It's a misconception that Heineken is a beer.Originally Posted by rfarris
Anyway Mirai, I absolutely loved that video and actually learned a lot from it!
It's a misconception that Heineken is a beer.
Anyway Mirai, I absolutely loved that video and actually learned a lot from it!
Everything that is fun in life is either bad for your health, immoral or illegal!
That's right I did see it on overclockers.co.uk. I guess what I meant was that I've never seen any of that stuff for pre-order in the US, and even if I did, I think it would feel weird to pre-order hardware like that because you never really know if there's enough coming to that site/store.
I don't think places really do pre-orders on hardware for that main reason. Games, on the other hand, are easily pre-ordered because there are tens of thousands of them (physical copies) being sold on day one. I doubt that Asus motherboard will be shipping and selling tens of thousands on day one, especially since the X79 chipset is about to be two years old, but I guess at $500 you're almost guaranteed that the pre-order ships to you on time because I doubt they'll be flying off the shelves with that price tag.
Unless the holiday season is incredibly good to me, I doubt I'll be buying that board or any video cards. Honestly, this EVGA was overkill, but for $400 I would've expected a better board than what I got. It's stable at 4GHz which is keeping me happy for the time being, but that's the thing, I don't want to spend my income on an extreme overclocking hobby, where, if I burn up my board or chip I can just dish out another $500 to buy a new one -- No thank you.After watching your video MiRai, I am kind of curious if are going to sell your last kidney for this motherboard!? Or did you use it to upgrade your video cards?
$500 is a lot of money for a motherboard that I'm not going to use the features on. A board like that is built to push overclocking records, when in reality, I have a conservative overclock because I'm cooling with air and I'd rather not degrade my chip in less than a year.
If I have a healthy amount of cash saved up by this time next year, I will most likely be dropping it on an 8-core Haswell-E chip on the X99 chipset -- That should be sexy -- But we're talking a lot of money since I'd like to move my hardware to a rack rather than a case that sits on the floor.
Woohoo! Rampage IV Black Edition is up on Newegg. Doesn't ship until 19-Nov.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813132053
My Rampage 2 has now become my bedroom home theater pc. That board looks sweet. I purchased a Corsair h80i watercooler and my i7 3770k is stable at 4.5 on my Asus P8z77-v pro board. I would highly recommend that cpu cooler. At load I may get 42C.
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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus
Rampage IV Black Now on Shelves
Order Summary:
Sales Order Number: 73625xxx
Sales Order Date: 11/18/2013 11:07:05 AM
1 x ($499.99) MB ASUS|RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION R
$499.99
Nice. Do you plan to do some extreme overclocking with the machine?
No, not really. lol. But I wanted a modern MB that supported a 6-core processor and 4-way RAM interleaving. I was pretty impressed by the post on ROG where one of the engineers mentioned that they'd prototyped 5 different memory layouts before they got to this one. Oh yeah, I wanted to be able to run multi-way SLI.Do you plan to do some extreme overclocking with the machine?
And the difference in cost between the cheapest one I could find and $500 wasn't all that significant to me. If the price had been $1,000 I would have bought a different one. And I don't plan on buying another one for a couple of years.
This X79 Dark is just giving me too many issues and the EVGA X79 sub-forum has turned from excitement to disappointment with nothing but unresolved issues after their latest launch. Other motherboards I'm looking at just don't cut it for my needs (minimum 3-way SLI and lots of SATA III ports). My choices were pretty much Asus Rampage IV Extreme for $400, or the sexy Rampage IV Black for $480, so I took the plunge...
http://i.imgur.com/xcC3O98.png
The thing won't be here until next month some time because it's on back order, but oh well. This cuts into my video card fund like a mf'er.
Anyone want to buy an EVGA X79 Dark for cheap?
I figured they would go onto backorder - that's why I preordered mine. I still haven't got the memory. Probably in a couple of weeks.
@MiRai ... how did your Evga Dark fit your Silverstone being its a atx and the mb is a eatx? From the vid it looked like a perfect fit but I was wondering , I ordered the Asus Extreme VI mb and I currently have the Silverstone Ft02s-w my mb should be here Friday and I was gonna do a weekend build.But I don't wanna run into a oh crap case and mb don't work together then be sitting all weekend with parts(money) sitting in front of me.
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