x99 with good RAM OC

[xeon_fan]

Hi All, until two weeks ago I was on Ryzen 1700@3.9Ghz and 2x8GB @3200Mhz (Ripjaws 5) F4-3200C15Q-32GVK (half of the setup) with Asus Crosshair VI Hero but sold it and now I was lucky to buy E5-2697 V3 (2.6 Ghz with Turbo at 3.6Ghz) 14 cores 28 threads ...
Now as I have
- F4-3200C15Q-32GVK (4x8 GB - b-die Samsung)
- E5-2697 V3

I'm searching for motherboard which allows me to (if it is possible) run
- memory @ ~3200 Mhz
- BLCK @ 106mhz (E5 26XX is not overclockable)
- have good sound
- no need of many PCI slots (max two GPUs)
- as cheapest as possible
- stable

Could you recommend any x99 motherboard ?

I was thinking about:
- Sabertooth x99 ( I was very happy with x79 version) but it seems max is @3000 Mhz for memeory
- Strix x99 (but it's quite expensive)
- Asrock Taichi x99 (but not sure how good Asrock is)


Thank you for the help

 

[ohenryy]

All above are pretty good, but if you want the ultimate overclocking motherboard, get the OC-Formula from Asrock.
By the way they put out very solid boards, specially on overclocking side of things 😉

 

[xeon_fan]

All above are pretty good, but if you want the ultimate overclocking motherboard, get the OC-Formula from Asrock.
By the way they put out very solid boards, specially on overclocking side of things 😉

Hey, thanks but it's quite expensive one and I'm searching more for stability than full force OC (as I will overclock minimally BLCK and try to set memory @3200)

 

[Viking2121]

You should be able to adjust the CPU strap to get the CPU clock up if thats still a thing with Xeon's, and you may be able to change the Ram dividers and manually dial in the ram timings, I'm going by the older x79, not sure how the whole overclocking thing works on Xeon's and x99 as Intel likes to control what you can do.

On the other hand I do recommend you stay away from Asus on x99, their boards is quiet common to burn up the CPU, a quick google search with Asus x99 killed my CPU will give a ton of results, or well at least more then I'd like to admit. I fell victum as well, my Asus x99 Deluxe still works in fact, but its done killed 2 different i7 5820k's and Asus says the board works fine, yeah works fine for awhile, no way i'm running my 5960x in that board...

Again thats just my recommendation, not everyone has problems with it or had problems with it, but like I said its more common then I think it should be.

Asrock x99 Taichi is one of the best x99 boards out there, the bios layout is setup almost like Asus so if you messed around with an Asus board, you should be able to navigate easy in the bios.

 

[xeon_fan]

You should be able to adjust the CPU strap to get the CPU clock up if thats still a thing with Xeon's, and you may be able to change the Ram dividers and manually dial in the ram timings, I'm going by the older x79, not sure how the whole overclocking thing works on Xeon's and x99 as Intel likes to control what you can do.

It does not work on anything like Xeon E5-2XXX, strap,ram dividers, nothing. I did the exploit of microcodes issue which allowed me to went "all cores turbo" (works only for Xeon v3) + minor FSB/BLCK run at 104.5 mhz - Now E5-2697 V3 is on the same level as TR2 1950X / 1920X and i9 7900x in multithreading and similar level of one core performance as AMDs TR.
I was recently thinking about moving to i9 but I will wait for Zen 2 because now I have great 14c/28th cheap equivalent of 7900x with one core performance of AMD Threadripper.

On the other hand I do recommend you stay away from Asus on x99, their boards is quiet common to burn up the CPU, a quick google search with Asus x99 killed my CPU will give a ton of results, or well at least more then I'd like to admit. I fell victum as well, my Asus x99 Deluxe still works in fact, but its done killed 2 different i7 5820k's and Asus says the board works fine, yeah works fine for awhile, no way i'm running my 5960x in that board...


Again thats just my recommendation, not everyone has problems with it or had problems with it, but like I said its more common then I think it should be.

Asrock x99 Taichi is one of the best x99 boards out there, the bios layout is setup almost like Asus so if you messed around with an Asus board, you should be able to navigate easy in the bios.

I went with Asrock Taichi and I'm quite happy with it - Already one year of using

Here is the topic about the performance :

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3752634/xeon-2697-upgrade-7900x-7920x-gaming.html

 

[Viking2121]

You should be able to adjust the CPU strap to get the CPU clock up if thats still a thing with Xeon's, and you may be able to change the Ram dividers and manually dial in the ram timings, I'm going by the older x79, not sure how the whole overclocking thing works on Xeon's and x99 as Intel likes to control what you can do.

It does not work on anything like Xeon E5-2XXX, strap,ram dividers, nothing. I did the exploit of microcodes issue which allowed me to went "all cores turbo" (works only for Xeon v3) + minor FSB/BLCK run at 104.5 mhz - Now E5-2697 V3 is on the same level as TR2 1950X / 1920X and i9 7900x in multithreading and similar level of one core performance as AMDs TR.
I was recently thinking about moving to i9 but I will wait for Zen 2 because now I have great 14c/28th cheap equivalent of 7900x with one core performance of AMD Threadripper.

On the other hand I do recommend you stay away from Asus on x99, their boards is quiet common to burn up the CPU, a quick google search with Asus x99 killed my CPU will give a ton of results, or well at least more then I'd like to admit. I fell victum as well, my Asus x99 Deluxe still works in fact, but its done killed 2 different i7 5820k's and Asus says the board works fine, yeah works fine for awhile, no way i'm running my 5960x in that board...


Again thats just my recommendation, not everyone has problems with it or had problems with it, but like I said its more common then I think it should be.

Asrock x99 Taichi is one of the best x99 boards out there, the bios layout is setup almost like Asus so if you messed around with an Asus board, you should be able to navigate easy in the bios.

I went with Asrock Taichi and I'm quite happy with it - Already one year of using

Here is the topic about the performance :

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3752634/xeon-2697-upgrade-7900x-7920x-gaming.html

Yeah my bad, I seen July and didn't look at the year until now lol.

I recently built an i9 7980XE system for my buddy and return got his old i7 5960x and x99 Classified, that i9 is one crazy CPU, his video rendering times were cut in half with handbrake and some other video software he uses, Though at stock setting on his Asus Strix x299 with MCE enabled his H100i could not keep the CPU cool enough, ended up having to go get something else. I was impressed how much of a difference it was. But for $1800 USD, It better be a difference.