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It took some time for the 1080ti to become a mini card I suggest watching the trade shows. When a company comes up with a mini or a small version of a big card it normally makes a big splash. Till then though the 1080ti mini is still a good card. Before I was running a fury nano before my 1080ti mini card. I built a tiny PC in the 110: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/9tQZxr I've updated since then, but I've been a bit lazy to update the page. I'm moving into a new direction with my next update of the PC. Ill be using the ideas from both the 110 and the Lazer3d LZ7 and cramming them into one case. I might make 10 cases and sell them but time will tell.

Just to update I contacted Zotac on the water cooled version (air version just went on sale). They responded they have cut the water version from the line up...

till ryzen releases... Also Coffee is already tapped out, its a process improvement over kaby so dont expect much. The high end is supposed to have 6 cores though. That is still a farcry from AMD's 8 core Ryzen 7. Intel's coffee i7s will be a max of 6 threads...

Yeah we are going to need a FX-9590 and lots of liquid nitrogen

Not really in this day and age, most memory controllers can handle the differences. If this was years ago back in DDR and DDR2 yeah Id try to get as close to the original ones as possible. Today no memory controllers are so advanced it doesn't really matter. The only exception is if your pegging everything with time critical data then Id also have the memory do some checking work with ECC and what not. But for a gaming or home computer that really doesn't matter.

IMHO we are probably looking at a new socket for more PCIe lanes. PGA is just less dense than LGA.

IMHO the Rizen 5 (1600) are priced around the I5s... IMHO there is no longer a reason to get a quad core/I5/I7 after ryzen's 6 cores come out.

It will just "wait" till the register is filed. Artificially inflating the time. It will still only be as fast as the slowest dimm in the channel. If it needs to read across the memory space. o well as slow*

Yes, new HBM and various memory tech are so fast they are saturating the PCIe lanes.

They will all lower to the lowest CAS MHz ect...

Depends, right now AMD's PGA interface is probably at its max pin density. Thats why in AMD's server applications they used LGA like intel.

Im guessing they are using the 4 extra pcie lanes dedicated to a m.2 SSD directly attached to the CPU and not through the south bridge. It would make sense considering they are trying to reduce latency for GPUs and what not. Im speculating that ryzen CPUs and vega/ newer GCN GPUs might be able to use the SSD as another swap space/paging file.

Right now not really coffee lake is having problems and their next gen 10nm process is botched. From the rumor mill they are also having internal problems. AMD's ryzen wafer yields are supposedly ridiculous. The die is also 10% smaller than Intel's CPUs. That is why AMD can sell these at their current prices... Anyway intel really cant sell at a loss right now, they are cornered and hard at that. Expect a price drop to barely profitable margins.

here is the bench run never changes its levels... I've even started messing with the memory on the motherboard... http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7557487

Im talking with amd about it... Ive: turned off ULPS clean wiped drivers and progressively installed all the way back to the original 15.7 release of the windows 10 drivers flashed the MB BIOS flashed the R9 295X2 BIOSes reinstalled windows 10 At this point I think its a windows 10 issue brought about by Microsoft and its updates Im going to try and move back and try windows 8.1 and see if the issues follows.