3960x motherboards?

dtiao7eb

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Hey all,

a few minutes ago, my PSU (i hope its my psu) for my 980x just died. corsair 1200 watt.... i guess even good products die.

anyways I was just playing around on new egg. and was thinking to myself, what if its not my psu and its my mobo/cpu.

IF i were to upgrade to the 3960x what is a good motherboard to go with it. I currently use a rampage 3 extreme on my 980x and find the bios load time to be realllllly slow. Bios takes roughly 1 minute and windows takes like 5 seconds.

I would really like a mobo for the 3960x that has a boot time faster than my current rampage 3 extreme. can anyone offer a suggestion?

sorry if my post is random and hard to read. i just pretty pissed my psu died on me while in the middle of bf3 lol... :mad:

thanks for your input.
 
I would make sure what part is broken before you go out buying all new parts. You already have SATA 3 so you will not get a speed boost with a new motherboard.

I set the boot cores to 8, you could set it to 12 for your 980x and you can disable the boot GIU to save some time on your boot.
 
yeah i ordered a 750 watt psu... dont really need 1200 lol so i am just sitting on my thumb until it comes... the 3960x is still sandy bridge... when does the ivy bridge come out?

although i have the 2550k and the 3570K. I like the performance of the 2550k more than the ivy bridge. but i bought the ivy bridge on release date. hopefully there have been some improvements
 
yeah i ordered a 750 watt psu... dont really need 1200 lol so i am just sitting on my thumb until it comes... the 3960x is still sandy bridge... when does the ivy bridge come out?

although i have the 2550k and the 3570K. I like the performance of the 2550k more than the ivy bridge. but i bought the ivy bridge on release date. hopefully there have been some improvements

What?

If your motherboard/CPU are fine I would stick with what you have

The 3960x is on the 2011 platform. AFAIK it is a dead socket. It was for Sandy Bridge-E only Ivy Bridge is on 1155.
 
yeah reading reviews about 5ghz 3930k on a corsair h100 seems nice lol. i wonder what their temps are like. i guess intel is pushing back release b/c of lack of competition...
 
might not be the case, they may be tryin to get it perfect before release, its their enthusiast platform, vs the 1155 socket, which is the mainstream socket.
 
What?

If your motherboard/CPU are fine I would stick with what you have

The 3960x is on the 2011 platform. AFAIK it is a dead socket. It was for Sandy Bridge-E only Ivy Bridge is on 1155.

2011 is not a dead socket. 1366 and 2011 sockets are for six-core processors while the 1155 only has quad cores.

If you are looking for a processor which has more cores, the 2011 is the way to go. The Ivy Bridge is the same CPU as the Sandy its just a 22nm fabrication process so its more efficient. So there is no problem with running a 2011 platform if you want the extra cores. Which frankly is the reason I chose my 1366 platform over the 1155 (the 2011 had just came out when I built this computer and the only CPU for it was $1,000 so I didnt feel like forking out that)
 
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has more PCI-e lanes iirc over socket 1155 as well. Ivy is not the same animal as sandy, whole different fabrication process, their using 3D transistors in the architecture, and get more instructions out per watt. Its just a more efficient architecture than SB was.
 
has more PCI-e lanes iirc over socket 1155 as well. Ivy is not the same animal as sandy, whole different fabrication process, their using 3D transistors in the architecture, and get more instructions out per watt. Its just a more efficient architecture than SB was.

Thats what I said/meant. Same architecture just a new fabrication process. Meaning it shouldnt perform any different clock for clock.
 
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