8700K with Optane on cascade

[Charles Wirth]

http://z370.weebly.com/

I cover per core overclocking, real time memory latency, and Optane installation.

[Revv23]

Pumped for this - going to read right now. I am still on the fence about 8700k vs 7820x...

[Revv23]

Hey Fugg - noticed 32m was ran 100mhz higher than 1m?

[JPQY]

I see you have your own 8700K ..possible to get a Chess-bench also!

Thanks,
JP.

[Revv23]

Chess crashed at 5ghz

[JPQY]

It never crash..then your overclock is not done well..when you check my list you will see that Fugger has done a chess bench with a i9 7960X @5.2Ghz !!

JP.

[Revv23]

Sorry was just making a joke about chess bench. :Cheers:

Fugger, hadn't really considered optane as I was planning on on doing a 960pro with my next build, seems to me the way to go now is optane plus a 850pro for max performance; unless I'm missing something?

Shame you can't do optane with an .m2 drive.

[Charles Wirth]

Correct, you cannot use an M.2 with Optane as cache but it does help the Optane if you use a few fast SSD over an HDD.

You can also improve this by mem caching the Optane.

Once you feel the difference daily, you will not go back to SSD again. Kinda like the way you felt moving from HDD to SSD,

From the leaks it looks like high capacity Optane drives will be here Oct 27th.

[Revv23]

Maybe by then I'll be able to source 8700k...

Sorry for my n00bness, I want to make sure I understand optane correctly, it's strictly cache right? I.E. if the optane chip goes down I should be able to boot off the drive still without optane? Or is it full reformat and start over? Or something in-between like windows won't boot but files on drive won't be corrupted? Trying to figure out if this will be a good setup for my new office PC but I can't really afford a lot of downtime @ work.

[Charles Wirth]

I will test it to see what happens. I am thinking the drive will not boot as they might be dependent on each other after the setup.

From the tests it shows both drives as one name. Check the screen for Sysmark.

http://z370.weebly.com/optane-setup.html