Leaving the 5900X completely stock, as it's my main rig. It's still really impressive.
I wanted manageable thermals, so from the temps it looks like spending the extra $130 over the 8-core was worth it. Hell, the damn 5900X often runs cooler than the 3700X!
69C in CPU-Z, 69C in every run of R23
. All on just an iPPC'd NH-C14S.
And the quality is good too. Core 0 and Core 1 are the best 2 cores, hitting over 4.9GHz effective clock in tests. I guess strict binning for CCD1 on the dual-CCDs really is paying off, even if it's absolutely slaughtering availability for those two CPUs.
Awesome man congratulations! That does sound tempting.. Enjoy your new toy!
Also, I forgot to mention.. since updating to Bios 1805 my Aura lights are fixed and the Intel Lan connects right away after boot or sleep, instead of a 38s wait.. pretty happy!
It sounds like Asus changed something in the most recent AGESA 1200 BIOSes. On one of the memory training reboots it gave me a message that it was updating Aura firmware for a few seconds. No problems so far, but I think the new Aura update broke my G.skill RGB software so now I have uncontrollable rainbow puke on my RAM again.
By the way, 5900X/5950X owners is it normal to see the crappy CCD consistently 3 degrees hotter than the good CCD, at the same clocks?