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Choosing a X99 motherboard for my build

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October 16, 2014 3:42:58 AM

Hey guys,

I'm putting together a system later this year, probably around mid-late december, into january at the latest. I'm currently thinking about which motherboard i want to put in it, its a work computer that requires some processing power for the work i do, and also just having something very high end made me pretty happy so i'm going to get a Intel i-7 5820k which means i need a x99 motherboard. (EDIT: and its also a personal computer for my gaming, not just work)

So on choosing this motherboard, my budget is a little unknown at the moment (ie - there's a workshop i intend to attend at the end of this year but they havent announced their price yet, and i can't use past prices to judge either) but i know for sure i don't want to skip out on this critical component. Originally i have had the Gigabyte UD-Gaming-5 motherboard chosen, as its one of the few x99 motherboards that a store stocks nearby me. The only more expensive models above it are the UD-gaming-g1-wifi, the x99-deluxe from ASUS, and the ASUS Rampage V Extreme

So i was wondering, since googling it is very hard to find information that i can understand (i'm quite inexperienced and technical specs can fly by me a bit), what's the real benefit of going from say the UD-gaming-5 motherboard to a more expensive model like the Rampage V Extreme which seems to be the highest end model. Is it worth the money, or are the real benefits very small?

My current goal with this system is to run a single very powerful GPU (at the moment it's the Gigabyte windforce GTX 980, as i wish to overclock as much as possible, but ive heard rumours of a newer model GPU coming out in the GTX 900 series by the end of the year so i might get that one instead). I have no experience with SLi, and i've heard its not fully compatible with all software and games which has made me instead want to just get a single, absolutely most powerful GPU that i can. I also want to maximise overclocking, but its my first time overclocking (as well as my first time with a system this high end in general)

so with all that in mind, and since i know the motherboard is a critical aspect in overclocking and the actual computer in general, what do you think? Thanks in advance to anyone who answers, last time i posted a question and tried to thank someone as a reply i kept getting redirected to a 404 page not found. quite annoying.

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1 minute ago

Probably better to ask later in the year, more x99 motherboards might come out by the time you want to purchase one.
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