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***Haswell -E Owners Thread***

Just spent a small fortune on the rest of my 5920 system (now that my Gigabyte board has been refunded)

Inno3D GeForce GTX 970 OC 4096MB
MSI X99S SLI Plus Intel X99 (Socket 2011)
Arozzi Monza Gaming Chair - Red
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO
SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply Corsair Hydro H55 Quiet Liquid CPU Cooler

Hoping it will all arrive tomorrow to get it built /working (crossing everything I dont have similar board issues)
 
Looks like newer HDD drives has fixed the bios issue on X99 UD4, I can enter Bios with the new 2x ST2000DX001 SSHD now. Little worried the problem may come back but fingers crossed lol.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Looks like newer HDD drives has fixed the bios issue on X99 UD4, I can enter Bios with the new 2x ST2000DX001 SSHD now. Little worried the problem may come back but fingers crossed lol.
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Good luck - really hope it goes away for you.

After two failed boards I had had enough of the UD4, just hoping the MSI is more reliable:)
 
FrankJH said:
Good luck - really hope it goes away for you.

After two failed boards I had had enough of the UD4, just hoping the MSI is more reliable:)
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spot35 said:
I've just had to RMA my Asus X99-S board. The lights were on, but nobody was home.
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Cheers FrankJH, X99 is def having it's share of teething problems. Was your board working to start with or DOA spot35?
 
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Look what DPD guy gave me few minutes ago :] Xmas Early this year :D This should last me 3 years for CPU power gaming :]
 
I got some answers already but still feel I need to aks here :)

Hi my friends.

I'm finally getting my 4790k, so I wonder which motherboard would u say is "the best" to get in terms of OC and utilities(sound etc, something extra and useful for the future(M2)).
Im in range of 150£-200£ and thinking of these:
1. Asus Z97 Deluxe
2. MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC
3. Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force
4. Asus Maximus VII Hero

Which one you would say brings something "nice", something I should not miss....?

Thank you for your opinion! :)
 
Having a quick blast I'm getting 4.8 stable @ 1.355 vcore, mem at 2400. havnt changed anything other than multiplier yet. All good so far!

4.9 is having none of it at anything upto 1.38vcore, Any ideas what else I could change to stabilize it?

Cheers
 
StonedPenguin said:
Having a quick blast I'm getting 4.8 stable @ 1.355 vcore, mem at 2400. havnt changed anything other than multiplier yet. All good so far!

4.9 is having none of it at anything upto 1.38vcore, Any ideas what else I could change to stabilize it?

Cheers
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From what i have read set sa volts to 1.0v and also ring voltage/vccin or whatever its called to around 1.89v

I'd wait for confirmation on this first, dont have mine just yet.

Also have a look Here even if you dont have the RVE there is some useful info there
 
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Seems to be a case of you get what you pay for, with X99 boards. I've seen many asus boards with no issues at all, compared to all sorts of issues with Gigabyte boards.
 
^^ This is always the case with boards.

Asus boards are using OC socket which is not true of other manufacturers offerings. This allows you to push past 4g Cache and well over 3100 Tight on mems.

This being said Gigabyte SOCX is a great board around 3000mhz mem.
 
Dave2150 said:
Seems to be a case of you get what you pay for, with X99 boards. I've seen many asus boards with no issues at all, compared to all sorts of issues with Gigabyte boards.
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I've seen problems across all the boards, MSI / Gigabyte having boot issues with older HDD drives, experienced this personally haha. ASUS /MSI x99 actually going up in smoke,
http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-x99-motherboard-goes-up-in-smoke-for-reasons-unknown_150008
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=msi_x99_fail&num=1
and other boards with memory compatibility issues.

Personally love Gigabyte boards price VS quality, only vendor that I have never had a DOA board with lol, also they work on new bios all the time. So at least with Gigabyte you know whatever issues there are will be addressed.
 
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Managed to get a little more out of the 5960X but I'm at (over) the limit of my cooling (H100i) :(. Gotta say the ASUS OC socket is impressive. I wouldn't recommend this voltage for 24/7 use obviously.

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Memory clocking is looking good too (GSKILL Ripjaws) 3200MHz @ 1T (stock CPU)

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