As i said earlier - there is no plans fr overclocking.

 

 

The Intel Core I7 3770 will serve you well then!

 

Yeah I was looking into an ASRock board too, I'm fed up with Asus and it's double boots D:

 

ASRock is basically a company under the control of Asus. They technically are run by the same people.

 

Me too, totally fed up with Asus. I heard good things about Asrock. Might go for an Extreme6 or one from the Fatal1y range. Oh and Ben, I see that your 2700K can be stable at only 1.34V. You can easily reach 4.9 - 5.0 GHz when staying below 1.40V!

 

Trust me I have tried! I have to give my chip 1.45-1.48 to get to 5GHZ. I am not willing to give my chip that much voltage just for 200MHZ higher. Also, the temps are in the mid 70's and low 80's when running that much voltage.

 

Ben,

 

I'm no 'connaisseur' in motherboards, in fact no 'connaisseur' about much in computers but I'm getting closer and closer to buying my last items for my new rig and the selection of a motherboard is somewhat of a challenge. But I've more or less boiled it down to two choices: ASUS's P8Z77-V Deluxe and MSI's Z77A-GD65. Based on what I've read, the MSI board is favoured by many folks both as a probable purchase and an actual purchase. I'm leaning toward the MSI board strickly on what others are saying about it. I don't know about PureOC's reputation but for what it's worth, here's a link to a summary of an evaluation of the MSI board I read a few days ago and of special interest, the second-last paragraph. Another plus, it's exactly $100 CDN less than the Asus board.

 

http://www.pureoverc...id=1479&page=11

 

Your thoughts would be helpful.

 

Regards,

 

JJ

 

Go for the MSI.

 

So far from my personal experience, my ASUS board has held up very poorly. My main PCIeX16 slot already died and I get the double boot issues.

It's funny how we are swaying from ASRock, to MSI, and back... LOL. Can't we decide? :)

It's funny how we are swaying from ASRock, to MSI, and back... LOL. Can't we decide? :)

 

I'd go for MSI over ASRock honestly.... I have heard that ASRock has quality control issues hence the cheaper prices.

i have a 2500k overclocked at 5ghz and a gtx 580 is it worth me getting a 2700k chip as you say these overclock better thanks.

5Ghz? if you do decide to go 2700K I'll buy your MB, your CPU and your Memory/.

 

I'll be happy with the 5Ghz

 

:)

 

Manny

it runs at 1.48 vcore when i play fsx temps hardly ever go over 60c im using a corsair h80 water cooler they seem to be quite good

i have a 2500k overclocked at 5ghz and a gtx 580 is it worth me getting a 2700k chip as you say these overclock better thanks.

 

If you already have a 2500K @ 5GHZ, you will not see really any difference in OC performance.

I've just read 3 reviews on IB, and all 3 show the same result. Same performance as SB with slightly higher overclock, which SB can easily reach in comparison to IB. One even says IB is going to be easier to fry, or at least, Intel says that. Time will tell on that one.

 

We now know:

SB vs IB = 0 advantage (or if measured clock for clock, around 5%, if even)

580 vs 680 = 0 advantage (in terms of performance)

P68 vs Z77 = 0 advantage

 

The only open thing is PCIEx3. We shall know soon enough.

 

In order to fully test the potential benefits of PCI-e 3.0, a PCI-e 3.0 compliant motherboard, graphics card, and CPU are all required so I would like to see someone with a Z77 board, an IB CPU, and a GTX 680 test FSX before making any conclusion about the performance PCI-e 3.0 has to offer. It may even be true that these components offer little to no benefit over the best the last generation has to offer, but we can't really say that yet.

In order to fully test the potential benefits of PCI-e 3.0, a PCI-e 3.0 compliant motherboard, graphics card, and CPU are all required so I would like to see someone with a Z77 board, an IB CPU, and a GTX 680 test FSX before making any conclusion about the performance PCI-e 3.0 has to offer. It may even be true that these components offer little to no benefit over the best the last generation has to offer, but we can't really say that yet.

 

This is what I am thinking. If FSX can take advantage of PCIe3, then it might make up for the loss from the lower OC's.

In order to fully test the potential benefits of PCI-e 3.0, a PCI-e 3.0 compliant motherboard, graphics card, and CPU are all required

 

Quite late to the game now, are ya? That's one of the most favorite sentances lately...

Quite late to the game now, are ya? That's one of the most favorite sentances lately...

 

Oft-stated or not, it's veracity remains the same. The benefits of PCI-e 3.0 are simply not possible to be realized without all 3 components.

Take a joke man

I don't saturate my bandwidth and fly with auto gen off, so I'm not too sure if PCI 3 will help. I fly with photo scenery. I think I'm sticking with sb.

I hate to shout but when you buy your new motherboard CHECK THE MANUFACTURERS WEBSITE FOR SUPPORTED RAM!!! I don't just mean DDR3 and triple channel / quad channel but the manufacturer of the ram really matters. I have done this 2 times now, and got burned you would think I would learn, but you get so damn giddy hovering over the checkout button, just to put your system together and then it doesn't boot. Luckily this last time it was old DDR3 ram from my last board so I didn't order the wrong thing, but the x79 version of the Extreme6 doesn't support OCZ ram at all.

 

Especially anyone going to the x79 platform the quad channel ram is super finicky, ensure that it is supported on both the ram website, and the mobo website.

I hate to shout but when you buy your new motherboard CHECK THE MANUFACTURERS WEBSITE FOR SUPPORTED RAM!!! I don't just mean DDR3 and triple channel / quad channel but the manufacturer of the ram really matters. I have done this 2 times now, and got burned you would think I would learn, but you get so damn giddy hovering over the checkout button, just to put your system together and then it doesn't boot. Luckily this last time it was old DDR3 ram from my last board so I didn't order the wrong thing, but the x79 version of the Extreme6 doesn't support OCZ ram at all.

 

Especially anyone going to the x79 platform the quad channel ram is super finicky, ensure that it is supported on both the ram website, and the mobo website.

 

This is an urban myth. The fact of the matter is that motherboard manufacturers simply don't have time to test and validate every RAM kit on the market on their motherboards. Your post doesn't specify whether you've had difficulty getting RAM to work in certain boards or not, but if you have, it's very likely you just need to adjust the settings in the BIOS manually in order to ensure proper operation.