x58 board recommendation
 

Going to sell my x58 platinum and FSP 900W PSU when my corsair PSU arrives.

Looking for a board that can disable CPU throttling. Classifieds/R2E will be out of my price range unfortunately :( Unless there is $100 price drop coming soon :) All MSI boards have throttling enabled.

Is there a more "budget friendly" board that has this feature reliably?

Do not care about CF/SLI or other crazy features.

EVGA 3X SLI, although Im having some issues now with the rig, doesn't mean this board is not awesome.

what price range you looking at dude?

Is cheap a price range ?

$300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813188039

If I am going to Spend $300. I might as well just get an R2E or classified. I was thinking "budget" As in 200-250 new and I will grab it for 150+ used.

I have seen open box r2es on newegg for far less than that.

A la P6, r2Gene Foxconn etc. hmm newegg labelled the tpower board "world record OC for 940. Only 4.8 GHz though :( Wonder if that means throttling is disabled. I have only had 2 biostar boards before, both were cheap POS's but they were cheap lol One I only kept for a couple of weeks (945 chipset) other (I forget) was for socket A, NF2 maybe? Died and resurrected itsefl about 1-1.5 years later when I pulled it outta the closet and tried firing it up :) (That is one hell of a CMOS reset time I tell ya!)

well I was just recommending what I know does not throttle and I have and know is good. I can't vouch for anything else as i've never owned another board. what about the Gigabytes? They don't throttle I believe.

Hey Neuro, I found a review that was done on that board, and to me it looks like if you disable EIST in the BIOS it should disable the CPU throttling.

http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi..._x58_platinum/

Just wondering if you tried that.

Yup. Been to MSI forums, apparently ALL the boards have the throttling issues


With HTT on I can "see 4.4GHz" but CPUz drops down to 18x multi if I try to OC further.

Tried not using 21x or turbo mode (different settings) same deal 18x. IT is known to exist on all MSI boards, even the Eclipse (their "top" board) although I did here some mention about a bios update fixing it on the Eclipse.

Wish i had a sugg for yah Man but I only have experience with the EVGA boards.

Do all the EVGA board have the throttle lock?

*bah, never mind I know what I have to do. Pinch till it hurts and try to acquire one of the boards I can not afford. Sending my price/performance ratio into the toilet. Going to need a good board if I go chill water this winter can't mess around with something halfbaked :)

i believe they all do. At least mine never throttles down from 21x
Bro right now the board people are craving about are the Classifieds. Other than that UD5.

Dunno, whats a throttle lock?
I have a jumper for x-cool
Some of the bios features have cooling mode 1, 2, 3.
Some other crap I disable in the cpu functions. bout it.

Is throttle lock like when you push hard on the gas pedal of a 00 Camaro SS and when you mind tells you you're going too fast and lift the pedal, your body doesnt listen?
:green3:

Ah, in the inevitable car analogy... ok, do they have the ability to disable the governor ;)

I know you are running classys so probably have no clue LOL

For us peons... its this annoying feature that drops your multi if your going too fast only enabled on some boards, even though it is a Intel specification and is supposed to be part of ALL x58 motherboards. :) Dunno which ones you are running personally (x58 or NF200) which was why I asked if it had it.

Dropped some bids on ebay. Even thought about trying to repair some damaged sockets, if I was still working at twotech I would definitely take the chance of being able to repair one. I do not have the gear here to do it. Plus I would have to give up coffee for a week, which I do not want to do either.

kal what he is referring to is that if all EVGA boards have a locked 21x multi when in turbo mode. Unlike some boards who will throttle back and forth from 21x to 20x even with all power saving features off.

Sort of.

It does not just drop to 20x, that is the beginning. Push it harder and it drops to 18x.

Meh, regardless I need a better board, everyone tells me my vcore is too high for a D0. If I do not push it that high it does not boot. Either my drop/droop is really bad, or what I don't know.

Going to list my mobo on Ebay tomorrow since the i7 is torn apart anyway :) And just get me a big boy board

I am not compalinign about my board, I am not even sure that it REALLY is throttling, but software seems to think so.

For instance

http://hwbot.org/listResults.do?user...plicationId=14

was running 21x for 4.5 Gigajoules i mean massive hurt. err megahertz :) but I hit print screen too early and CPUz did not have a chance to up it 21x yet.

I up it to 220 Bclcok it drops to 18x under load.

Sorry if said before, you have the MSI right?