X299 Owners Club

lexluthermiester · Dec 31, 2023

Went looking and couldn't find a Club thread for X299(WTH?!?!?). X58, X79 and X99 all have Club threads, so no time like the present for X299! :rockout:

This thread was created for everyone to join in discussion about anything X299 in general. I'll go first!!

My Gigabyte X299 board died(a few months ago) so I had to decide if I wanted to go with Threadripper or get another X299 board. Betting you all can guess the choice..

An ASUS WS X299Pro

Wanted to go with AsRock, but couldn't find a board model with 22110 NVMe slots(my SSD's are 22110 models), so I "settled" for this ASUS model.

Testing revealed that the Gigabyte board took the CPU & RAM with it. This is something I did not know when I bought this new board. I might have gone Threadripper otherwise, but oh well. Everything else seems to be fine(tested in a separate system). So a new CPU and RAM kit is also on the way. Will update when they arrive.

Macro Device · Dec 31, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
the Gigabyte board took the CPU & RAM with it.

That's a huge bummer. Wish your budget hasn't gone extinct after that.

X299 is still not bad, I'd love to own a piece of that for experiments but... realistically can't afford that as of now. Enjoy your new system!

lexluthermiester · Dec 31, 2023

Beginner Micro Device said:
Wish your budget hasn't gone extinct after that.

It didn't. Went with another X299 board thinking I could keep using the existing CPU and RAM... The alternative was a Threadripper CPU, board & RAM and I didn't want to spend $1600+.

Beginner Micro Device said:
realistically can't afford that as of now.

Really wasn't that expensive. $190 for the board, $180 for the CPU and $90 for the RAM. I made out ok. Sub $500 for used X299 is better than $1600+ for used Threadripper or $2600+ for new.

Macro Device · Dec 31, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
$190 for the board, $180 for the CPU and $90 for the RAM.

Russian salaries are not on par with American ones and on top of that, I don't have a real job now. Yeah, I make dough but not enough to justify a $500 YOLO purchase.

repsol23 · Dec 31, 2023

Nice to see someone else talking about x299 still. I have been rocking my setup for over 6 years now. Last upgraded my cpu couple years ago to 10900x, gpu to 3080ti. I’m not cutting edge but definitely not bottom of the barrel.

lexluthermiester · Dec 31, 2023

Beginner Micro Device said:
Russian salaries are not on par with American ones and on top of that, I don't have a real job now. Yeah, I make dough but not enough to justify a $500 YOLO purchase.

Fair enough.

ThrashZone · Dec 31, 2023

Hi,
Yeah mine is in storage
I stole the ocool d5 pump/ reservoir out of it a few weeks ago to put in my z490 rig.

Thought about making a heatware acc and parting it out actually. system spec's.

lexluthermiester · Dec 31, 2023

ThrashZone said:
system spec's

Nice! 9940X is a very good CPU and still relevant today. The one I've got on the way is a 7820X. The one before it was a 10920X, but wasn't at all overclockable and would not run any RAM I gave it at anything other than JEDEC specs(2933mhz). I did some reading and the 7820X is generally a very OC-friendly CPU. We'll see though. Bought the 7820X as a stop gap to play with until I can find a good deal on another 10920X. Or maybe I'll just settle on a 10900X and call it good for a few more years.

ThrashZone · Dec 31, 2023

Hi,
Yeah the pigeon poop inside series memories of the 7900x :laugh:

I didn't see any gains past 4.8 with 4000MHz on memory with my 9940x and it was kicking some people running 5.0 on ocn

X299 apex is a good board I picked it up off ebay for like 100.us since it had one bad pin on it with the seller discount so I kept it
I put it threw hell to :fear:

I killed so may tuf & prime delux x299 boards :roll:

Only issue with it is I tossed the stock vrm cooler so it's stuck with water block there.

......

Scavenger hunt
Find that broken off pin hehe

phill · Dec 31, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
Went looking and couldn't find a Club thread for X299(WTH?!?!?). X58, X79 and X99 all have Club threads, so no time like the present for X299! This thread was created for everyone to join in discussion about anything X299 in general. I'll go first!!

