6 Professor

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1.9K Posts

October 17th, 2019 14:00

4960x is the top chip for socket 2011, your X79 board's maxed out

Luke tried a Z370 m-ATX mthrbrd swap Aurora R4 ALX 8700k RTX 2080ti

The best Intel gaming chip currently available is 8-core (Gen9) 9700k & 9900k (& kf / ks)(seen in Area-51m laptop & Aurora R8/R9), requires new aftrmrkt m-ATX Z390 mthrbrd swap, newer DDR4 memory & a decent cooler

Intel's Gen10 x299 CascadeLake-X (10-18 cores) hits market in November; more for productivity than gaming but does both well, the new Area-51 will debut with those soon. Gen10 Z490 CometLake (successor to 9900k & up to 10 cores possible) expected in 2020

Check Black Friday parts on sale & sell off old hardware afterwards is one way to do it. Documenting pics / screenshots of your working alien parts before removal can't hurt

1 Rookie

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2 Posts

October 23rd, 2019 04:00

Thanks for your comments.

Truth is that I cannot complain too much of my system (Geforce 2080 SUPER and 2x SSD in RAID 0 helped a lot), as it actually still delivers a good job. So I was hoping to squeeze some 10-20% performance increase by upgrading only the CPU, without having to replace the motherboard or RAM. But fair enough, if the X79 is maxed out, is maxed out!

Having a look at your suggestions now

8 Wizard

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17.4K Posts

October 23rd, 2019 12:00

So, that covers the CPU upgrades. 

However, you don’t already have your Windows booting and running from a PCIe-based , NVMe SSD ...

Then I think that would easily give you some good overall system performance increase.

Aurora-R4 is fully UEFI compatible (AFAIK), so it seems like it should boot and work.

6 Professor

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1.9K Posts

October 23rd, 2019 16:00

For NVME boot, see Edmon (bottom Page 1 cont. P2 P3), & link to non-factory user-made Bios A11 (flash Bios firmware at own risk)

Aurora R4, boot from PCIe?

See WinRaid [Guide] How to get full NVMe support with AMI UEFI BIOS 

*See Section 'This Is What You Should Know', & sub-section "Alternative methods to use an NVMe SSD as bootable drive with older systems (no BIOS modding required)"

1."Clover-EFI Bootloader Method"

2."DUET-USB Boot Method"

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January 5th, 2020 08:00

Hi @_David_ ,

Understand that you may not want to do any replacement on motherboard and memory. But if possible to upgrade RAM with 2133MHz, it may bring you to a whole new level.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/23015516

 

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