Best 1366 mobo for benching?

[funsoul]

Hi Folks

Not looking to buy yet but certainly want to keep my eyes open for a deal on a 1366 mobo for benching.

Checking hwbot (only searched for reference clock then scanned the 'used in other benchmarks' section), these seem to be the go to motherboards:
- Gigabyte x58a-oc
- asus rampage iii extreme
- asus rampage iii extreme black edition

Are those the best/fastest boards for this socket? Is there 1 board that rules them all? Is that the right ordering (trying to prioritize the boards)? Am I missing any that should be considered (like the x58 classy, etc)?

Again...just want to figure out what to keep my eyes open for as/when 1 pops up.

tia for the info!

 

[Woomack]

One of these 3 will be best. It usually depends more from CPU than a board. Some cheaper series had bclk wall at about 220MHz. From some you could make additional 20-30MHz but some just couldn't or it needed hardmods.
I have R3E and it's pretty good. From Gigabyte better stick to this OC one as some UD3/UD4 had issues with higher bclk ( depends from revision etc ). I have no experience with EVGA boards but I'm not recommending anything from ASRock, Biostar or MSI as power section was weak in all their X58 boards.

Here is 248+ bclk on P6X58D-E ... the same board that later burned and killed my best i7 920 ...

 

[funsoul]

Thanks as always Mister Woomack our resident Memory Magician!

I'm in no rush so will keep my eyes open for one of those x58a-oc boards. If I get itchy and haven't found one will go with the r3e-be or r3e.

Your p6x58d-e/920 look blasting! Too bad it blasted your cpu, though :/