asus x99 deluxe potential problems?

[dave1642]

Im currently in the market for an x99 board.
Im trying to decide between the Rampage V Extreme and the Asus X99 Deluxe.

The Deluxe board is incredibly feature packed, and definitely looks like the most bang for the buck.

However, when i went to put the item in my shopping cart, I saw that Amazon had more bad reviews than good ones.
I then went to newegg, and saw that for every good review, there was a bad review to go wiith it.

Things like:
"Asus qc is not what they used to be." Or "Asus customer support is very bad"
A few people even stated that they had performed as many as 4 RMA's......

Ive read many complaints about random crashes and response and boot failures.
But by far the most scary is one of the posts on this product page where a user stated that the board might have fired his 5960x and 980 ti's and wouldnt know for sure till Asus fulfilled his RMA request....scary.....so freaking scary.


http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-2011-3-Motherboards-X99-DELUXE-U3-1/product-reviews/B00TXBP1OW/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&showViewpoints=0


Thing is, 99% of all info I can find on this board is from last year, so its my thinking that enough time has gone by for Asus to work the kinks out of the board.....because if it was still acting up, people would still be complaining today....Right?
I want to love this motherboard so much, but it seems that for every good batch that makes it to the public, 2 more batches of problematic boards make it out as well.

Can anyone maybe shed some light on this?
Im ready to buy the board, and would like to get the whole system (minus the cpu of course) built and ready for when broadwell-e comes out.

Should I avoid this board? Go with the RVE?
Should I go ahead and avoid Asus, and their-ahem-"poor customer support"?

MSI Godlike?
Wait for the new chips to drop in hopes that Asus refreshes their x99 product line?

My current system:
4770k
m6e
sli 980 ti classifieds in a custom water loop
1200w psu
850evo's



I have a 3rd 980 ti that I cant really utilize properly till I get a 40 lane cpu,
I also have my ddr4 ram ready to go.
And as soon as i finish this post, i will order a Samsung 950 pro m.2
so yea....i sort of need an x99 board.

Please, discuss.

 

[Tradesman1]

I prefer the X99-A, the Deluxe is a good mobo, worked with one of them and no problems. One thing to remember, these were the first mobos to use DDR4, not to mention it was a new chipset and new CPUs. Anytime you read user reviews also you need to READ them, I often see people complaining about 'problems' that aren't at all, many BIOS related (anytime you actually get a mobo the BIOS is often out of date and many scared to flash a BIOS), same with drivers, the CD that comes with mobo generally has drivers that are out of date. Big thing with any mobo (or other component), is to ask for help if there's a problem beyond your knowledge and to be honest, the manufacturers aren't often the best place to go 😉 (Unfortunately)

 

[dave1642]

That's true.
Throughout all the comments I've read on this board, I can't think of one person who stated they updated their bios.
One thing I didn't know is this was the first board to use ddr4?
If that's true, then a safe assumption would be the board will have to be updated (bios) immediately.
Thanks tradesman.
Will check back later for more comments.

 

[dave1642]

Was incredibly happy to read about this.

http://wccftech.com/asus-x99-broadwell-e-motherboards-rog-deluxe/