Asus X79 Deluxe

[prfrma]

Mines on order due to be delivered on the 18th (can't wait!)

Anyone else getting one of these black and gold, LGA 2011 bueaties?

[prfrma]

Here are the two comprehensive reviews i've been able to find:
http://techreport.com/review/25310/a...board-reviewed


http://www.kitguru.net/components/cp...rboard-review/

[Dominican809]

i was thinking getting it not sure.

[HiVizMan]

I really like the motherboard, has 12 SATA ports and more USB3 ports than you can shake a stick at.


With the CPU determining the OC these days and pretty much every thing controlled by the CPU except sound the Deluxe is a good looking addition to the range, just for the SATA ports and looks alone.

[Angstromm]

Just got mine and waiting for the rest of the parts for my entirely new system!

I'm thinking we should get a thread up for OC'ing, support, etc. Yes?


Specs:

Mobo: Asus X79 DELUXE
CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K 3.4GHz
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Red 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
Thermal Paste: TUNIQ TX-4
Drive: Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB
Drives: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM – x2, RAID-0
Drive: Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM
Video Cards: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card – x2
Case: Corsair 650D ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 1200W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDR-208DBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer
Case Fan: Noctua NF-S12A PWM 120mm
Case Fan: Noctua NF-P12 PWM 120mm
Case Fan: Noctua NF-P12 PWM 120mm
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)
Monitor: ViewSonic VP2770-LED 27.0" Monitor
Keyboard: Logitech MK710 Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard w/Optical Mouse
Speakers: Corsair Gaming Audio Series SP2500 232W 2.1ch Speakers

[HiVizMan]

Angstromm please feel free to start a Asus X79 DELUXE motherboard owners thread.

You have a nice system tehre.

[prfrma]

Just finished putting mine together:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/GqL
The 4 way tuning utility overclocked it to 4.5 out of the box - stable after 24 hours and after lowering the vcore a little to 1.38 has temps of 55c under load.

The clock speeds jump around a bit and I still haven't figured out how to get the MB to boot via usb 2, but so far so good.

[HiVizMan]

Clock speeds jump about due to Speedsteep and that is a good thing.

[prfrma]

EIST was one of the reasons I got the 4930k over the 3930k however I'm struggling to get a stable 4.6 overclock with a vcore under 1.5 - considering turning it off, though I'm such a begineer at manually overclocking that I wouldn't really know what to do from there.

[HiVizMan]

4.6GHz is quite some OC for that platform, heat generation is quite intense at those voltages