Any suggestions for a cheap x79 motherboard?

Resa69

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If anyone has had first hand experience it would be great. It will house a 4930k which I'll overclock to the max, it ideally needs to be under 200 quid.
 
Not going to be overclocking to the max on a 4930K and a cheap X79 motherboard IMO - need the uprated power stages on the more expensive boards.

The UD3 is ok but not without some little issues and not really a board for anything other than a middle of the road overclock.
 
Rroff said:
Not going to be overclocking to the max on a 4930K and a cheap X79 motherboard IMO - need the uprated power stages on the more expensive boards.

The UD3 is ok but not without some little issues and not really a board for anything other than a middle of the road overclock.
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As far as I know you don't need the best motherboard to push the cpu? I'm aiming for about 4.6/ 4.7 and these motherboards seem to have about 8 or 9 power phases
 
stulid said:
Should be able to do that with a UD3, having a big cooler will certainly help.
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It will be under water with a 480/60 rad so cooling shouldn't be an issue. However I've got 8 ram sticks so I need a motherboard with 8 slots
 
Hmmmm, I think you will find that problem on a lot X79 boards as they have many more slots than a regular board and these all have to be within a certain amount of room to keep within ATX spec.

Unless you can find a E-ATX sized board that will require a case with more expansion slots and thus spreads the PCI-E slots out a bit better.
 
Resa69 said:
As far as I know you don't need the best motherboard to push the cpu? I'm aiming for about 4.6/ 4.7 and these motherboards seem to have about 8 or 9 power phases
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Have a lot harder work pushing my 4820K on this UD3 than other X79 setups I have experience of and the 8+1 phase is definitely not as robust as the UD5+.

Somewhat regret buying this UD3 now - other UD3 boards in previous generations have been great no frills boards that still had very solid basic features that were as good as the higher end boards just not as feature rich - but this is very much a budget board (as far as budget ever goes with X79).
 
Rroff said:
Have a lot harder work pushing my 4820K on this UD3 than other X79 setups I have experience of and the 8+1 phase is definitely not as robust as the UD5+.

Somewhat regret buying this UD3 now - other UD3 boards in previous generations have been great no frills boards that still had very solid basic features that were as good as the higher end boards just not as feature rich - but this is very much a budget board (as far as budget ever goes with X79).
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Would the same go for the ud5? I want a rive be to badly but its just too much on a motherboard.
 
stulid said:
Hmmmm, I think you will find that problem on a lot X79 boards as they have many more slots than a regular board and these all have to be within a certain amount of room to keep within ATX spec.

Unless you can find a E-ATX sized board that will require a case with more expansion slots and thus spreads the PCI-E slots out a bit better.
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Actually i just checked that to run it in x16/x16 there are 4 slots between the top of gpu1 and gpu2!
 
You'll only get 2 slots running at 16x on an X79 chipset board, but the difference between running at 16x or 8x is barely noticable
 
Resa69 said:
Actually i just checked that to run it in x16/x16 there are 4 slots between the top of gpu1 and gpu2!
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Its the 1st+3rd slots you use for 2way.

For some stupid reason I thought you also said 3way triple slot thick cards and not 2way:p
 
stulid said:
Its the 1st+3rd slots you use for 2way.

For some stupid reason I thought you also said 3way triple slot thick cards and not 2way:p
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Oh no way does it look like I want to fry my computer :p
3 way is for water but ill see how 2 way goes on air. 1st and 3rd should allow to keep things running cool if I can get good airflow right?
 
BattFink said:
You'll only get 2 slots running at 16x on an X79 chipset board, but the difference between running at 16x or 8x is barely noticable
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Yes I am aware of both those points but I just want to make the most of what's available to me if you know what I mean
 
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