ASUS Rampage V Extreme vs Gigabyte G1 Gaming

[mistersprinkles]

Torn between these two X99 motherboards...

I like the overall feature set of the Gigabyte board better but I really like what ASUS has done, reverse engineering the 2011v3 socket and adding extra pins for finer voltage control. People have reported getting a better OC on the same chip on an ASUS X99 board vs a Gigabyte one.

Still, I'm not going for an extreme OC. Maybe 4.4Ghz on a 5820K.

I'd like some feedback from people who have these boards, or just knowledgeable people who can give me some more information about these boards.

So far, I like Gigabyte's onboard sound implementation better but that may be a moot point as I plan to add an external DAC down the road.

Thoughts?

 

[Redstorm]

IMO Gigabyte mess up with this round of motherboard releases by only implementing M.2 with 2 x pcie 2.0 lanes, this is a hugh error on their part as early next year marvells SSD control designed for M.2 with 4 x pcie 3.0 lanes will be available. your limiting yourself to 10Gb with their boards.

The ASUS board to me appears to be living off past success of the R4E

I went with a ASRock X99 OC Formula for 2 x M.2 slots one 4xpcie3 and one 4xpcie2 also running a 5820k

The ASUS RVE does have a proper M.2 implementation but is in a funny location and only one...

I would personally stay well away from any of the Gigabyte boards accept the Force, which is marginally better as it has a 4 x pcie2.0 M.2 implementation.

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Torn between these two X99 motherboards...

I like the overall feature set of the Gigabyte board better but I really like what ASUS has done, reverse engineering the 2011v3 socket and adding extra pins for finer voltage control. People have reported getting a better OC on the same chip on an ASUS X99 board vs a Gigabyte one.

Still, I'm not going for an extreme OC. Maybe 4.4Ghz on a 5820K.

I'd like some feedback from people who have these boards, or just knowledgeable people who can give me some more information about these boards.

So far, I like Gigabyte's onboard sound implementation better but that may be a moot point as I plan to add an external DAC down the road.

Thoughts?

You won't need an Extreme, unless you like to toss out yer money. Much less priced board with, what you need @4.4 my X79 auto clocks(it raises the voltage on its own). But you have to watch the volt's it get's, alot less priced board with what you need. Other board's also, but its up to you.......................

 

[mistersprinkles]

You won't need an Extreme, unless you like to toss out yer money. Much less priced board with, what you need @4.4 my X79 auto clocks(it raises the voltage on its own). But you have to watch the volt's it get's, alot less priced board with what you need. Other board's also, but its up to you.......................

I have no idea what you mean... :awe:

IMO Gigabyte mess up with this round of motherboard releases by only implementing M.2 with 2 x pcie 2.0 lanes, this is a hugh error on their part as early next year marvells SSD control designed for M.2 with 4 x pcie 3.0 lanes will be available. your limiting yourself to 10Gb with their boards.

The ASUS board to me appears to be living off past success of the R4E

I went with a ASRock X99 OC Formula for 2 x M.2 slots one 4xpcie3 and one 4xpcie2 also running a 5820k

The ASUS RVE does have a proper M.2 implementation but is in a funny location and only one...

I would personally stay well away from any of the Gigabyte boards accept the Force, which is marginally better as it has a 4 x pcie2.0 M.2 implementation.

I have no plans to use 4X PCIE 3.0 M.2 anyways so that doesn't matter to me. I just want the best user experience from my board.

 

[Redstorm]

I have no plans to use 4X PCIE 3.0 M.2 anyways so that doesn't matter to me. I just want the best user experience from my board.

fair enough, seams like you need a x79 board then and save your money.

 

[AdamK47]

I own both the Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 and the Asus Rampage V Extreme.

The Asus Rampage V Extreme is a better board in my option. You'll be paying more for it of course.

There is nothing really wrong with the Gaming G1. The Asus board simply clocks the memory and uncore (cache) much better compared to the Gaming G1. It uses a different implementation to achieve this through an Asus designed CPU socket.

I ran my 5960X at 4.0GHz on the Gaming G1 and I run it at the same speed on the Rampage V Extreme since I do not want to go above 1.2V. Both boards overclock the CPU about the same with the same amount of voltage. I use LinX and Prime95 for stability testing and run it for hours. 1.3V+ get to ridiculous temperatures almost instantly using these apps.