My Gigabyte X299 board died(a few months ago) so I had to decide if I wanted to go with Threadripper or get another X299 board. Betting you all can guess the choice..

An ASUS WS X299Pro
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Wanted to go with AsRock, but couldn't find a board model with 22110 NVMe slots(my SSD's are 22110 models), so I "settled" for this ASUS model.

Testing revealed that the Gigabyte board took the CPU & RAM with it. This is something I did not know when I bought this new board. I might have gone Threadripper otherwise, but oh well. Everything else seems to be fine(tested in a separate system). So a new CPU and RAM kit is also on the way. Will update when they arrive.

I don't think we have clubs for the older 775 and before all that along with Socket A and 740/939/940/AM3/AM4/AM5 do we?? I digress

I have a EVGA X299 Kingpin with a 7980XE that I'd like to get built up... I've got some RAM in it currently but some is due from my mate in the US at some point, so when that comes over, maybe I can get that rig built

It would have been nice to have the 10980XE but they seemed quite expensive, so I'll wait and see

Thinking about it, I think I have another X299 up in the loft with the other Asus boards I have... Rampage Apex it might be?? I think it came with a water block that covers the VRMs too as well as the CPU... I'll see if I can find a pic......

Well I had to make sure it was working....

Man those Threadripper CPUs are huge.....

I saw a Threadripper system go for something like £1200 the other day, fully loaded and built, I thought it wasn't a bad buy. The 3 series CPUs are a little cheaper but they do seem to be holding their cash well as far as hardware goes

I enjoy both of mine

And here we have a few of the X299 Dark

Had this one for a while before I could get it unwrapped....

I'll have to find some more time to get the other Intel setups I've got to build done, never enough space, time or time to finish it all

ThrashZone · Dec 31, 2023

Hi,
Damn sir you are a hoarder :rockout:

Anoniem · Dec 31, 2023

Dude, nice stash you got, almost pr0n like to be honest :rockout:

Alright, you guys gave me an idea, I was still looking for a board to do some ex'ocing on. Let's find a x299 dark or apex

lexluthermiester · Dec 31, 2023

ThrashZone said:
Find that broken off pin hehe

Looks like it's off on the very left, about midway.

phill said:
I don't think we have clubs for the older 775 and before all that along with Socket A and 740/939/940/AM3/AM4/AM5 do we?? I digress

We can make one. The Club threads are somewhat popular, so it would be a good idea.

phill said:
I'll see if I can find a pic......

That is a damn nice collection!!

phill · Dec 31, 2023

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Damn sir you are a hoarder

I've just a couple spare bits of kit should I never need something.......... I really need to get and sort out my loft.....

ThrashZone · Dec 31, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
Looks like it's off on the very left, about midway.

Yeah I couldn't spot it out lol
But yes I broke completely off accidentally of course, it was bent 180 the wrong way.

bogmali · Dec 31, 2023

My MSI X299 Pro Carbon died on me last year and I couldn't find a reasonable replacement (price-wise) so I posted on the B/S/T thread hoping someone might have one stashed in their storage

. A great soul (or should I say Sol, lol) came forward and offered their MSI X299 Tomahawk free of charge and all I have to do is pay shipping. Being that he is roughly 40 miles away from me (at the time) I could not pass it up and now here she is doing some work for TPU :rockout:

ThrashZone · Dec 31, 2023

Nice test bench !

bogmali · Dec 31, 2023

ThrashZone said:
Nice test bench !

Indeed and sadly they don't make them anymore

ThrashZone · Dec 31, 2023

bogmali said:
Indeed and sadly they don't make them anymore

Hi,
Yeah I had two and only have one left
Couple hwbot china clones hehe they were cheap hwbots were way over priced so what can i say

x299 before I put it storage and stole it's pump/ res combo
Test bench is in storage as well.

lexluthermiester · Jan 1, 2024

ThrashZone said:
But yes I broke completely off accidentally of course, it was bent 180 the wrong way.

That sucks..

ThrashZone · Jan 1, 2024

lexluthermiester said:
That sucks..

Hi,
Not really 2065 socket is no big deal :laugh:

lexluthermiester · Jan 1, 2024

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Not really 2065 socket is no big deal

Wait, it still works? Are you down a RAM slot? A lot of those pins are for memory interconnects.

