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wear sunscreen kids I'm sure many of you have been wondering why I haven't been so active with Intel lately I haven't talked much about the X 299 chipset the LGA 2066 socket it's because for 99% of you that entire platform is stupid it's a prime example of intel's misguided and ill-informed marketing strategy intended to redirect your attention from the red team we've seen this ploy time and time again and not just with a PC tech industry do not be fooled what you're looking at here is almost an exact replica of the i7 7700 K yes folks this is the i7 77 40 X behold it's nothing different stay away the specs one I've been almost every way save oh here we go a whopping point one gigahertz base frequency bump are you freakin kidding me you also can only run up two dual channel Macs in the CPU even though it's required X 299 motherboard has slots for 8 modules in quad-channel so four of those will have to be blank unless you want to put stuff there just for show this list continues by the way into even more pathetic territory brace yourselves I'm about to unleash on the blue team and it's about time let's ignore all of what we've heard regarding the X 299 platform to date even the reviews the benchmarks at this point clear your head close your eyes and listen to these ridiculous facts I'm about to save you a bunch of money the first of these that Intel decided this time around to cut into your PCIe lanes across the board with the exception of the $1,000 chip if you want an 8 core 16 threaten thews iasts processor good for you you're only going to get 28 PCIe lanes actually a downgrade from the 59 60 X in 69 hundred K counterparts what sense if any does it make City enthusiasts consumer now I'm saying that on purpose because that's the 1% here you are more than likely in the 99% Club which means that you won't be able to fully utilize or getting we're close to full utilizing the 8 cores 16 threads 10 cores 20 threads available in these higher tiered CPUs that are going to cost upwards of a thousand bucks it's just a fact even I don't utilize that much is why I'm scoring at 6700 K in my daily editing rig I don't need anything more than that chances are you don't either and even if you could find an excuse for those 4 cores or 8 cores and then enthusiast X $2.99 platform you have other options that are much cheaper frankly ninety-seven z170 izzy 270x 370 be 350 risin is a compelling offer now sure the x2 99 eight core sixteen thread CPU here is only priced at five ninety-nine which is a considerable bump down from the 59 60 I can 16 under case prices which are still roughly at a thousand the US so the prices come down but that's not the point here price is not the issue when it comes to enthusiast grade CPUs it's what you get for that price if you're going to pay 600 bucks well you better expect some compromises but then why are you even considering X 299 in the first place if you're going to expect those compromises you want the full 40 44 PCIe lanes you have to buy the most expensive processor in the current lineup and that's a bit ridiculous if you ask me the 78 20 X here has literally taken an arrow to the need regardless of the fact that most graphics cards run on eight lanes just as well as 16 pairing 3 or 4 of anything becomes well pointless and isn't that the point of an enthusiast platform to have that upgrade option available consider MDOT to raise and 10 Gigabit Ethernet as well and since Intel sets this platform up to last at least three or four years the idea of future proofing for potential Vega and voltic cards for example which may require the full 16 lanes each goes completely out the window look in terms of gaming about the only people who should be considering the X 299 platform are those who are going to pair 3 or 4 graphics cards into the same rig now they can't do that with Pascal but they can do that with Maxwell they can do that with crossfire configurations on AMD side so it kind of makes sense to have those extra PCIe lanes there because you will at some point utilizes you can do eight eight eight eight and still be completely in the green with 44 PCIe lanes but you have to spend a thousand bucks to even get that in the first place so what the heck is going on Intel's giving you the finger want the lanes pay up I was so surprised when I saw the lane counts I was really disappointed but on from that even the motherboards themselves are going to be extremely expensive expect to pay around 300 bucks if not more for a motherboard just to put your CPU in for the sex $2.99 platform now that's not surprising itself x-series lineups have always been expensive so we have the x79 boards the x99 boards and now the x-29 boards and they've all been around the same prices anywhere between 250 and maybe 600 bucks they can get very expensive but here's the issue I have with with the board prices and something like an i7 77 40 X if you're paying more for your motherboard than you are for your CPU something is not right in fact it's just downright ridiculous and how you know you're not PC incorrectly like why do these two even exist like why even bother because Intel's banking on your sale hopefully this stops you and your tracked especially for these two here like why the hell is a four core for that CPU even in its mix I'm trying to do you a favor here by the way I'm not trying to just bash on Intel the point of this video is to save you money and to save you from a product that ultimately isn't worth your money and if you notice I'm not even really discussing X 299 applications they won't really apply to most of you watching but I can say that safely I try to talk a friend out of X 299 a few days ago he was so into it so sold on the product from a marketing standpoint that I really couldn't convince him to eat the small IPC drop in favor of Rison 7 I said look if you want eight cores and 16 threads go Rising seven save yourself at least 500 bucks sure optimizations tend to tilt at least at this point in time in favor of the blue team but maybes come a long way and they offer compelling price points and for 99% of you made cores is more than enough for your daily computing needs so it sounds tempting I get it I purchased a thousand dollar CPU and fell right into that trap I realized that well the extra four cores really weren't doing me much good in anything that I was working on daily just for the channel or on social media or what-have-you I even do a bunch of blender tests and stuff and I just didn't find the extra money the $700 into that CPU and the more expensive motherboard worth it and I have a feeling that most of you will feel the same way so save yourself the trouble just don't bother in the first place the truth is most programs fall well short of max thread utilization the law of diminishing returns becomes more evident when more money is on the table so save it stick with z97 z170 z 270 be 350 X 370 those are all viable platforms and this current point in time all viable chipsets and you will not notice a huge performance cut you'll save a heck a lot of money by the way in the process but for those of you who do think that you will reap the benefits of X 299 I keep getting all the X's and Z's and all it confused I'm not saying you shouldn't buy it I mean if you know you're going to utilize the threads you know you really like the horsepower you need a new platform a beer on x79 right now and you want something new and or then the platform is still viable for you I get it I'm not saying that for the one percent or so of you that do utilize those resources you shouldn't buy it I think it's still decent I just think it doesn't really appeal to most of us and that's what this video is intended to do to warn most of you to not fall into this marketing ploy with that if you like my sunburn or like the video be sure to give this one a thumbs up thumbs down for the opposite or if you hate everything about life be sure to please 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