I'd also think about switching to an AMD 3950 based system, it has a much better overall performance, in most games it performs just as well as the 10900K unless you're at the highest resolutions and the highest refresh rates. What will happen is that the 10900K will throttle itself and not use its turbo mode, you'll be buying a very expensive car to drive it at 30mph. and you haven't left yourself much headroom, probably none in fact. Add in power for the drives, cooler, etc. The motherboard you have chosen doesn't limit the CPU's power draw and according to reviews in burst mode it draws 330W of power, the 2080 Ti will draw 270W at full pelt (Nvidia say it's 250W but every independent review maxes out at 270W). I'd put any money saved from those changes into M2 SSDs.Īlso, for a 10900K your PSU needs to be larger. There's a way to use it as an extended RAM drive if that's what you were intending? Otherwise I'd get rid of it. Optane, from the benchmakrs I've seen, only works when it's big and even then doesn't work very well for games as it caches the wrong info. do you ever use virtual machines or edit complexes images for hours? Probably worth having 16-32GB of memory, only a few things require more than 32GB, i.e. It's going to need all the help it can get, in boost mode with a 240mm heat sink it will hit 100 degrees, the switch to the H115i is a good idea. It may be worth keeping the paste - I added it to my 10900K after looking at its thermal performance, it's not good.

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