I had a socket 1366 board than had a similar issue. It was down a RAM slot but with 8GB DIMMs, 24GB in the working slots was still possible.

ThrashZone · Jan 1, 2024

Hi,
Apex works perfectly
4 slot board all work 4x8gb 3600c16
I can do more than 4k but the performance isn't worth the extra dimm voltage
Both dimm_2 m.2 slots work to.

lexluthermiester · Jan 1, 2024

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Apex works perfectly
4 slot board all work 4x8gb 3600c16
I can do more than 4k but the performance isn't worth the extra dimm voltage
Both dimm_2 m.2 slots work to.

So that pin missing caused no ill effects?

ThrashZone · Jan 1, 2024

lexluthermiester said:
So that pin missing caused no ill effects?

None that I've ever noticed.
It's been this way since I got it years ago off ebay.

System Name	DLSS / YOLO-PC
Processor	i5-12400F / 10600KF
Motherboard	Gigabyte B760M DS3H / Z490 Vision D
Cooling	Laminar RM1 / Gammaxx 400
Memory	32 GB DDR4-3200 / 16 GB DDR4-3333
Video Card(s)	RX 6700 XT / R9 380 2 GB
Storage	A couple SSDs, m.2 NVMe included / 240 GB CX1 + 1 TB WD HDD
Display(s)	Compit HA2704 / MSi G2712
Case	Matrexx 55 / Junkyard special
Audio Device(s)	Want loud, use headphones. Want quiet, use satellites.
Power Supply	Thermaltake 1000 W / Corsair CX650M / DQ550ST [backup]
Mouse	Don't disturb, cheese eating in progress...
Keyboard	Makes some noise. Probably onto something.
VR HMD	I live in real reality and don't need a virtual one.
Software	Windows 10 and 11

System Name	DLSS / YOLO-PC
Processor	i5-12400F / 10600KF
Motherboard	Gigabyte B760M DS3H / Z490 Vision D
Cooling	Laminar RM1 / Gammaxx 400
Memory	32 GB DDR4-3200 / 16 GB DDR4-3333
Video Card(s)	RX 6700 XT / R9 380 2 GB
Storage	A couple SSDs, m.2 NVMe included / 240 GB CX1 + 1 TB WD HDD
Display(s)	Compit HA2704 / MSi G2712
Case	Matrexx 55 / Junkyard special
Audio Device(s)	Want loud, use headphones. Want quiet, use satellites.
Power Supply	Thermaltake 1000 W / Corsair CX650M / DQ550ST [backup]
Mouse	Don't disturb, cheese eating in progress...
Keyboard	Makes some noise. Probably onto something.
VR HMD	I live in real reality and don't need a virtual one.
Software	Windows 10 and 11

Processor	i9 10900x @ 4.6 GHz w/ 1.266 V
Motherboard	Asus Prime x299 - Deluxe
Cooling	320 (x2) and 220 (x2) Rads single loop w/ ML120 pros (x12) ML140 pros (x3)
Memory	G.Skill Trident (4x8) DDR4-4000 CL15 @ 1.50V
Video Card(s)	EVGA FTW3 3080 Ti @ 1900 MHz w/ 900 mV
Storage	Samsung 970 500 GB & 1 TB NVME's
Display(s)	Dell 27" 144Hz (x2)
Case	TT Core x71
Power Supply	Corsair RM1000x

System Name	Ghetto Rigs z490\|x99\|Acer 17 Nitro 7840hs/ 5600c40-2x16/ 4060/ 1tb acer stock m.2/ 4tb sn850x
Processor	10900k w/Optimus Foundation \| 5930k w/Black Noctua D15
Motherboard	z490 Maximus XII Apex \| x99 Sabertooth
Cooling	oCool D5 res-combo/280 GTX/ Optimus Foundation/ gpu water block \| Blk D15
Memory	Trident-Z Royal 4000c16 2x16gb \| Trident-Z 3200c14 4x8gb
Video Card(s)	Titan Xp-water \| evga 980ti gaming-w/ air
Storage	970evo+500gb & sn850x 4tb \| 860 pro 256gb \| Acer m.2 1tb/ sn850x 4tb\| Many2.5" sata's ssd 3.5hdd's
Display(s)	1-AOC G2460PG 24"G-Sync 144Hz/ 2nd 1-ASUS VG248QE 24"/ 3rd LG 43" series
Case	D450 \| Cherry Entertainment center on Test bench
Audio Device(s)	Built in Realtek x2 with 2-Insignia 2.0 sound bars & 1-LG sound bar
Power Supply	EVGA 1000P2 with APC AX1500 \| 850P2 with CyberPower-GX1325U
Mouse	Redragon 901 Perdition x3
Keyboard	G710+x3
Software	Win-7 pro x3 and win-10 & 11pro x3
Benchmark Scores	Are in the benchmark section

