The MSI X299 SLI Plus Motherboard Review: $232 with U.2
by Joe Shields on November 29, 2017 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- MSI
- X299
- Skylake-X
- Kaby Lake-X
- SLI Plus
Gaming Performance 2017: AoTS Escalation
AoTS
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any system differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
Nothing too much to note here. The SLI Plus is right with the other boards tested.
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Lolimaster - Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - link
*buyBillyONeal - Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - link
Threadripper has all the same problems. Huge socket == small area for VRM, and 180W TDP. At least in my testing TR 1950X consumes well over 250W when running at 3.9 GHz.Lolimaster - Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - link
Why would you buy a handycapped X299 when AMD's X399 platform is better in every possible way?mkaibear - Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - link
Ah, still spreading your usual fear, uncertainty and doubt I see.I'll reply the same way I did before;
https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1904?vs=19...
That's why (note not identical parts because it's a 12 core TR vs an 8 core i7 - but they are as close as I can get in terms of costs). If I went the other way and went with a 10 core i9 vs the 16 core TR then we see roughly the same pattern of behaviour.
Threadripper wins in the multithreaded tests so long as the workload suits it but for the many benchmarks it's per-core speed which is more important than number of cores.
In essence, if your work requires fast cores and quite a few threads then you're better off with the i7 or i9, if it utilizes loads of threads but speed is less important then you're better off with the TR.
So; given that there are obvious use cases for both processors I'm afraid I can't agree that "Threadripper X399 is better in every possible way".
I note you didn't bother to reply before, but it'll be interesting to see if you manage to string a coherent sentence together this time.
mkaibear - Friday, December 1, 2017 - link
...hey look at that, he doesn't bother to reply. What a shock...BillyONeal - Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - link
Because you have a workload Threadripper isn't as good at? Building the compiler my 7980XE box is ~40% faster than my 1950X box. TR has much better price/performance but that's not an end-all, be-all metric.Lolimaster - Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - link
Even better when the 1950X is $800 right now.BillyONeal - Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - link
Agreed; at that price the 1950X invalidates the 1920X even more than it used to. (Saving $200 on a CPU when the rest of the system costs ~1.5k seems like a waste)BenJeremy - Thursday, November 30, 2017 - link
More VROC nonsense. Officially, you are not supposed to be able to buy the VROC upgrade key - vendors are supposed to provide you with a means to get one. Until you PAY MORE ($126 for VROCSTANMOD), you will be stuck with a hobbled system that cannot create bootable RAID-0 arrays unless you use Optane SSDs.Meanwhile, X399/ThreadRipper offers bootable RAID-0 for your NVMe array for FREE and it's been demonstrated at higher speeds than Intel's promised with VROC.
Edward190 - Saturday, December 2, 2017 - link
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