Which is most efficient X99 board?

[ohenryy]

It's probably not one of the first things to consider when buying a highend X99 board, but I'm still curious which one out there is the most efficient and can save me money for the long run. Can anyone help?

 

[geofelt]

I doubt that efficiency among all the X99 boards will differ by enough to even measure.
Power usage or overclocking limits will not be significantly different.
Base your selection on other factors.
What is your proposed build, and what will it mainly be used for?

 

[xLendary]

Test results from Tom’s Hardware show that X99 Extreme4 is by far the most power efficient motherboard (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-x99-haswell-e-overclocking,3934-15.html). The 12 power phase design makes their power consumption significantly lower, while this also benefits by having a relatively lower temperature.

 

[ohenryy]

I doubt that efficiency among all the X99 boards will differ by enough to even measure.
Power usage or overclocking limits will not be significantly different.
Base your selection on other factors.
What is your proposed build, and what will it mainly be used for?

The thing is I'm planning to use a 5820 with DDR4 2666 RAM and a couple of VGA cards, for gaming mostly...so I'm thinking it needs to be efficient otherwise I'm going to run up the electric bill in no time...

 

[xLendary]

The new processors are pretty efficient. It helps to have a good solid board for sure!
You planning any overclocking? or just running default settings...

 

[ohenryy]

Yeah, I do plan to do a bit of overclocking, but need to get everything first. Will share some pics when I get a chance.

 

[xLendary]

Check their A-Tune Windows based OC software. I like the A-Tune because it gives you firmware controls from inside Windows.

 

[ohenryy]

Oh, I didn't realize they had A-tune...I was just going to try using Intel's XTU, I heard that its pretty easy to do and getting quite popular.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-boards-software-extreme-tuning-utility.html

 

[ocer9999]

Yeah, XTU is sort of for beginners and they even have a ranking system on HWbot. Check it out: http://hwbot.org/benchmark/xtu/rankings#start=0#interval=20

 

[mdd1963]

I doubt that efficiency among all the X99 boards will differ by enough to even measure.
Power usage or overclocking limits will not be significantly different.
Base your selection on other factors.
What is your proposed build, and what will it mainly be used for?

The thing is I'm planning to use a 5820 with DDR4 2666 RAM and a couple of VGA cards, for gaming mostly...so I'm thinking it needs to be efficient otherwise I'm going to run up the electric bill in no time...

Save the money wasted on X99 board and DDR4 RAM (for a gaming rig), and get just a Z97 based rig.....; performance is likely better, and you will have saved enough to afford your 2nd GTX980.....

 

[mdd1963]

If, however, someone is trying to win a gaming benchmarking contest at 800x600, then X99 is the way to go!

 

[-Lone-]

I got my board because it is red&black 😀