I have my Corsair Vengeance LPX 2800 DDR4 running at 3000 with XMP Profile 2. This profile raises the voltage to 1.35V and adjust the timings slightly over Profile 1, which is 2800 at 1.2V. I'm running 4 sticks of 4GB modules. I tried 8 sticks of the same memory and the system wouldn't even post at 3000. I could only get to 2666 on the memory with the Gaming G1.

The uncore goes to 4.0GHz easy on the Rampage V Extreme with 1.2V. On the Gaming G1 I couldn't even post if I adjusted the uncore even slightly.

The M.2 socket is in a great location on the Rampage V Extreme. I'm glad Asus put it there. It would be near impossible for me to use it if they put it in another spot along the PCI-E slots since I'm running 4-Way SLI.

 

[Satn]

Asus Rampage V Extreme search in internet the bios and you will understand why

 

[Lubna]

I have the Gigabyte GA-X99-G1 Gaming WIFI and is very good motherboard.
I am using two G.Skill memory kit F4-2666C15Q-16GRR
I'm hoping more mature BIOS to overclock.


At the moment I'm with default speeds
My CPU is Intel Core i7-5930K and I'm using the F7 BIOS

 

[biostud]

Any reason you're going for these boards if you're not into extreme o/c? You could get a cheaper and just as good board for your needs.

 

[Lubna]

Any reason you're going for these boards if you're not into extreme o/c? You could get a cheaper and just as good board for your needs.

if you mean to me, I bought it because I was recommended by the seller of the store that had it in stock.

I will overclock only when needed; I hate hot components :awe:

 

[biostud]

if you mean to me, I bought it because I was recommended by the seller of the store that had it in stock.





I will overclock only when needed; I hate hot components :awe:

I was actually asking OP.

 

[AdamK47]

It would be impossible for me to do this on the Gigabyte board.

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

I have no idea what you mean... :awe:



I have no plans to use 4X PCIE 3.0 M.2 anyways so that doesn't matter to me. I just want the best user experience from my board.

They are both over kill for what you want to do, understand that? :awe:

 

[Lepton87]

I went with ASUS ROG but I was deciding between it and ASUS X99-WS and I went for ROG because it was hard to find X99 available. The second reason was the problematic nature of more than 2 card working together. I had 4-way CF 6970 and it was hit or miss. I might go for 3 cards and 8x/8x/8x is enough for that, still those PLX chips on WS are very good. I had a ROG board before and I just like them a lot, they are top-notch I know that I gain practically nothing for two times the price but I'm hooked on ROGs boards almost just like the way people are fanatic about Apple devices.

 

[AdamK47]

Both boards will run one full length PCI-E slot at 16x when running 4 video cards. The implementation between Gigabyte and Asus boards does appear to be a little different. The 16x slot on the Gigabyte board is the second full length PCI-E slot from the bottom. On Asus boards it's the top most PCI-E slot. 16x/8x/8x/8x on Asus boards vs. 8x/8x/16x/8x on Gigabyte boards.

That's just something I noticed between the two boards. Nothing really that drastically different.

 

[Lepton87]

Both boards will run one full length PCI-E slot at 16x when running 4 video cards. The implementation between Gigabyte and Asus boards does appear to be a little different. The 16x slot on the Gigabyte board is the second full length PCI-E slot from the bottom. On Asus boards it's the top most PCI-E slot. 16x/8x/8x/8x on Asus boards vs. 8x/8x/16x/8x on Gigabyte boards.

That's just something I noticed between the two boards. Nothing really that drastically different.

Assuming you have a 40 lanes CPU, 28 lanes CPUs have different configurations. I wanted 8x/8x/8x not 16x/8x/4x

 

[njdevilsfan87]

I think any X99 board will be capable of doing 4.4ghz on a 5820K. Even 4.4ghz on a 5960X shouldn't require a RIVE. If you're getting a RIVE it's because you're looking to get everything out of your processor AND memory, while running multiple GPUs and/or M2 SSD.

I have no plans to use 4X PCIE 3.0 M.2 anyways so that doesn't matter to me. I just want the best user experience from my board.

While you may not have plans for it yet, you will in the future.