X79 Motherboard Roundup – ASUS Rampage IV Extreme, ECS X79R-AX, GIGABYTE X79-UD7, INTEL DX79SI

X79 Motherboards are aplenty and we’re bound to see countless revisions for at least the next 12 months. Much like with X58, each generation of boards coincided with better CPUs and higher overclocks.

With X58 it’s hard to say what the ultimate board was as the later 990 X and 980X CPUs were such wonderful overclocking CPUs that they negated the differences in most offerings. Especially at such stratospheric speeds, it was merely a test of which board was quicker to overclock rather than which one wouldn’t make the speed at all. At least that was the case with the better CPUs. Read the full story