Is the MSI X79A-GD45/65 (8D), Asus P9X79/Pro Any Good?
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SieB
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Depends how much money have and how much you want to spend. The Rampage is the best board but also the most expensive, MSI GD65 boards are good. The Asus ones are ok as well but I have read their x79 BIOSs are not very good, not sure how true that is i've never used one, it's just what I have read.
Master&Puppet
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You'll be fine with the MSI tbh, I'd probably go with the GD65 (the 45 has a little too few power phases for overclocking an i7 for me although I've seen 3930k just over 5ghz on the 45).
You probably won't need the 8D versions of which ever you get (are you wanted more than 32gb RAM?!?)
You probably won't need the 8D versions of which ever you get (are you wanted more than 32gb RAM?!?)
Well I will be dropping a 3930K in the board and oc'ing as far as it will go.
I won't be using more than 16Gb of ram to be honest as going to 32Gb will limit the overclock, apparently and to be honest the most the ram usuage goes in my current pc is around 6Gb.
Money wise I really don't have a budget for the board as i use to buy the top of the line board's all the time, but after having a MSI P67A-GD53 board and it being a excellent board I really am not sure at the moment if the top of the line board's are worth the money anymore.
As for the 8D board's they are the only ones that Scan have other than the non 8D version of the GD45, so if I go for the GD65 it will be the 8D version anyway.
Are there any other board's I should look at apart from Gigabyte as I refuse to use them again after the trouble I have had with there board's in the past, and there RMA process and fault's department basically all of Gigabyte.
I won't be using more than 16Gb of ram to be honest as going to 32Gb will limit the overclock, apparently and to be honest the most the ram usuage goes in my current pc is around 6Gb.
Money wise I really don't have a budget for the board as i use to buy the top of the line board's all the time, but after having a MSI P67A-GD53 board and it being a excellent board I really am not sure at the moment if the top of the line board's are worth the money anymore.
As for the 8D board's they are the only ones that Scan have other than the non 8D version of the GD45, so if I go for the GD65 it will be the 8D version anyway.
Are there any other board's I should look at apart from Gigabyte as I refuse to use them again after the trouble I have had with there board's in the past, and there RMA process and fault's department basically all of Gigabyte.
Master&Puppet
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As far as it goes? Are we talking about benchmarking to get the highest you possibly can like using LN2? Or as high as it will go for an everyday overclock to around 4.5-5ghz? These are completely different proposals!
If you are trying to break records then go for the rampage. If you are just doing a usual OC then the GD45 will be happy with it's 8 phases (the 65 has 10+4). Mostly you will be limited by your cooling. It starts getting hot at 4.5 and you'll need an h100/NH-D14 to hold it above there. With custom water you can push towards 5ghz depending on the chip.
If you are trying to break records then go for the rampage. If you are just doing a usual OC then the GD45 will be happy with it's 8 phases (the 65 has 10+4). Mostly you will be limited by your cooling. It starts getting hot at 4.5 and you'll need an h100/NH-D14 to hold it above there. With custom water you can push towards 5ghz depending on the chip.
Well the plan's are now on hold thank's to my brother in law saying it's going to be longer before he can pay me the money he owes me
As far as overclocking goes it will be a general 24/7 oc as I cannot use LN2 and will just be using my water loop that I currently have in the Cosmos 2 until I get either a Little Devil case or the XSPC H20 case.
Will probably have saved up the extra money needed to go for the 3960x by the time he pay's it me back.
As far as overclocking goes it will be a general 24/7 oc as I cannot use LN2 and will just be using my water loop that I currently have in the Cosmos 2 until I get either a Little Devil case or the XSPC H20 case.
Will probably have saved up the extra money needed to go for the 3960x by the time he pay's it me back.
