Motherboard for i7 5960x

[3LP]

Few years ago I was swearing with Asus but had loads of boards for a farm and had enormous amount if issues, since then went only for gigabyte and Asrock and Asrock is the best by far. Had to go asus for my last build and it confirmed it was a pretty bad decision. Wont go back with them and I'll stick to asrock for now on. I'd like to try Evga but they are hard to find in my region.

Stan

[Donald2B]

Few years ago I was swearing with Asus but had loads of boards for a farm and had enormous amount if issues, since then went only for gigabyte and Asrock and Asrock is the best by far. Had to go asus for my last build and it confirmed it was a pretty bad decision. Wont go back with them and I'll stick to asrock for now on. I'd like to try Evga but they are hard to find in my region.

Stan

Yeah...this last round was pretty good for the motherboards I got. Only 1 out of 10 wouldn't post, but that was due to poor information regarding the type of RAM. Once I got that straightened out all was good.

Your experience is why I rarely say X brand is the best. I've had Asus/MSI/ASRock/Gigabyte/Tyan/Supermicro all work flawlessly and be a complete nightmare for no reason. It's a chance one has to take. I just hope that the chipset has had a little chance to mature enough so most of the "major" hiccups have been worked out by either bios updates or chipset drivers.

[baastyan]

I rarely say X brand is the best. I've had Asus/MSI/ASRock/Gigabyte/Tyan/Supermicro all work flawlessly and be a complete nightmare for no reason.

Senteces like the one obove makes my decision even more difficult than before I started this thread.

[baastyan]

Great questions.

I've got great cooling (see below).

I did used to have it at 4250 and that was fine, but about 2 weeks ago I had to upgrade my ram from 32 to 64 and that wasn't as easy as any previous ram upgrade had been (DDR4 ram in my experience with that mobo has some important bios settings needed, which few people seem to know about, including ASUS technical).

Anyway, when I upgraded to 64 I could only do so by returning the pc to unclocked and re-oc'ing it afterwards.

I then noticed that the temps were higher than normal and as I was in the middle of a project (not the best time to choose to be messing with ram upgrades etc), I decided to keep it to 3875 which gives me temps no higher than 65 degs under full load.

65 degs is my preferred maximum and I could have sworn it was 65 degs at 4250 so I'll see what's up and perhaps play with the voltages etc to get myself back up to that processor speed.

But honestly, I'm very happy at 3875. It's running perfectly and is only marginally slower than before when running test renders at 4250.

Do you think that if you had taken another brand/model for Mobo or for RAM you could OC your machine up 4,2 and still keeping 64GB?
I have dual xeon x5670 OC at 4,07 GHz and it performes now similar to i7 5960x at 3,6 GHz. So if I can not OC i7 5960x up to 4,2-4,4 GHz then it is not so tempting to upgrade my workstation.

[3LP]

beside the fact that a single threaded operation will be faster on the 5960x, but I agree, this might not be a suffisant argument to update

for the ram upgrade, did you purchased a whole set of 64 Gb or did you buy another set of 32 that you sticked in with the already plugged in 32 you had?
This makes a difference because although theoretically it shouldn't matter with normal use, when you start to OC your hardware, you're pushing it to the edge. Ram is known (any of it) to be slightly different from lot to lot. That's exactly why they sell bundles of ram (8*4, 8*8, etc) because all of them are issued from the same lot, and that should diminish the delta of potential errors you can encounter when OC.
So if you did buy two sets of 32gb, I would recommend selling your 32 kits and buy one of 64. That will help getting the OC back stable the same way you had it with 32 previously.

Does that make sense?

Stan

[AndresAhumada]

Come on guys!!! tomshardware or other tech web.

Google search.. best motherboard for stable OC lga 2011 v3


Always EVGA or any hi-end motherboard.

[auke]

Come on guys!!! tomshardware or other tech web.

Google search.. best motherboard for stable OC lga 2011 v3


Always EVGA or any hi-end motherboard.

Not sure if you are trolling, paid by EVGA or defending your choice for an EVGA mb to yourself.... EVGA is usually good but this is getting silly.


@Opening poster, do you have any demands concerning multiple GPU's?

[AndresAhumada]

EVGA would be fascinating to pay me for advertising but it is not.
In fact I Tranto to say that all high-end motherboards is recommended.
On the one hand the number of layers of the plate and on the other hand the faces of power that underlie the electrical estabildiad.
When I talk about EVGA it is for the support they have for bios that are very sensitive and important part. These stability control everything.

[Streetwise]

Like the original poster, I'm ready to purchase as well. I've been looking at the ASUS X99 Deluxe as many have recommended for the 5960x, BUT looking at the ratings on Newegg and Amazon seem to suggest a pretty mixed bag of reviews. EVGA does sound interesting, but would it support two GSU's, say 980TI 's or even Titan Blacks?

Dave

[3LP]

We just purchased 5 new workstations and went with the Gigabyte X99-SLI ATX (MBG-X99-SLI)
Hope it's a good one

Stan