X58 To The Max: Three New Flagship LGA 1366 Motherboards

[bCubed]

As always ASUS seem to put in a lot of work into their products. Not to seem like a fanboy but a few of the major components in my system are ASUS.

 

[Hupiscratch]

[citation][nom]DSpider[/nom]What is an average Joe gonna do with so many PCI Express slots ? Please, tell me. I'm not talking about the MSI x16-x8-x4 scenario. But really, now. Do you need more than 60 FPS ? Especially since the majority of LCDs out there only work at 60 Hz (which translates to 60 FPS).It doesn't frigging matter if your 8 way SLI or CF can do 800 FPS ! By the time games are going to stress them there will be a different generation of GPUs and DirectX 12, 12.1, 13, etc. You'll just end up with a power hungry, heat generating LAWNMOWER PC. Think about it.[/citation]

Try to maintain 60 fps in a 6 screen 3D configuration and you´ll understand why all this power.

 

[DSpider]

[citation][nom]Hupiscratch[/nom]Try to maintain 60 fps in a 6 screen 3D configuration and you´ll understand why all this power.[/citation]
Eyefinity and and Surround 3D Vision is a bunch of cow dung. I don't like the bezel of the screen blocking my view. Especially in a 6 screen setup where it's even more pronounced. Sure, you can look pass that after a while... but it's like looking through a net. Or a fence. That's bullshit.

What I'd like are wide, bendable LCDs. Or a projection setup... like a cluster of projectors working together. That could work. On a curved panel... 800x600 is pretty much a standard for projectors. 3 * 800x600 = 2400x1800 ? It's pretty close to 2560x1600 (less if we make it in 16:9 wide format, because 800x600 is 4:3).

 

[youssef 2010]

I always thought dual network outputs were overkill but when I really needed them,I changed my mind.So, when ASUS doesn't include a second network output on such a premium board,that's just plain cheap as the cost is negligible compared to the rest of the board & when I'm setting up my three way SLI.I may not have space for a network card.Really, go bless the man who made it possible to connect to the router and have internet access with a usb connector.

 

[youssef 2010]

Another thing, what will it cost them to make 4 extra mounting holes for LGA 775 coolers

 

[arioch13]

I recieved my Rampage III about 10 days ago. It was peculiar out of the box. But I have to say before that I was primarily using a tri sli EVGA and the EVGA felt somehow safer. The dumbed down overclocking options of the Asus dont appeal to me so I was looking for the detail in the BIOS. It had some very nice software apps for tweaking and some gimics like the blue tooth monitoring etc. (Yes I said had) Like several products I have tried from Asus it was unreliable indeed. I hadnt yet had a chance to play with it when it died. The fault I have is similar to one many people have reported. Its going back RMA. However, needing to build a new machine for my home away from the UK I bought a second one. Never bought anything from MSI before. (always thought them a bit cheap and nasty) but I got the Xtreme Big Bang a few days ago. I am converted!. Its a really good board. The detail in the CELL in BIOS is fantastic, the peripheral for monitoring the post process etc is handy and its very about what I had hoped the Asus would be. ie- reliable and able to give me total control. I look forward to playing with the Asus some more when it comes back but it will take a lot for me to trust Asus in anything other than my part time games machine in future. Unfortunately for MSI when you put both boards side by side the MSI just does not look like a good quality product in comparison. The Asus in my view looks fantastic. I learned that beauty really is only skin deep late in life, it seems I have just learned to apply that to motherboards. My only complaint about the MSI would be the lack of detailed temperature information. EVGA are good when it comes to giving you the detail on this. I dont really see the same level of detail with either the RIII or the BBX. Pity EVGA didnt keep up and release something appropriate to me (have SATA III SSD's) or I would have stuck with them but I am now quite enthused about MSI

 

[arioch13]

Just wanted to add. After burning out my 480s recently (yes thats the reason I was already quite annoyed with Asus) due to what was put down to heat damage. Eh? They were hard to keep cool even in the coolermaster stacker case I had them in for the short day they worked. Had watercooled the CPU but didnt get the blocks for the cards as they were new (. But since then I have mainly been using 2 x 5970s. (I like to be able to swap cards and manufacturers between pcs.) and the MSI design also comes up trumps for me there with the 2 x x16 slots being well seperated. This is something which annoyed me for a long time with my older EVGA board. This alone was a big step forward for me. Maybe if I had used this board the 480s wouldnt have taken heat damage. (never got about 88/89 degrees btw on those 480s although the fans were screaming. Not exactly what the print in the marketing is it!? ) Anyway, big time happy (as you can probably tell by now) with my first piece of MSI kit. Not sure if I will trust the RIII again once it comes back from RMA. Might end up relegated to my apartment in london which means it wont get much use. Erm... could be an RIII going very cheap shortly.

