Hey Jacky, I'm really sorry to hear about your Asus Deluxe experiences. I'm stuck at this part as well as on whether or not to get the 6950X and I'm trying to find the clear, premium winner of the Broadwell-E motherboard refresh. It isn't easy. I'm guessing it'll be the Asus ROG refresh but...anyone have a top recommendation?
X99-A II, that's what I bought. No frills, but it seems to be working great for people.
I'm looking at the A II as well...Asus announced a x99-E, which is right below the A-II...Just no fancy lighting and no U2 port.
I can't find it anywhere...I'm wondering if its only for certain countries because Ive found links to all the other Asus boards that just got announced...but suspiciously no X99-E anywhere!
I wonder how these trends start...Because all the manufacturers are doing the crazy lighting on all their motherboards and videocards now..
Even my very entry-level Asus H110M-A has "LED Audio trace path lighting". In the BIOS, it's set to "Breathe" mode. It's kind of funky, but totally unnecessary. I would hate to build a "business desktop" with that board. Then again, maybe you can turn it off in BIOS. It hasn't bothered me enough to investigate.
I'm betting it has to do with sales of certain boards that happened to have had it this past generation and they mistook that as demand.
If I can't find the Asus x99-E, I'm going to get the Asus x99-A II like Arachno.
But this is the thing. Feature wise, the new ASUS ROG Rampage V Edition 10 seems to be way up there, but I was hoping for an EATX motherboard with PLX chips like the Asus X99-e WS 3.1.... I hate that I can't get everything I want in this case.
Or, if this turns out to be true:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/52356/asus-x99-10g-ws-motherboard-goes-speed/index.html
You won't see PLX chips on anything at all price competitive because the company that made and holds the patents on them was bought up and the new company more than doubled the price of the chips in order to recover the costs of the purchase. It is why almost all the boards mysteriously stopped using them. Basically if you want/need more PCI-e lanes, you need to get the 40lane CPUs, cause you won't get them from a PLX chip.
Personally to me, this ruled out all 28 lane CPUs a while ago.
Good choice :thumbsup:
well I think you should get this board, love asus stuff myself though
https://rog.asus.com/23442016/maxim...lic-of-gamers-announces-rampage-v-edition-10/
I need max amount of RAM, but wouldn't want to go Xeon unless necessary. So I'm asking if anybody has experience on populating all memory slots of a board for a total of 128 GB. Preferably on an Asus refresh board, but any experience really is appreciated. It's just that I've read a lot about incompatibility, and it tends to get worse with more slots populated.
What would be the recommendation for 6800K and no need for SLI (It will run Single GPU).
I want the least "Extras".
Namely no need for WiFi, Bluetooh, Extreme SLI.
Just Intel LAN, good Audio, M2 support and good stability (Won't overclock beyond 4 GHZ).
Thank You.
What would be the recommendation for 6800K and no need for SLI (It will run Single GPU).
I want the least "Extras".
Namely no need for WiFi, Bluetooh, Extreme SLI.
Just Intel LAN, good Audio, M2 support and good stability (Won't overclock beyond 4 GHZ).
Thank You.
@bigi,
How did you install the memory given only 4 DIMM's to take advantage of the 4 Channels?
What would be better 8 * 4 for 4 * 8 (Namely eight modules of 4 GB or four of 8 GB)?
Thank You.