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The Asus UEFI bios is very intuitive. We expected a comfortable, stable user experience and were not disappointed.
Overclocking the i7 3960X EE with the P9X79 Deluxe proved straightforward enough and we managed to post at 4.9ghz then 5.0ghz with the Antec H20 920 cooler installed.
To get stability at 4,900mhz and 5,000mhz our particular sample needed over 1.5 volts, which meant that the thermal footprint would run hot under load, around 90c.
We didn't want to kill the processor chasing benchmark figures over the last couple of weeks so backed down to 4.8ghz, which required around 1.475 volts for complete stability. This caused CPU temperatures to drop by around 10c to 80c under load, indicating that our CPU cooler had reached the limit.
Getting the system prime stable wasn't quite as easy as simply changing a few settings, as it required some fine tweaking within the Digi+ Power Control panel. The P9X79 Deluxe certainly doesn't disappoint in this regard, although many of these settings would be rather complicated and confusing for an inexperienced user.
Interestingly, our Core i7 3960X EE sample was stable at 4.7ghz with only 1.41 volts and many of the settings on automatic. We only had one sample at hand so are unable to compare against others. We are sure that 5.0ghz and higher is possible 24/7, with better, more expensive cooling.
Validation at 4.8ghz is available here.
Validation at 4.9ghz is available here.
32GB of ram for under £170, I find that hard to believe, nice find there on Amazon
ASUS bioses are really strong, a lot of people dont give them c redit for that work which is (to me) the main reason for buying a board.
I would opt for Rampage IV Extreme because of LN2 slow switch, it will really make a difference.
Very impressive setup. Shame it costs a fortune
Id love 32gb of ram witht this system
Rampage IV extreme is better. better bios settings.
Sure, rampage is better but you could buy a set of quality memory with this for the same price. its all about finances.
Niccely done. Not sure anyone would need 32GB of ram, id rather go for 8gb or 16GB but clocked faster. maybe just me.
“We could almost imagine that Corsair made this memory specifically for the Asus P9X79 Deluxe Motherboard, as shown above.”
Apart from the fact that corsair won’t be marketing quad channel vengeance with blue heat spreaders.