 

[Guest]

hello. i have a problem in my brand asus rampage 3 extreme. When I turn on the computer it just shows the ROG logo and it gets stuck I can hit tab to see the boot information when I press DEL to get to BIOS it will freez and when i press f8 it will writing BBS i up. and doin nothing. and it would just stay like that can you give me any information or help for that?

 

[Emperus]

hello. i have a problem in my brand asus rampage 3 extreme. When I turn on the computer it just shows the ROG logo and it gets stuck I can hit tab to see the boot information when I press DEL to get to BIOS it will freez and when i press f8 it will writing BBS i up. and doin nothing. and it would just stay like that can you give me any information or help for that?

This is a discussion thread.. Post your query in the forums (motherboards and memory section) to get help/suggestions..

 

[Guest]

The only thing the UD9 is missing is three more DIMMs (9 total). I know some server laptop battery boards have 9 DIMMs per CPU, why not any enthusiast boards?

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]wholesaleeshops[/nom]The only thing the UD9 is missing is three more DIMMs (9 total). I know some server laptop battery boards have 9 DIMMs per CPU, why not any enthusiast boards?[/citation]The memory controller only support two modules per channel. The memory controller is part of the CPU.

 

[ioniancat21]

I personally have been so disappointed with the overall quality and price of all LGA 1366 motherboards. On the flipside, LGA 1156 offers three times more motherboards with better prices and quality and Intel overall should be ashamed with the offerings made available for their processor. Even Intel's one 1366 motherboard is total trash, which is usually not the case and shoudl never happen from the manufacturer of the processor. All the motherboard manufacturers need to either abandon 1366 or get on the ball and create quality motherboards worthy of your inflated prices.

 

[Guest]

You send to Brazil?
As for the zip code is: 54120-360.

 

[Guest]

fliperalex: This is not a shop.

 

[Guest]

When I asked GigaByte (pre-sale) which single slot video card(s) would allow all 7 PCIe slots to be occupied simultaneously on the GA-X58A-UD9, they did not know (or at least tell me). Any ideas?

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]ab[/nom]When I asked GigaByte (pre-sale) which single slot video card(s) would allow all 7 PCIe slots to be occupied simultaneously on the GA-X58A-UD9, they did not know (or at least tell me). Any ideas?[/citation]Three of those slots are "just for looks" because the board is primarily designed for 4-way SLI. Drivers don't support more than four GPUs for SLI or CrossFire, and the NF200 bridge works best as a repeater (sending the same data to multiple cards).

Breaking SLI (or CrossFire) eliminates the repeater function, so the slots will have to share non-multiplied data at reduced performance. However, the slots ARE connected, so you should be able to run ANY single-slot cards under two conditions:
1.) The cards run cool enough to avoid overheating in that configuration
2.) The cards don't draw too much power from the slots. This isn't normally a problem, but might be a problem with the Afox 6850's we just tested. Yet those cards would probably overheat anyway.

So, if you wanted to do 7 graphics cards, they're going to have to be fairly weak, cool-running cards. Probably 5700 series or below.

 

[vexun11]

I love my GA-X58A-UD3R it has been great for me. I had some issues with the northbridge running a bit warm at first but I was able to fix it with a few minor tweaks no big deal. I am really glad I went x58 last year, I wont need to upgrade anything more then my GPU (5830) for a while.

 

[carlgh]

What a piece of JUNK. I'm on my 2nd motherboard and IT does the EXACT SAME thing as my other.

History - about roughly 2-3 weeks my motherboard stopped booting. I had been running Windows 7 and did so CONTINUOUSLY for over a week at a time at least 2 or 3 times.

Now, the fans start but stop after just a half a second or so. If I hit the Q_RESET button (that removes power from the CPU) enough and power cycle it enough, I EVENTUALLY get it to boot, but this take 5 minutes or so.

The 2nd motherboard did the EXACT same thing, right out of the box.

I have ordered a new PS and will put in a different video card as well if necessary for testing purposes. I will also take it OUT of the case and put it on cardboard (if necessary).

I DID already try running on only 1 piece of ram - same thing. I'm using an I7 950 CPU and 12 gig of ram from Crucial that they said would work with this mobo (I don't have the specifics here, but I have posted a problem in the forums)...

Jeez...