System Name	Ghetto Rigs z490\|x99\|Acer 17 Nitro 7840hs/ 5600c40-2x16/ 4060/ 1tb acer stock m.2/ 4tb sn850x
Processor	10900k w/Optimus Foundation \| 5930k w/Black Noctua D15
Motherboard	z490 Maximus XII Apex \| x99 Sabertooth
Cooling	oCool D5 res-combo/280 GTX/ Optimus Foundation/ gpu water block \| Blk D15
Memory	Trident-Z Royal 4000c16 2x16gb \| Trident-Z 3200c14 4x8gb
Video Card(s)	Titan Xp-water \| evga 980ti gaming-w/ air
Storage	970evo+500gb & sn850x 4tb \| 860 pro 256gb \| Acer m.2 1tb/ sn850x 4tb\| Many2.5" sata's ssd 3.5hdd's
Display(s)	1-AOC G2460PG 24"G-Sync 144Hz/ 2nd 1-ASUS VG248QE 24"/ 3rd LG 43" series
Case	D450 \| Cherry Entertainment center on Test bench
Audio Device(s)	Built in Realtek x2 with 2-Insignia 2.0 sound bars & 1-LG sound bar
Power Supply	EVGA 1000P2 with APC AX1500 \| 850P2 with CyberPower-GX1325U
Mouse	Redragon 901 Perdition x3
Keyboard	G710+x3
Software	Win-7 pro x3 and win-10 & 11pro x3
Benchmark Scores	Are in the benchmark section

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System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
Processor	Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(

System Name	C₂H₅OH
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 5,45GHz Alphacool Core 1 Black
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E GENE
Cooling	Custom loop - MO-RA3 420 & 360 Pro - Heatkiller 200 & 150 D5 pump/res combo
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB F5-8000J4048F24GX2 8GHz 36-44-44
Video Card(s)	MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X Alphacool block
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro 1TB - Intel 660 Pro 2TB
Display(s)	Asus PG27AQDM 240Hz OLED
Case	Streacom BC1 Silver
Audio Device(s)	Topping DX7Pro - Topping A90 - Hifiman Ananda - Focal Elear - Focal Radiance - Adam A5X & Adam Sub 7
Power Supply	Corsair HX1200
Mouse	Logitech G Pro Wireless
Keyboard	Ducky One 2 SF White MX Speed Silver / Logitech MX Mechanical
Software	Windows 11 Pro

System Name	Daily Driver/Part Time
Processor	Core i7-13700K/Ryzen R5-7600
Motherboard	ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 APEX/Asrock B650 Pro RS Wi-Fi
Cooling	Corsair H150i RGB PRO XT AIO/Deep Cool LS-520 White
Memory	G-Skill Trident Z5 Silver 2x24GB DDR5-8200/XPG Lancer Blade 2X16GB DDR-5-6000
Video Card(s)	MSI Ventus 3X OC RTX-4080 Super/Sapphire Radeon RX-7800XT
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVMe 2TB/KingSpec XG 7000 4TB M.2 NVMe/Crucial P5 Plus 2TB M.2 NVMe
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DW
Case	Corsair 5000d AirFlow/Asus AP201 White
Audio Device(s)	AudioEngine D1 DAC/Onboard
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime Ultra 1K Watt/Seagotep 750W
Mouse	Corsair M65 RGB Elite
Keyboard	Adata XPG Summoner
Software	Win11 Pro 64
Benchmark Scores	Xbox Live Gamertag=jondonken