My 7800x and Aorus 3 Gaming x299 impressions so far

[rondocap]

So I have an Intel 7800x, with an Aorus 3 gaming x299 motherboard. 

 

I upgraded from an i7 7700k and Asus Strix z270e. 

 

 So far, I am very happy with the 7800x - very stable and runs really cool. My 7700k would always hit near 80''s under heavy load, and idle around 27-30, the 7800x barely goes over 60 and idles around 19-22 with the same liquid cooler.

 

I'm using push/pull fans on a H70 - cools it very well.  

 

Only issue I've had so far is SLI, 2x GTX 1080FE were not performing in x299 - so I replaced them with a single 1080ti Asus Strix card. Shockingly good, I doubt I'll go back to SLI on 1440p unless I get a 4k monitor and they fix the SLI issues.

 

 

Ive been playing Tomb Raider and Battlefield 1, but I also use the computer for work so it's not only for gaming or else I would have kept the 7700k. (And of course, who doesn't like new tech!)

 

Easily hitting 100+FPS on Tomb Raider and BF1 with the 1080ti with everything set to ultra, and higher scaled resolutions (BF 125%) at 1440p, at 175% I get around 70FPS on ultra) 

 

As for the Aorus 3 motherboard itself - I think it's great, no issues. It's simple, does exactly what I want it to. Not as snazzy as the Asus z270e board with the software and features, but I mainly uninstall all of that software anyway and just do fan control within bios. IMO these boards should come with at least 10 USB ports though. 

 

I know that Intel is getting a lot of heat lately, and Ryzen is definitely a better value - but the 7800x in context is a very good processor at $399. I will be doing a second build with threadripper eventually, as that is definitely taking the spotlight right now. 

[Morgan MLGman]

For gaming the 7800X is worse than the 7700K and on par with the R5 1600 which is 200$ cheaper itself, I wouldn't exactly call it an upgrade

[tom_w141]

15 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

I wouldn't exactly call it an upgrade

Not for gaming but it would be if his workstation tasks have improved. Hes also not playing at 1080p so its unlikely he's cpu bound anyway

[Morgan MLGman]

20 minutes ago, tom_w141 said:

Not for gaming but it would be if his workstation tasks have improved. Hes also not playing at 1080p so its unlikely he's cpu bound anyway

Yeah, but he didn't mention anything besides gaming so I'm assuming that's what he does on his rig most of the time. Thus, paying this much for X299 platform while losing gaming performance doesn't seem like a valid upgrade to me

[Seanzky]

1 hour ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Yeah, but he didn't mention anything besides gaming so I'm assuming that's what he does on his rig most of the time. Thus, paying this much for X299 platform while losing gaming performance doesn't seem like a valid upgrade to me

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Ive been playing Tomb Raider and Battlefield 1, but I also use the computer for work so it's not only for gaming or else I would have kept the 7700k. (And of course, who doesn't like new tech!)

He actually mentioned it in his post.

[Morgan MLGman]

Just now, Seanzky said:

He actually mentioned it in his post.

My bad then! It somehow missed my eyes.

[VagabondWraith]

@rondocap

 

Congrats dude! Glad to see everything is working great for you bud! I love my X299 rig.  

[rondocap]

Thanks! I paired it with g skill 2400mhz ripjaws 4 ram in quad channel, very stable so far, no issues. 

 

It says the 7800x can do up to 2400mhz, and 7900x 2666, that's only stock speed right? Xmp profile can go higher with 7800x? 

 

[mrthuvi]

1 hour ago, rondocap said:

Thanks! I paired it with g skill 2400mhz ripjaws 4 ram in quad channel, very stable so far, no issues. 

 

It says the 7800x can do up to 2400mhz, and 7900x 2666, that's only stock speed right? Xmp profile can go higher with 7800x? 

 

Yeah stock speed, and try to get 3200mhz RAM. It will speed up 299 nicely, even more important than overclocking.

[rondocap]

30 minutes ago, mrthuvi said:

Yeah stock speed, and try to get 3200mhz RAM. It will speed up 299 nicely, even more important than overclocking.

Any recommendation on ram? Running ripjaws 4 at 2400, had hyper x at 2666 in my 7700k system. 

 

 

[done12many2]

4 minutes ago, rondocap said:

Any recommendation on ram? Running ripjaws 4 at 2400, had hyper x at 2666 in my 7700k system. 

 

 

 

I was able to overclock a 4 x 8 kit of G.Skill TridentZ 3200 c14 to 3800 MHz with some aggressive timings using a 7900X.  That returned 100+ GB/s reads, 100+GB/s writes, and 97 GB/s copy with 50ns latency.  Great memory and should be considered for x299.

 

G.Skill is releasing 4000 MHz + quad channel kits for x299 as well so that's something else to consider.

 

The IMCs on Skylake-X CPUs are very strong.  

 

Good luck.