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Coming from a P9X79 LE user who fried it, and it's VRM... Fantastic motherboard for the price I paid (~$200 USD) used. I am an overclocking nutcase and I am using this board with a Xeon E5-1650v2. It has a 16-phase (8x8 in doubler by controller) power delivery system with a great heatsink solution that actually has great surface area for heat dissipation. I'm running my Xeon @ 4.6ghz, 1.385v stable with very refined settings that you can really only do on higher end Asus or AsRock boards with robust VRM. X79 was a super power hungry generation, and this board does a great job providing power when you need it. My 6 core alone draws 200w+ under prime95 SFFT and my VRM temps are well in check and I have had zero crashes since I dialed in those settings. Paired with 32GB of 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 RAM and this thing does wonders, it has a really nice menu for managing manual memory timings, voltages, vttddr and even individual memory LLC settings which I found amazing, especially since I plan on running some 2133/2400mhz RAM in the future for the hell of it. Plenty of room around the socket for watercooling brackets and mounts, I'm using a Cooler Master Seidon 240m to keep my beast of a xeon cool and it's doing fantastic thus far and the Q-fan control allows me to set the pump speed to 100% at all times (which is how you make pumps last as long as mine have; mine's on about 7 years strong) It includes Wifi N and Bluetooth 3.0, dated by 2019/2020's standards but they're always nice to have if you're in a pinch and need to install drivers on windows 10 as soon as possible. Win10 recognizes the adapters in a matter of moments after installing and you're ready to rock. Plenty of PCI-E expansion and tons of fan headers, it does a fantastic job for those with large cases as the headers are placed perfectly. Never had to run a cable too far or across my case. Now if you're overclocking an 8-core 1680v2, I'd go for something that has a bit better of VRM than this, as that chip loves clean power more than the 1650v2/4930k/4960x six-core little brothers. Such as the X79 Deluxe, or Rampage IV (not from the P9 family) that use much better chokes and even have modern wifi/bluetooth solutions. 5/5 for what I paid, and so long as you're okay with the bluetooth and built in wifi solutions being a bit dated, fantastic buy.Read full review
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A fantastic motherboard for the Intel LGA2011 processors. Both I7 and Xeon cpu's which right now are very cheap and will provide the same performance of the newer series chips at a fraction of the cost. The ASUS P0X79 Deluxe and Pro can also be picked up for a fraction of the cost of the newer motherboard and are full featured and will run XP, Win7, Vista and Win10 where many of the newer boards will only run Windows 10. When you add it up you can loose, backwards compatibility, excellent performance and cost effective. Its a win all the way around.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This was a great motherboard but when i installed my xeon processor, by default the multiplier was set to high. I also have a problem with the socket, being my cooler needs a special bracket to connect properly and i have to wait for it to come to be able to set my pc back up.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This thing is running in my PC right now as we speak. It is well-performing motherboard that does exactly what it needs to do! This model is a bit dated though, but I expected that, coming into this purchase and into this build. Definitely would recommend this if you're looking at building an older server
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Well, this motherboard is a piece of trash, I bought two of them, one online and the other one from local store (microcenter) I had to return the motherboard to them too, then they told me that those motherboard were defective, and they recommended me the rampage instead, Don't go for this instead go for a different or even better one.
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