Liquid cooling leak so looking for new mobo!

DJ-Specter · Jun 9, 2013

I had a slow leak that I'd not seen and now have to find a new mobo. My problem is that the one I chose previously isn't available in the uk now so before look at importing one, I thought I'd 'ask the community'

First off, I understand that the socket 1366 mobo range were stopped?

So I need to find a mobo that has the following features:

Support for an intel core i7 965 3.2GHz
6 x Ram slots
Triple sli support, but must be able to fit 1 x pcie mini card in as well.
10 x sata slots
Ideally 2 x ethernet ports but this isn't essential.

The board I had before was the gigabyte x58-ud7:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3527#ov

aatje92 · Jun 9, 2013

Where do you get your supplies? Link?

manofchalk · Jun 9, 2013

LGA1136 has been a dead socket for a while now, your not going to be able to find many of them still available.

I would use this as a learning experience, and an opportunity to upgrade. An LGA2011 board and processor could would be a decent upgrade from what you have.

DJ-Specter · Jun 9, 2013

Thank you for both your comments.

The problem with upgrading to another chipset is that I'd have to get different ram and new processor.

You will be pleased to hear that I have just performed a joyous jig as it occurred to me to press the CMOS reset button, and by the grace of, not god as there's no such thing, but science, my machine now lives!

Thanks again for the replies though guys

DJ-Specter · Jun 28, 2013

manofchalk :

In a sad turn of events, for some reason my machine now seems to cut out after intermittent periods of stress, and can only be brought back to life (very weirdly) by removing the 24(roughly) pin mobo power supply and then plugging it back in again. So, I am still going to have to buy a new board.

I would very much like to go for an LGA2011 board, but will it work with my current processor i7 965 and ram? if not, what is highest performance socket set that is? 1150? 1155?

Thanks again

manofchalk · Jun 28, 2013

Nope, your current processor wont work in a 2011 board, completely different socket.
RAM it will work with, though if you can track down another stick of mempry identical to what you currently have you should. X58 used Tri-Channel memory config, while X79 uses Quad Channel.

1155/1150 are mainstream sockets, not for top of the line performance. In terms of sheer CPU grunt and capacity of RAM goes, you want an LGA2011 board with something like a Core i7-3930k in it.

DJ-Specter · Jun 30, 2013

manofchalk :

Damn! Ok so basically I'm not quite ready to upgrade processor and ram yet - i figure that's at least a 4 year life cycle and while I'm close to that, they're both still performing well.

So, what is the difference between 1155 & 1150? if one is better/newer, can you recommend a board that has ideally 10 sata ports (8 will do if it's not possible!) (at least 2 of them being the sata 3 6GB/s version), and six ram slots.

The main criteria though, is to be able to run tri-sli cards and still be able to fit a mini pci-e card in as well.

Thanks again for your help dude!

manofchalk · Jun 30, 2013

Both are mainstream sockets, just that LGA1150 has replaced 1155 with the introduction of Haswell CPU's.
If you want to run Tri-SLI, your best off getting a 2011 board, some very high end boards can provide the slot bandwidth required, but the majority cant.

Intel God · Jun 30, 2013

manofchalk :

Majority of Z87 boards can do 3 way at X8/X4/X4. Being 3.0 bandwidth means it is plenty for any video card

3.0 X4 is in between 2.0 X8 and 2.0 X16

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