2080ti and 9900k and 4x sticks of ram.
 
You are in a lower overclock reading on system specs, but still beating my score.  You're killing me smalls!  

im ExDarkxH on 3dmark
 
https://www.3dmark.com/fs/18216833
 

yea i love his rig. conceptually its similar to mine so right away it reminded me of my computer. Good Job!
dont really understand the mods rigs thing so i dont believe ive ever posted my rig for reference 
 

 

 
 

ehabash1
dont really understand the mods rigs thing so i dont believe ive ever posted my rig for reference 

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ehabash1

bcavnaugh
 
Just to comment that there is more to using a Computer than just Gamming on it.
It is not foolish for users to want to build a Powerful Multi-Purpose Computer(s).
It would be like saying if you are going to Just Game then you could just get an Game Counsel.
This almost sounds like what a member posted a few years back saying that it was stupid to have more than one computer.

i believe i used the terms "strictly building a gaming rig" with emphasis on the word strictly. There are ppl who legitimately pay an extra $1500 because they think the 9900k will bottleneck their systems. ive seen it all over and i want to correct that misunderstanding.
If you can use the other cores/threads then thats great which i also stated. Please dont misunderstand me.
If you have use for the 9980 its absolutely a better cpu. but if you build a gaming rig with the goal of simply having the best gaming performance, like me and many others, then the extreme cpus are a bad value
dont take it as an insult it wasnt meant that way

None taken at all.

In my case, for the same ish money, I could run a 9900k and 2 2080tis or 9980 and 1 2080ti. If I was doing rendering I would be on the 9980xe, but for VR, 4k gaming, and watching movies, the money was better spent on a second 2080ti than a bigger proc.