Looking For X99 Board - Any Suggestions?

jwilliamson47 · 7 Jun 2018 at 16:08

Hi all,

I'm looking at getting an X99 board for the 5820K and see some pretty wild pricing with some good prices and others being really expensive.

Looking at the X99 Strix Gaming, Gigabyte SOC-Champion and MSI XPower Titanium.

Which would you recommend? I know the platform isn't the latest but the 5820K is still ample for gaming tasks.

PowerPie5000 · 10 Jun 2018 at 22:44

I would personally stay away from Asus boards when it comes to the X99 platform as the failure rate seems a tad high. I've had a pair of them stop booting for no apparent reason and everything was running stock (Asus X99A and also the X99A II)…. Luckily my processor didn't fry which seems to have happened to a few people with Asus X99 boards. I ended up with an MSI X99A Gaming 7 in the end and it's been fine so far apart from an odd booting issue with a Corsair keyboard (I'll put it down to Corsairs iffy firmware).

Look up Asus X99 red LED faults and the "00" code. I never got the "00" code with mine, they just ended up refusing to boot/POST for some unknown reason.

jwilliamson47 · 10 Jun 2018 at 23:41

PowerPie5000 said:
I would personally stay away from Asus boards when it comes to the X99 platform as the failure rate seems a tad high. I've had a pair of them stop booting for no apparent reason and everything was running stock (Asus X99A and also the X99A II)…. Luckily my processor didn't fry which seems to have happened to a few people with Asus X99 boards. I ended up with an MSI X99A Gaming 7 in the end and it's been fine so far apart from an odd booting issue with a Corsair keyboard (I'll put it down to Corsairs iffy firmware).

Look up Asus X99 red LED faults and the "00" code. I never got the "00" code with mine, they just ended up refusing to boot/POST for some unknown reason.

That's a good point. After posting this I read about ASUS boards frying the CPU as a result of overvolting. Ended up opting for another manufacturer and probably going to order the Gigabyte X99-SOC Champion soon. Seems like a solid board with lots of diagnostic options.

PowerPie5000 · 10 Jun 2018 at 23:50

Asrock appeared to do pretty well when it came to the X99 platform. My other choice over the MSI board I currently have was the Asrock X99 Taichi which I would have also been happy with.

WJA96 · 11 Jun 2018 at 09:56

X99 boards come up on Member's Market all the time. And they're not £200 either!

I've had excellent success with ASRock boards (the micro-ATX and extreme boards are both very good).

ttaskmaster · 11 Jun 2018 at 10:55

I'm running a 5820K on an Asus X99 Pro USB 3.1 board and it's been absolutely fine at 4.5GHz.
Can be had fairly cheap, from the looks of things.

faheemrazzaq · 11 Jun 2018 at 10:59

Doesn't get better than that. 100£ for Gigabyte x99 Soc. B-grade but at this price a bargain.

X99 Gigabyte SOC CHAMPION INTEL X99

jwilliamson47 · 11 Jun 2018 at 11:52

faheemrazzaq said:
Doesn't get better than that. 100£ for Gigabyte x99 Soc. B-grade but at this price a bargain.

X99 Gigabyte SOC CHAMPION INTEL X99

So much motherboard for the price!

FlyingScotsman · 24 Jun 2018 at 08:25

faheemrazzaq said:
Doesn't get better than that. 100£ for Gigabyte x99 Soc. B-grade but at this price a bargain.

X99 Gigabyte SOC CHAMPION INTEL X99

I had one of these that died after 2 weeks, ended up getting an Asus X99 Strix, been rock solid running my 6950X @4.4 no issue what so ever.
I think the newer bios revisions sorted the issues with frying chips.

shamus21 · 25 Jun 2018 at 10:32

The chip frying issues are long gone Asus have done a good job with X99 about the best M/B`s for 6 -8 and 10 cores.

Disco_P · 25 Jun 2018 at 13:57

I've had an MSI X99s SLI Krait and an Asus X99 Pro. Neither are "high end" X99 boards but both been absolutely perfect with my 5820K.

I'd probably just go with what is available and cheap. FWIW the X99 SOC is an E-ATX board so make sure it fits in your case.

Anders Jorgensen · 25 Jun 2018 at 14:49

Look for brand support, Your needs in a X99 board and then your own trust as with pc hardware you have to estalish awareness on what different manufactures do for you overall. You might get lucky and you got a part that will last 10 years. Maybe the support is non existent and so forth.

ZXSpectrum · 25 Jun 2018 at 15:05

Asus had the best X99 board imho and that was the X99-E WS. Great board... Not cheap though.

TangoEchoAlpha · 26 Jun 2018 at 23:47

Op, are you still looking for a X99 motherboard?

jwilliamson47 · 4 Jul 2018 at 21:19

TangoEchoAlpha said:
Op, are you still looking for a X99 motherboard?

Afraid not, managed to get sell my CPU for a good price and move platform.

Cheers!

TangoEchoAlpha · 4 Jul 2018 at 21:30

jwilliamson47 said:
Afraid not, managed to get sell my CPU for a good price and move platform.

Cheers!

No worries, I potentially had one available gratis if you wanted it, but glad you are sorted

HoneyBadger · 8 Jul 2018 at 13:35

Not cheap but the best X99 motherboards I had were:

Asrock Extreme 11 - Flagship board
Asrock fatal1ty gaming - Super fast and great overclocker
Asrock X99E ITX a/c -ITX Goodness

I’ve had many motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and EVGA.

Asrock are by far the most feature rich and fast motherboards I’ve ever come across. They have an ‘Ultra fast’ boot option in the BIOS that’s is so quick, they have to provide you with a Windows utility to enter the BIOS as POST is so quick.

ltron · 8 Jul 2018 at 17:24

Both my Asus Sabertooth X99 (random freezes) and my friend's Asus X99 Rampage V Extreme were faulty. I too have heard that Asus had problems with X99. However, my Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion has been wonderful. I ordered from here last summer when it was on sale at a ridiculous discount.

ltron · 8 Jul 2018 at 17:27

jwilliamson47 said:
Afraid not, managed to get sell my CPU for a good price and move platform.

Cheers!

How much did you get for your CPU, if you don't mind me asking and which platform did you switch to?