Whats a better motherboard?

[dycegamez]

hi whats a better motherboard
a ASUS P6X58D Premium or a ASUS Rampage III Extreme ?
thanks ima have 2 ati radeon 5970 12 gigs of gskill ram i7 980x hooked to it.

 

[starams5]

If you have no problem with budget and you plan on overclocking go with the Rampage III Extreme. It has duel EATX 12V for higher overclocking stability, it also has a duel bios. If you have no intentions of overclocking go with the P6X58D Premium, why waste the money. There are a few more features the Rampage III Extreme offers that the P6X58D Premium doesn't like ROG connect, Bluetooth card, etc; just have to compare the features.

 

[dycegamez]

i might overclock, never tried it before, but with the stuff i am getting i can. does the rampage have everything that the p6x58d has, but more?i like that the p6x58d has usb 3.0 and firewire ports and when i do upgrade again it can take the next chipset prosccer, not sure if the other one can or not. the ram is gonna be in tri sli also tha im getting i was on newegg and trying to see the differs they both have but im new at this with the motherboards.
thanks

 

[tecmo34]

If you have never overclocked, I don' think it is worth your money to get the Rampage III Extreme. I would stick with the P6X58D Premium or drop down to the P6X58D-E for roughly $230, which will still perform very nicely!

 

[Lutfij]

+1 ^^^ tecmo, and if you at all interested in the ROG series, get the rampage II extreme..but hey, you'll b happier with the P6X58D-E

 

[dycegamez]

MONEYS NOT A PROBLEM, I HAVE MONEY SAVED UP JUST FOR A WHOLE PC UPGRADE, I WANT TO GET THE BEST THATS OUT SINCE I GOING OVER KILL ON THE 2 RADEON 5970S AND 12 GBS OF RAM ON TRI SLI AND A I7 980X.

 

[Lutfij]

The thing is who needs to OC a board via a cell phone or an iPad? lol, but i can see myself own another ROG board just cos of the bragging rites. Look into the gigabyte UD7 series boards. Like starams5 mentioned, do you really need all the things on the R3E board? if not, get the board that has the things that you REALLY need.

e'g-dual gigabit lan, more pci-e slots. OC stability at ridiculous temps/clock speeds.

 

[tecmo34]

Money not being an issue, I would just get the ASUS P6X58D Premium for your build. There is a thing called negative returns on investment and to me the Rampage III Extreme is just that. The Premium will provide everything you need and give you a solid system.

 

[dycegamez]

oh ok , just wondering why the rampage one is not better?i always see people with all the stuff im putting on the board with a asus p6x58d board or an evga classifide one

 

[Henry Chinaski]

If you can afford the price, go for the Rampage III.

It supports DDR3 2200(O.C.)/ the other one only 2000Mhz.

The rampage supports 4 x PCIe 2.0 x16. You can install 1 graphic card at x16; two at x16/x16; three at x16/x8/x8 and four at x8/x8/x8/x8 configurations.
The Premium supports 3 x PCIe 2.0 x16. You can install even three graphic card at 16/x8/x8 or x16/x16/x1 mode.

The rampage has also the JMicron JMB363 PATA and SATA controller:
1 xExternal SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
1 xSATA 3.0 Gb/s port

The rampage overclocking extremely well. It has
- 8-phase CPU power
- 3-phase QPI/DRAM power
- 3-phase NB power
- 3-phase Memory power
- ML Caps on CPU, Memory and QPI
....

The ASUS P6X58D premium is a great mobo, but the Rampage III is a dream.
Anyway, as some other people have said before, if you don't go for the Rampage, I would go for the P6X58D-E. It's cheaper than the premium and performs very well.

 

[starams5]

+1 for lutfij, I think they went a little too far with OC cell phone thing. Seem to me those resources could have went toward something more useful.

 

[dycegamez]

ya thats funny. ill probally go with the rampage , is there a site that compares both boards side by side? also
powersupply i was looking at a 1000 watt one or more not sure how high i want it, i have a antec 1200 case with 2 ati radeon 5970 12 gigs of gskill ram i7 980x hooked in it
also
for the ram i wanna do tri sli so i was going with 3 4gig chips i only could find gskill ripjaw. is there anything better? thanks for the help everybody

 

[Henry Chinaski]

ya thats funny. ill probally go with the rampage , is there a site that compares both boards side by side? also
powersupply i was looking at a 1000 watt one or more not sure how high i want it, i have a antec 1200 case with 2 ati radeon 5970 12 gigs of gskill ram i7 980x hooked in it
also
for the ram i wanna do tri sli so i was going with 3 4gig chips i only could find gskill ripjaw. is there anything better? thanks for the help everybody

The Power Supply Requirement for your system is: 850 Watt with two 75W 6-pin and two 150W 8-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireXTM technology in dual mode.

Anyway, if you prefer to go for a higher wattage PSU, I would recommend you these ones:
CORSAIR TX950 950W (by CWT) (no modular)
CORSAIR HX1000 (by CWT) (modular)
ENERMAX REVOLUTION85+ 1050W

About the memory, the Gskill Ripjaw memory has a very interesting price/performance rate. I highly recommend it.

 

[dycegamez]

Oh ok cool I'll go with the 1050 watt one .the higher the better. Ok also on the video card ati radeon 5970 card what is the best card there's like 5 or so of the same card but diff companies . I'm used to geforce I ussally go with bfg or bfg tech thanks

 

[dycegamez]

Oh ok cool I'll go with the 1050 watt one .the higher the better. Ok also on the video card ati radeon 5970 card what is the best card there's like 5 or so of the same card but diff companies . I'm used to geforce I ussally go with bfg or bfg tech thanks

 

[tecmo34]

For ATI cards, the best two manufacturer's are XFX & Sapphire. I would recommend those two for an ATI 5970. Plus, I saw were BFG is getting out of the video card business so I don't know if I would go with them right now.

 

[Henry Chinaski]

HIS is a great brand too.

HIS HD 5970 2GB (2x256bit) GDDR5 PCIe (DirectX 11/ Eyefinity): http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-493.shtml

You can see it in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raM-IpyBO_A

 

[dycegamez]

Ok cool thanks on the gskill ram 4 gig chipsets are only 1600 is there anymore higher ones? And motherboards one more time I'm still stuck on wat one to get the rampage or the px58 d prem one I want the best and fast one that has 3.0usb and is able to use the next proccsor chipset that's not out yet and FireWire

 

[dycegamez]

amyone on that last comment i made . thanks

 

[tecmo34]

The best is ASUS Rampage III Extreme, the best value is ASUS P6X58D Premium... IMO

On RAM... you are getting an i7, so you'll want triple channel memory and the best is... Mushkin Enhanced Redline 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 998805 (IMO - even though it is DDR3 1600 but with Cas6 timings is makes up for the higher MHz RAM's)

 

[dycegamez]

oh i wanted 4 gig chips i found gskill ones

 

[tecmo34]

You meant you wanted one 4GB stick versus two 2GB sticks??

 

[dycegamez]

i want 12 gb all togther so i want 3 4 gigs so i can use it in tri sli

 

[dycegamez]

Sound good?

 

[tecmo34]

Why do you need 12Gb of RAM?? If the system is more designed for gaming (guessing it is with two 5970's), you will not benefit in running anything more than 6GB of RAM (actually, you can get away with 3GB but with a Socket 1366 setup 6GB is pretty much the norm).

I would still consider running 6GB (3x2GB) versus running three individual 4GB sticks, which will cut down on possible stability issues.