Need a X79 motherboard fast

Dark Light · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:38

I am getting a 3930k, I need to choose a motherboard by Thursday for various reasons. I am looking for a all round good motherboard that isn't that expensive, I will be overclocking the 3930k to about 4.2Ghz. In addition I would like to RAID 2 SSDs with the onboard controller.

Any suggestions?

stulid · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:46

Gigabyte X79 UD3?

Dark Light · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:55

stulid said:
Gigabyte X79 UD3?

Only 4 DDR3 slots, not that I am going to use more then that, the UD3 does seem to be on the cheap side. And as far as I remember the UD5 has 6, which is completely pointless and the UD7 is too expensive.

jeff6475 · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:59

ud5 has 8

stulid · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:01

I dont consider £170 as being cheap, the UD5 has the full eight RAM slots and includes a WiFi/Bluetooth card.

pgi947 · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:02

ASRock Extreme4?

What sort of budget are you looking at?

UD7's are like gold dust atm.

Dark Light · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:05

I'm looking in the range of about the p9x79 to the UD5.

pgi947 · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:09

I'd go for the UD5 (£240), either that or stretch the budget out a little to the RIVF (~£279).

The P9X79 is also a good board (£206) but its all kinds of ugly

Dark Light · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:12

pgi947 said:
I'd go for the UD5 (£240), either that or stretch the budget out a little to the RIVF (~£279).

The P9X79 is also a good board (£206) but its all kinds of ugly

RIVF?

pgi947 · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:13

stulid · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:14

Rampage four formula?

pgi947 · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:15

Bingo

Dark Light · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:19

That board does seem good, but would it be worth it for things like RAID and OCing?

pgi947 · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:22

It will do both with relative ease, the RIVE & RIVF are firm faves for overclocking on X79.

stulid · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:25

Even the cheaper boards will easily manage that OC, Gigabyte's X79-UD3 With New F7 BIOS Sets X79 Records, Dec 2011

Dark Light · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:25

pgi947 said:
It will do both with relative ease, the RIVE & RIVF are firm faves for overclocking on X79.

Yes, but I am only going to be OCing on air and not that much to about 4.2.

pgi947 · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:29

Tbh even the lower end boards will manage that OC on air as you are only heading 400mhz over the turbo of the 3930K.

Its up to you bud, if your budget allows it I'd go for either the UD5/UD7 or RIVF/RIVE, if you want to save some pennies then look at the Extreme4 & UD3

All above mentioned boards (and the others) will do what you are asking.

{SAS}TB · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:32

More than happy with my Sabretooth

although with two 2 1/2 slot GPUs i cant use my Asus Xonar as the pci slots are covered :s

Dark Light · 30 Jul 2012 at 21:14

What about the p9x79, I hear that the normal p9x79 is better then the pro in some areas, is that true and are those good boards?

Also, how does the Intel chip fair at RAIDing SSDs?

pgi947 · 30 Jul 2012 at 21:19

Afaik RAID is down to the chipset (X79) not the chip, so on the RAID side of things all the boards should be just about equal.

Usually on Asus boards outside of the ROG branding (Pro/Deluxe) the only differences tend to be the amount of connectivity (sata/USB ports), the amount of phases and some extra peripherals.