 |
The board has a ok vrm but its nothing to spectacular. I would suggest a fan on the vrm if you will be overclocking heavy. The bios is pretty basic and has some decent controls but takes a bit of poking around in bios to get used to it. The board has a few quirks like if you have a SSD as your main it might end up booting so fast you will not be able to get into bios unless you unplug the drive or you move a jump to 2 pins 2 and 3. However least it boots fast I guess eh lol. Anyways the biggest issue with the board is the lackluster support intel gave it for the updated processors. Don't get this board if you want to run any ivy based cpus (not that big of a deal as the sandy cpus overclocked a tad better) however there is also no official support of the 16xx v1 xeons really. Its really intermitent support of the launch processors. You might be able to get a 16xx 6 core in it cause they were almost identical to the 3930ks but I dint feel like trying it but the good news is the board does have decent e5 2xxx v1 support meaning if you want a cheap 8 core + or - then most of them will run in this board. My set up currently consists of 4x4 ddr3 1600 from patriot and a 3930k. I've only had time to get the cpu to 4.3 max turbo across all 6 cores but I have a feeling 4.6 to 5 is pretty achievable on this board (depending on silicon lotto) based on all of the other cpus and systems Ive overclocked over the years on chillers and such. Anyways if your buying this board cause of the lack luster cpu support I would advise noy paying more then about 150 or 160 USD for the board. If you want the better cpu support go pick up a saber tooth or somthing else for like 200 USD. The board still runs and has a decent feature set but the board was still abandoned by intel early on and for this fact alone the board is not worth as much. If it works for your use case great! Just be advised it has some support quirks. Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I paired it with a Intel Xeon e5-2640, which is not on the supported cpu list but works fine. My use case was for a virtualization server and this motherboard supports both VT-x and VT-d. Pretty much everything is broken into its own IOMMU group which is great for passthrough to virtual machines. It only works with unbuffered memory (ECC and non-ECC), so Registered ECC doesn't work. It's a shame as Registered ECC memory is considerately cheaper, but this info is available in the manual for the motherboard.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Mad resurrection of my PC completely painless.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Very happy customer!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Motherboards
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Motherboards
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- You may also like
