Need help with a 2011-V3 board

Hi guys,

So wasn't sure to go with a 5930K or 5820K, would have gone 6xxxX but with the issue on Win7 with Skylake (regardless of some USB workaround fix ?!?) - I cba. Even though it looks like it would be cheaper.

Anyway, thoughts etc. on a mobo that could accomodate?

It's a blue/white/black scheme btw.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GA-X99-Designare EX Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £399.95
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Designare Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £179.99

Two boards, one for Skylake and one for Haswell-E/Broadwell-E

Stulid is there any reason why you would pick the Gigabyte GA-X99-Designare board over the Rampage V Extreme USB 3.1 Intel X99 ?
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...ket-2011-ddr4-eatx-motherboard-mb-640-as.html

As am looking at upgrading to a x99 setup and I been eyeing up this asus motherboard..(Partly due to I like the extra OC/fan Panel thing you get with it)


Edit: I just noticed that the asus one is a E-ATX board..

The RAMPAGE is from the first bunch of X99, Wasnt even as good an overclocker as the SOC Champion which is roughly half its price.


StriX, Edition 10 are more current releases and thus have maybe some newer stuff such as typeC USB I think.

m.2 could also be limited, some early ones didnt do 32GB/S bandwidth (not sure if the Rampage does as ASUS site doesnt say)


The X99 Designare does 3 or 4way SLI even with a 5820K or 6800K which has just 28lanes (the others are all 40lane chips), it does this because it has PLX to double the number of lanes coming from the CPU.

It also does something with Displayport where you can feed a signal into it from a GFX card, it then sends it back out mixed with Thunderbolt3.0 via USB typeC and into a big box full of connectors (not released yet) that has all sort of connectors, see 4min 25sec - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDwcJbr_eU&list=PLgYEU1QvJOL9S4gfAxPNc5NczD-oYC7tP&index=12

The Gigabyte GA-X99-Designare is the board I wanted, but cannot justify the price of north of £350!

I'm using the Asus X99-A+5820k+DDR4 below cracking mobo-

Asus X99-A II Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard-£249
Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit-£79

At the lower price points Strix is king now. It has same vrm as Rampage V 10 and is clocking very well.

Strix really that good? I'm looking at changing my gigabyte soc force for one with more features like sub 3.1 etc.

Would the strix fir the bill?

8 Pack said:

At the lower price points Strix is king now. It has same vrm as Rampage V 10 and is clocking very well.

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Agreed, loving mine

Well hope you're right, got one coming tomorrow. Seems a bargain at 250 quid

Nice choice

Any tips whyscotty