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Regarding QUESTION 1: I found room for the LED controller and wired it all up. I figured that since it was there, I should try it. It is nice looking, I'll admit, but this LED stuff does seem to be a bit overdone. Regarding QUESTION 2: Nevermind; see #1 above. Regarding QUESTION 3: Since I...

Okay, I went with the i9-9900k. I wasn't hearing great things about i7-9800X overclocking. My build: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3876604/9900k-build-leaving-led-bling-disconnected.html

Okay, I’m starting my new build. For my most recent build, see http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3806325/upgrade-x99-haswell-core-5820.html As for my background, I've done numerous builds over the last couple of decades, but don't build very often. So, I'm not really feeling like I'm up...

First 9800x overclock report that I've seen. Not encouraging. https://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/792775-Intel-i7-9800x-mini-review

X299 and i7-9800X Skylake-X platform Basin Falls refresh: Pro: More PCI lanes, bigger package may allow better cooling and thus overclocking than Z390 Intel Core i9-9900K. Quad-channel memory. Con: Lower clock rate on-paper before you overclock. No hardware-based mitigation for the Meltdown and...

When will benchmarks on i7-9800X go off NDA? As far as I can tell i7-9800X in still its paper-launch phase. https://ark.intel.com/products/189122/Intel-Core-i7-9800X-X-series-Processor-16-5M-Cache-up-to-4-50-GHz-...

Question: Should I update to the Z390 Intel Core i9-9900K Coffee Lake refresh, which would drop me back to 2-channel memory, or update to the X299 and i7-9800X platform Basin Falls refresh? Or wait to see what AMD does with 7 mm process mid-year 2019? Z390 and Intel Core i9-9900K Coffee Lake...