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
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!
*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)"
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.
Cass-Ole
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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
_David_
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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
Tesla1856
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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.
Cass-Ole
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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"
bmcowboy
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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