What X58 board should I get?

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Going for a new build and push this rig over to the folding farm...

Can people just say what board they would reccomend and how "strongly" they rate it? Im usually a DFi person but have now used some asus and been reasonably impressed...
 
dont you mean the P6T6 WS Revolution?

my personal recommendations will be either P6T SE (if one is on a budget) or the P6T Deluxe V2 (worth the money) as I have both :D
 
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I'd suggest the workstation asus board, but only because you haven't specified budget.

That with 6 single slot nvidia cards in, with a very very big fan pointed at them, would output more PPD than just about anything.

A somewhat more sensible choice can be offered if you ask more specific questions. I'd want a Gene with two 280GTX's attached to it, and this is what I'll go for once I find funding for it. However this is not the response I'd expect to see recommended here :)

No hotlinking please
Apologies, sensible rule.

I may have misread the OP, is it the i7 rig or the current one you're going to fold on? All the answers here assume you have i7 + graphics cards intended as a dedicated folding rig, which we folders would love. It seems more likely that you're building an i7 rig for more conventional purposes though, in which case the WS boards are probably not the answer.

If a normal rig, the P6T by asus seems to be well respected, with the deluxe version and se being largely identical to it. The Asus Gene looks fantastic, and will be the board I eventually go with.
 
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I would suggest going for the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5, I just finished building a computer with one of these (10 minutes ago)

For me it came down to a choice between tese two;

Gigabyteex58-ud5
DFI x58 t3eh6
I chose the gigabyte board for three reasons. Most importantly was the arrangement of the expansion ports, on the DFI board if you populate all the x16 slots with dual slot graphics cards then that's it, no more expansion slots.
With the gigabyte, there is still an x4 slot, which could be used for a better sound card.

Secondly the Gigabyte board has more phases on the cpu voltage regulation circuitry.

The other reason is that the gigabyte has 2 more sata ports and supports raid on the additional sata ports aswell.

Both boards overclock similarly, but if you like DFI get a DFI.

The gigabyte booard I would rate 8/10, reasons not getting 10/10 are the placement of the ide port and being required to use the included bracket to get esata.
 
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One cannot prove intelligence, certainly not by research.
You care to include a case you could use those with? It is a nice picture, but as I discovered in this thread just above, no hotlinking please.

In fairness it's possible they'd work. I'm doubtful, it looks a lot like a large number of wires exposed to interference to me. I'd expect the cards to interfere with each other even if nothing else did. Are those intended for use with high bandwidth graphics cards?

Next up, name the power supply that will run seven 295s.
 
who says you need 1 power supply ?, and case modding is a common thing these days so modding some mounting brackets for the graphics cards woulndt be out of the reach of some people. Why are you hell bent on trying to prove me wrong ? do you have something against me becouse im new to the forums ?
 
If you are on a budget, the mobo in my sig may suit. It has pushed my 920 C0/C1 up to 4.15GHz.

edited to say there does not seem to be any bad X58's. Just buy the one that fits your budget and has the bells & whistles you need.
 
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Cheers for the responses lads, sorry for not being clear, my CH2 mb and p2 will now be folding, my I7 will not... I would love to go for the 7 slot board but the leccy consumption would be scary!

So im looking for I7, with a GTX 295 , possibly add another in a year or so...

making MATX a possibility but I will be using an omega case so I can have whatever size board........

Seems like Gigabyte and ASUS are getting the votes at the moment...
 
Sad to hear that it doesn't work with them all folding. Would have looked amazing, and the electricity bill would be epic. Does that imply a fault with software or with the board?

elite.ire, between this thread and the other one I've lost interest in you. Amuse yourself as you like, I will disregard your posts until I see something useful in one of them.

Ahh that's brilliant. I have the Omega and am always pleased to see other people using it. Gigabyte and Asus definitely look the main contenders, though Evga is well respected at a rather higher price tag.
If you go matx, the two 295's will be next to each other and very very hot. This probably restricts you to atx if on air.

So are you going for water? The omega does rather well with that, and combined with matx you'd have enormous amounts of space to fit pumps and so forth as well as adjacent graphics cards no longer mattering.

I believe the top end gigabyte board beats the top end p6t deluxe, and both beat the rampage extreme. I'm unsure how the gene compares to the ud5, perhaps someone has experience with the two of them.
 
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apparantly the specification is 75w per pci-e slot on the p6t7, and the GTX295 takes more like 150w ?,
so yea, looks like it wont work,
it woulda been sweet though,
id still recomend the p6t7 for its folding capibilities, although money might be an issue
 
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Sad to hear that it doesn't work with them all folding. Would have looked amazing, and the electricity bill would be epic. Does that imply a fault with software or with the board?

elite.ire, between this thread and the other one I've lost interest in you. Amuse yourself as you like, I will disregard your posts until I see something useful in one of them.

Ahh that's brilliant. I have the Omega and am always pleased to see other people using it. Gigabyte and Asus definitely look the main contenders, though Evga is well respected at a rather higher price tag.
If you go matx, the two 295's will be next to each other and very very hot. This probably restricts you to atx if on air.

So are you going for water? The omega does rather well with that, and combined with matx you'd have enormous amounts of space to fit pumps and so forth as well as adjacent graphics cards no longer mattering.

I believe the top end gigabyte board beats the top end p6t deluxe, and both beat the rampage extreme. I'm unsure how the gene compares to the ud5, perhaps someone has experience with the two of them.
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Hi until very recent I had a gigabyte extreme (rma gone wrong read motherboard horror story), and was checking the field to see if there was anything better sort of fancied a change, are you saying the board I had is the best? I've looked all over for a comparison review of the top end x58's
and dont know if its my inexperience but can't find any. it's not about money
I just want a good clocker for my i7 965, used for gaming,browsing

thanks, oh and sorry for the highjacking just the comment has just stopped me buying a rampage II.
 
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apparantly the specification is 75w per pci-e slot on the p6t7, and the GTX295 takes more like 150w ?,
so yea, looks like it wont work,
it woulda been sweet though,
id still recomend the p6t7 for its folding capibilities, although money might be an issue
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All PCI-E slots provide 75w of power, you would then use the PSU to power the card using the 6/8 pin plugs
 
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