Getting a 3930k, motherboard suggestions?

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I am going to be getting a 3930k soon and I need a motherboard, I looked at the P9X79 Pro, does anyone have any suggestions on a motherboard. I am wanting to OC the 3930k a bit, like to 4.2, and would like to RAID two decent SSDs.

Also, is there any chance of a price cut for the 3930k anytime soon?
 
Not sure about a cut in price, doubtful until Ivy Bridge-E tbh.

As for motherboards, the two i would suggest are both ASUS.

Asus X79 Sabertooth -- http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-489-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2174
I have this board and love it, it's bullet proof, looks great, wells space PCI-E slots, keeps cool and overclocks well.

Asus Rampage IV Extreme --http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-490-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2174
Best X79 board for overclocking, especially when it comes to memory tuning.
 
Rossi~ said:
Not sure about a cut in price, doubtful until Ivy Bridge-E tbh.

As for motherboards, the two i would suggest are both ASUS.

Asus X79 Sabertooth -- http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-489-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2174
I have this board and love it, it's bullet proof, looks great, wells space PCI-E slots, keeps cool and overclocks well.

Asus Rampage IV Extreme --http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-490-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2174
Best X79 board for overclocking, especially when it comes to memory tuning.
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Those both look like great boards, but are quite expensive, after all I am only going for a small OC of about 1Ghz. And does OCing memory really make that much difference?
 
I have the P9X79 Pro which is a fine MB and also good to overclock. Was tempted to go for the Sabretooth but dismissed it at the last moment as I don't like any active cooling on my MB due to potential noise and fan failure.
 
If it was a return then why was it returned, was it an OC gone wrong, damaged or maybe it wasn't a very good manufacture and only OCed like 10% or something. You just don't know, and the thing you probably do know is that it wasn't returned unused and just because the original purchaser changed their mind.
 
The formula is a very good board and at that price its an absolute bargain. If its faulty you return it. You cant loose really.
 
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But why's it so heavily discounted?
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My guess is its been returned but there is nothing wrong with it and then put out again after testing in which case it cant be sold as new.

Or maybe as others ave suggested something like the BF3 code is missing so it got RMA'd. People RMA for ridiculous things often working products that they cant understand and dont want to learn.

The formula is a great board one of the best X79 available. I am tempted to buy it to mess about with and ASUS support me on motherboards as the formula often clocks RAM better than the xtreme.
 
Having used my msg gd65 8d for a couple of weeks now it's a sweet board so easy to overlook with it. Also a bit cheaper then most of the asks boards.
 
Your going to find most boards only have two sata 3 6gb ports on the intel controller making what your asking impossible. Evan the RIVE does not offer this.
 
What about RAID, would any board be able to RAID 3 or 4 SSDs to give a throughput of about 1400\1900mbps?
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If you want to go down that route have you looked at a OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 which is 4 SSDs in RAID0 on a PCIe card that give the above throughput.
 
The cheapest RevoDrive is £569.99, while the 128GB Samsung 830 is less then £80.
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Things may have improved in recent times but I once tried SSDs in RAID0 on an X58 system and found 1 2 or 3 SSDs were not a problem but going for 4 SSDs in RAID0 caused all sorts of reliability problems. I now have a pile of 6 OCZ Vertex SSDs which are totally bricked.

You may be ok if you go down that route things maybe better now. I do not think you can find a x79 Mobo with 4 sata 3 6gb ports that can run in RAID0.

The other thing I found on X58 using sata 2 with a 4 way RAID0 setup was thoughput was limited by other things on the mobo and nerver got close to 1000mbps the 4 SSDs were capable of.
 
Kaapstad said:
Things may have improved in recent times but I once tried SSDs in RAID0 on an X58 system and found 1 2 or 3 SSDs were not a problem but going for 4 SSDs in RAID0 caused all sorts of reliability problems. I now have a pile of 6 OCZ Vertex SSDs which are totally bricked.

You may be ok if you go down that route things maybe better now. I do not think you can find a x79 Mobo with 4 sata 3 6gb ports that can run in RAID0.

The other thing I found on X58 using sata 2 with a 4 way RAID0 setup was thoughput was limited by other things on the mobo and nerver got close to 1000mbps the 4 SSDs were capable of.
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I'm starting to think that 2 SSDs in RAID might be a better idea, the main reason why I wanted 3 or 4 is to give more space as 256GB is not a lot.
 
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