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asrock z77 extreme 11 or asus sabertooth x79?

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June 16, 2013 8:03:32 PM

I'm racking my brain over this and would love some opinions.

I have a 3770k and a 3930k both of which can clock to 4.6 to 4.7ghz on a swift tech h220.

I use my system primarily as a desktop workstation with multiscreen gameing powered by gtx 670 4gb x3.

The problem is that the card spacing on the sabertooth sucks compared to the as rock. And the Intel raid on the sabertooth is inferior to the as rock when raiding my vertex 4 x6.

But...the x79 has more pcie lanes that don't require a plx chip for my graphics and a few more cores.

The as rock has that lsi controller that does raid x8 but the reviews say it sucks?

Plus I believe the LSI card will have to share pcie lanes with my tri-sli.

So...it seems I can't have everything...

Which board combination do you recommend and why? Oh and the 3930k is proving slightly more difficult to of to 4.7ghz. But for discussions sake let's assume they are both the same clock speed.

Better raid support and card spacing at the cost of two cores and shared pcie lanes or two more cores and uninhibited graphics but no graphics over clocking because of heat due to crappy spacing?

Discussion welcome especially from folks with these boards.

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June 16, 2013 8:08:38 PM

That's a tossup , both are great boards.
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