So is it just EVGA or all X79 boards...
 

Picked up an Asrock Extreme6, total fail sauce,

so saw a EVGA X79 SLI for cheap and grabbed that (little did I know...)

However, it has been solidish.. corrupted my HDD pretty bad and had some wicked 5 minute boot times (it did boot though ) and every time I set a memory clock in BIOS I hit save and reset and the PC just shuts down. Hit power button though and it works.

Read about 2400 MHZ mem multiplier, okay I used 1.25X bclck in BIOS

Noticed some other things.

I already knew about Intels EXTREMELY forgiving IMC. I had a dead stick of RAM on X58 and took me a while to figure it out since the system ran fine just at less memory total. what I do not recall from that or sandy, was how much you have to fine tune the voltages.

I see people posting "I can run at X.XX voltage" and I am like? Wow that is low, then again I can do it to. It just is not stable or produces lower benchmarks scores if I use those lower voltages.

I am only running 40x for memory testing which works fine at 1.2v, I have increased to 1.35 volts for 2133+ memory testing, because. it was necessary for stability.

IO/SA 1.05 and 1.1 respectively.

Increasing IO/SA at lower vdimms improves performance (IE at 1.55vDIMM I can superpi and stuff but need 1.1/1.2 on io/sa), until it gets to a point it reduces performance (1.2/1.25 which is default XMP voltage), increasing vDIMM allows me to reduce those, again increasing performance.

Marginal increases but every little bit helps nes pas? Wondering if anyone else noticed this, is it an SB-E thing, cuz I never noticed it on SB. Still have not gone IB either. Not interested in a spastic colon. :ohcrap:

Oh I am running a c2 stepping chip if that matters.

Am I crazy? (dont answer that)

Your a nut....

Wish I could help but never messed with that platform

But I have head a lot of bad things about evga bios department

Thought they would have solved them with Tin and Vince on the job, guess they cocused on GPUs

2400, is an issue on EVGA x79.

IT surprises me honestly would thing mem multis occured much lower on SB-E but no. They can do the same crazy speed SB can

Asus dominates x79 :D

hows this for mem speed, PSC 4x2gb

http://i.imgur.com/XIma9.jpg

x79 is just such a solid platform, too bad its overpriced and there is not interest.
I love how pretty much what the cpu can cpu-z at you can run 3d-physics tests lol.

I have the ASUS rampage X79, love my board. It will only do around 5.2 on water. I've not had a chance to try to go higher, I'm not good with memory over clocking.
Lately I've not been over clocking as life has been in the way...I don't know about the EVGA board as I've not used them since the P55 melt down.

I think you dropped a stick splave. only showing 6gb

cpu-z bug :)

As shown its good for multi GPU'S, is that four 7970'S?

yeah X79 is super stable for ASUS.....

Knowing Evvv Guhhh BIOS I would not use their boards....

he only board i have found that has stood the test of everything including Ramdisk testing have been My Rampage Formula And Extreme.

Yeah ASUS would have been nice, but only one I could find was twice the cost. Bought an Extreme6 off of eBay but it went up in smoke first boot.

My x79 CPU was tired of sitting on the shelf by itself. So needed something within my budget (under $200 shipped)

I will be keeping an eye out for an ASUS though, and Ramcaching is definitely something I am going to be looking at as well.