Evga x299 Dark or Asus ROG rampage VI extreme

[usmc362]

Both are great boards but which one would you rather have if you're an overclocker enthusiast? Evga is $500 Asus is $700

 

[BadFrog]

IMO, Asus, but it depends, if you're going to put a monoblock onto the Asus, then Asus. However, if you're on a budget, then evga. 200 is quite a difference in price.

 

[EarthDog]

Neither... the Apex if you are into overclocking... EXTREME (read: sub-ambient) overclocking.

A board like the Strix XE or ASRock Taichi XE (and many many others) will handle ambient overclocks without breaking a sweat. You don't need to drop 500-700 for ambient overclocking.

 

[radrok]

I wholeheartedly agree with the statement written above, the Taichi XE is more than well equipped for high end ambient overclocking.

If you're into bling though the Rampage is a pretty damn nice board.

 

[peche]

A board like the Strix XE or ASRock Taichi XE (and many many others) will handle ambient overclocks without breaking a sweat. You don't need to drop 500-700 for ambient overclocking.

+1, same for EVGA X299 FTW K, also as a personal comment / option gigabyte's X299 UD4 Pro and X299 UD4 are quite solid boards that could ambient OC pretty well

If you're into bling though the Rampage is a pretty damn nice board.

rather X299 DESIGNARE EX for bling motherboards....

 

[Tomgang]

i would not take any of them. The EVGA board has 2 x 8 Pins to CPU with is good for OC cause skylake X can really go throw some watt when they are oc to around 4.6 GHz to 5 Ghz, but those small fans on the motherboard can be a pest if you are noise sensitive.

Asus ROG rampage VI extreme is very exspensive and only has 8 + 4 pins to delever power to CPU and that means less power to CPU and by that bigger chance for motherboard OC limits cause the lag of potentially not enough power to CPU and I can se you have the 14 core cpu and that is one of the power hungry models. So not my choise either.

I agreed with EarthDog this time. If you really mean serious business with overclock, ASUS ROG RAMPAGE VI APEX is my choise as well cause it is cheaper than the VI extreme board and it has 2 x 8 pins to CPU power as the EVGA dark but with out the noisy small fans.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-RAMPAGE-VI-APEX/

 

[EarthDog]

but those small fans on the motherboard can be a pest if you are noise sensitive.

Disagree here. I reviewed the board. I didn't hear it ramp up at all sitting 3' away from my head.

The dual 8-pin really is not a requirement for ambient overclocking. I've taken a 7900X to 4.5 GHz on boards with a single 8-pin EPS 12V. I am thermally limited, not power.

 

[Tomgang]

Disagree here. I reviewed the board. I didn't hear it ramp up at all sitting 3' away from my head.

The dual 8-pin really is not a requirement for ambient overclocking. I've taken a 7900X to 4.5 GHz on boards with a single 8-pin EPS 12V. I am thermally limited, not power.

Maybe not with a 7900X thats only 10 cores to feed with power. He has the 14 core CPU and will pull more power at the same OC clocks and it dosent make it better if you go with the 16 or 18 core model. A friend of mine has the 18 core model on a Asus apex board and that alone at 4.4 GHz can pull around 500 watt and it dosent help when he takes it close to the 5 GHz after he delid it.

I would still go with the apex. Specially if he plans on taking the CPU up at 4.8 GHz mark. If he just wanna run it at like 4.2 GHz then he can get away with a cheaper board.

 

[Gasaraki]

Dark. If you want the best overclocking.

 

[EarthDog]

Maybe not with a 7900X thats only 10 cores to feed with power. He has the 14 core CPU and will pull more power at the same OC clocks and it dosent make it better if you go with the 16 or 18 core model. A friend of mine has the 18 core model on a Asus apex board and that alone at 4.4 GHz can pull around 500 watt and it dosent help when he takes it close to the 5 GHz after he delid it.

I would still go with the apex. Specially if he plans on taking the CPU up at 4.8 GHz mark. If he just wanna run it at like 4.2 GHz then he can get away with a cheaper board.

Did I mention I am only using the 8-pin on the MSI XPower along with the 7960X at 4.5GHz (see sig) in my daily driver? Its also a 165W CPU. You aren't hitting a 24/7 clock of ~5 GHz with these many core CPUs my man.

You are also assuming he is delidding. So, until we hear more, we can only speculate what is going to happen.



EDIT: Really, after looking at the guy's sig... he has an AIO and I also wouldn't change the board he already has for any for ambient overclocking.

 

[usmc362]

Since I last posted I added an open loop cpu cooler and my cards both have an Evga Hybrid waterblock. My Cpu is de-lidded and I can run a stable 5.0GHz. on 14 cores.

 

[FR@NK]

Yeah I went with the Apex. I really need to delid and setup a custom water loop.

 

[usmc362]

Yeah I went with the Apex. I really need to delid and setup a custom water loop.

Sweet ride! I can't for the life of me find a new Apex board. Are they discontinued since the Rampage VI Extreme came out?