Which Haswell-E motherboard?

mraroid · Sep 2, 2015

Hello folks....

I have settled on a Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.5GHz LGA 2011-v3 processor. But I am unsure which motherboards support Haswell-E. I am interested in a full size standard ATX sized motherboard. Searching Amazon and other places, it is not clear to me if the motherboard supports Haswell-E or not. Other then memory, I plan on running a GeForce GTX 980 Ti video card.

Any recommendations for motherboards would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

jack

Ironsounds · Sep 2, 2015

Hello... X99 chipset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_2011

Eximo · Sep 2, 2015

LGA2011 v3

Use this site for compatibility:

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/

mraroid · Sep 2, 2015

I love the pcpartpicker web page. I ended up with a Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI ATX LGA2011-3 motherboard.

Anyone have any good or bad things to say about this motherboard before I buy it tomorrow? I am using a Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.5GHz LGA 2011-v3 CPU.

Thanks everyone for all the help

mraroid

mraroid · Sep 3, 2015

Will the above motherboard take a 16GB memory stick? The pcpartpicker web page said no. I am not sure if that is correct or not. I read the Gigabyte manual, and that was of no help.

Anyone know?

Thanks

jack

mraroid · Sep 3, 2015

I did some more digging and found the answer - the above motherboard supports only 8GB memory sticks.

It appears that the motherboard is shipped with no driver disk. Is this true? I see that they have drivers on the Gigabyte web site. I am installing Windows 7 professional (full version) and trying to make my mind up if I will upgrade to Windows 10.

In the past, I would stick my windows disk in the computer, and at some point windows would ask me if I had a driver disk. I would say yes, then stick the driver disk in.

Do I need to down load the drivers from Gigabyte web site, and burn them to a CD/DVD?

It would be great if the motherboard shipped with a driver disk, but I can see no mention of it on Gigabyte's web site.

Someone here must know?

Thanks

jack

Eximo · Sep 3, 2015

99% chance the system will boot up after installation and you can then download the drivers or copy them to the machine in another manner if you need network drivers first.

Unless you are going for a complex RAID setup that requires third party drivers it shouldn't be necessary to insert a disc during Windows installation. Windows 7 should have basic Intel RAID drivers covered and possibly Intel LAN.

mraroid · Sep 3, 2015

Great. Thank you. My only worry was that the LAN would not be supported and I could not go on line (ethernet, not wireless). But I suspect you are right. Microsoft will load a defult network driver, then I should be good to go.

Thank you for your help.

jack

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