x99 Deluxe II vs X99-E-10G WS

[matrixinception]

Hello Everybody,

This is my first build and I am wondering which MOBO is better the x99 deluxe II or the x99 E -10G WS?

This is 100% workstation, no games, below there is a list of the others main components that I am planning to buy: this is for MC, Adobe CC suite and Davinci Resolve

Mobo: x99 Deluxe II or X99-E-10G WS
CPU: Intel Core i7-6850K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU COOLER: Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid
VIDEO CARD: 2 EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 TI SC
MEMORY: 2 Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory
CASE: Corsair 750D ATX Full Tower Case
POWER SUPPLY: Corsair 860W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Thank you so much in advance for your help.

 

[Tanyac]

FWIW - And this is based on my experiences - The ASUS boards have chipset issues which might drive you nuts trying to get the system to boot reliably. There are several threads here about that board (and the X99-Deluxe and Deluxe/3.1 variants), and litterally 1,000's of vids on you tube about various workarounds for the issues.

ASUS are aware of the problems with their X99 boards, but for some reason have not addressed the problems.

Nice build btw

 

[matrixinception]

Thank you Tanyac,

Festival, thank you so much for your response, I am been looking all over the web for the past year trying to figure out how to put a system togheter and actually to tell you the truth I saw that a lot of people have different problems with different board, while others they brag how good those board are, other say exactly the opposite.

I am a Mac person, I usually buy a system and install the programs that I need but this time I decide to move to PC (Hackintosh) just because I want something that is upgradable on the long run instead of spending few thousand dollars every few years to keep up with technology.

So go back to your response if I understood correctly is better to go with x99 E 10 G- WS or just skip the Asus x99 all together, and if you suggest to skip all the X99 board, which board you suggest that may work from what I need?

Just to give you some extra info, I am editing right now a lot of VR multi-cam (8 cameras at least, and on the last concert (ACL in Austin) while I was editing the system was not able to keep up or better playback real time multi cam, I end up editing as single camera, and I am telling you when you seat with RED Bull and Samsung Producer is not fun when you system is down anyway ,I was editing on Premiere with the latest Mac Pro 8 core and 64 GB of RAM.

Again thank you for your help and for your response

 

[Tradesman1]

X99 is a whole new ballgame as far as set up and tuning. Also the manufacturers are still working on compatibility issues, but it's getting there, which is why I waited till now. I just built an X99 Strix/6900K rig (started Wed) and things are looking good so far 😉 The X99 Deluxe II was narrowed down to be my second choice

 

[Tanyac]

I'm not suggesting you skip X99. If X99 were unstable they wouldn't be selling them. It's just that, as Mr Tradesman has said, it still somewhat finicky.

There are undoubtedly many working ASUS X99 systems. It would be good to see someone with a similar configuration to yours, who is actually using the X99-Deluxe II post their experiences here.

ASRock is the only brand I've never had an issue with, or had fail on me - ever. But maybe that is just luck.

 

[matrixinception]

Hey Everybody,

thanks a lot for the reply, and btw my sincerely apology for my late reply, I am still undecided off course, Tradesman1 all the best for your new rig, from my understanding you are building a game pc, my question that I have for you is why you didn't went to the ROG RAMPAGE V EDITION 10 route? Or the Rampage V Extreme?

Tanyac I finally got it what you mean, and yes you are absolutely right, will be awesome to find somebody that has built a system similar of what I am planning to do.. I will wait at this point, I am not in a rush to build,I want to make sure to have all the component right before invest money on it.
I will wait to see how the x99 develop it self and how Asus is going to deal with their motherboard issues (btw I am reading a lot of reviews of unhappy clients dealing with bad asus customer service) anyway....

Thank you all for your help,I will post any news regarding my first build, hoping that I might be helpful to somebody else who find himself on the same situation that I am right now.

talk to you soon

Ciao

 

[duplicate_id]

I can't help you in comparing those specific two boards - I have the X99 E-WS. That said, hopefully this is of some use.

Apparently a lot of people have had problems with the Asus X99s, but I'm not one of them. It is one of the best motherboards I've used in the Intel world. Hardware-wise, this machine has an E5-1650v3, 64G Crucial ECC RAM, a GTX 970 and a Quadro K4000, a Samsung 950 Pro M.2, 4 WD greens, 2 SSDs that were laying around (forget which brand), powered with a Corsair AX1500i PSU. It is air-cooled, with plenty of fan and a CPU heat tower in a big case, and the cooling was more than fine in a stress test. (Yes, the PSU is way-overspec'ed. I tend to swap around hardware, and I got that with an eye towards possibly later using it in a large storage array that will be built next year.)

I run Ubuntu 16.04 and Win10 in a VM, mostly for industrial design. After the usual annoyances in setting up sorta bleeding-edge stuff like VGA-passthrough, this machine has been flawless on the hardware side. (Some software hassles, and in particular, Nvidia doesn't like VGA-passthrough and keeps crapping-up the drivers, requiring increasingly annoying workarounds - if you want to run VGA-passthrough, I recommend that you not buy Nvidia. Difficult decision if you are running pro apps, and the fallback is to dual-boot, but I really hate managing windows, and like to just be able to restore a snapshot when something goes wrong with it. But that's not about the motherboard. In conclusion, Nvidia can bite me.)

Again, I have to say this is one of the best motherboards for X64 that I've owned. I'm not overclocking - running ECC, don't do games, and care about stability over that last 1% performance. But performance has been excellent, it is extremely configurable, I've had no issues with stability or bugs I can trace back to the hardware.

A note about IO performance - this box actually has four tiers of storage speed (M.2, SATA SSD, 4 disk ZFS RAIDZ1, and gig-e NFS to a file server cluster), it is amazingly noticeable which one you're using when doing heavy IO. Everything else is so fast, even under load, that you'd immediately notice which you're writing to even if you didn't set the box up.

It looks like you're building a graphic design workstation, so multiple processors are not worth the expense (Resolve will be GPU-bound, only parts of Adobe CC apps can use multiple cores), so one of these boards would be in the high end of your options. 10G would likely be very useful, if you have the switch and storage on the other side of it. I'd highly recommend checking the hardware against the Asus documentation; it seems like the problems some folks have had with these boards is about hardware compatibility.

Another option would be to look at Supermicro. Some people don't like that they don't feel very polished, but if you don't care about that, they make great boards. I don't currently have one that compares to the Asus X99s (I do have an X10SDV-TLN4F in a storage server, and it is excellent), but they'd be worth checking out.