what mobo?

[weakssauce]

hey guys new here!

im building a new gaming/overclocking rig i have devils canyon on the wish list and want to get the best mobo out there! i was waiting for the maximus vii extreme there hasnt been any word on it..what gives?

should i just get the msi xpower? iv never had a msi board not sure if their solid overclockers...

i will be running 4 video cards so i need that plx chip

 

[Theocnoob]

Why are you running 4 cards? If it's for gaming, the gains over 3 cards are incredibly tiny.
Are there no cheaper boards with PLX chips on them?

 

[caddi daddi]

as far as i can find the asrock extreme 6 will be the choice board and is the board on my list, though I'm onli going with two cards.

 

[weakssauce]

yea i know the gains after 3 arent that much but i have the cards laying here from some mining rigs so might as well make a super gaming rig

 

[Theocnoob]

What cards if you don't mind me asking?

 

[tungureanu]

i'm guessing 7950's or 7970's

 

[weakssauce]

290x

 

[Theocnoob]

Holy crap you've got 4 290x's? That's heavy duty stuff. You'd get theoretically (slightly) higher framerates on X79 given the number of native PCIE lanes.

 

[tungureanu]

Holy crap you've got 4 290x's? That's heavy duty stuff. You'd get theoretically (slightly) higher framerates on X79 given the number of native PCIE lanes.

why not wait for x99 (or whatever it`s gonna be called). 4*290X deserve the newest and greatest.

 

[Theocnoob]

It's not likely to have more PCIE lanes than X79 does, and it's (afaik) not going to be PCIE 4.0 (which wouldn't matter, since these are 3.0 cards). I say buy now. Get a 4930K and 16GB of RAM and throw those cards in there. You don't need a top tier X79 board. Something mid range will do provided the right slot layout.

 

[tungureanu]

i'm guessing 7950's or 7970's

 

[weakssauce]

i thought about 2011 but that platform has been out for a while now... i rather get the latest and greatest....

 

[tungureanu]

thats why i said x99

 

[Theocnoob]

i thought about 2011 but that platform has been out for a while now... i rather get the latest and greatest....

You'll be waiting a while for X99 to come out.

 

[tungureanu]

You'll be waiting a while for X99 to come out.

isn't it supposed to come out this year?

 

[Theocnoob]

isn't it supposed to come out this year?

Ya like many months from now AFAIK.

 

[Fever]

If I were you I'd go with a similar setup as my sig rig. More worthy of 4x 290X than Z97.

 

[MacClipper]

as far as i can find the asrock extreme 6 will be the choice board and is the board on my list, though I'm onli going with two cards.

Shared some of my photos on the Extreme6 here if you are interested
Click!

 

[weakssauce]

why do you recommend 2011 over z97 fever?

 

[Theocnoob]

why do you recommend 2011 over z97 fever?

It has more PCIE lanes. Your cards will have a wider path to the CPU than they will all running at 8X (which is really 4X...) on Z97 with a PLX/NF200.

Haswell E will be to Ivybridge-E what what IB-E was to SB-E, a small incremental improvement. You'll probably get DDR4 support though so that's a big bonus.

If you want to wait, wait, but your cards will start to grow long in the tooth in the process. I'd jump on a 4930K now personally. Avoid the 4820. It's slightly inferior to the 4770K. You'd still get all those PCIE lanes though.

Overall, running on X79 won't get you a lot more frames than running on Z97 but it'll get you a couple.