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Well I didn't get any responses for my request for help, probably because of the Donkey reply about my Grammar.  
     1st I apologize to all of you for my grammar, spell check on an IPhone isn't the greatest.
     2nd I made it to 11th grade before beat the biggest bully in high school up so bad that I got arrested and was in the Navy two weeks later, but he hit my best friend my baby brother god rest his soul.
     3rd I started out on Submarines as an Engineman but the XO didn't like Mexicans nor half breeds and called me something I didn't like so I broke his jaw, (did I mention at the time I was 4'11" and Weighed 112 lbs, but I was a golden gloves champ, I had that going for me). I went from E-1 to E-2 to E-1several times and when they kicked me off the submarines I was lower than whale stuff but a FEW GREAT NAVY CHIEFS set me straight and I went from E-1 to E-6 in less than 6 years no hand outs all the hard way and I made E-7 in 9 years then E-8 in the latter part of my 12 year but I was also selected and W-2 A Chief Warrant Officer and (when I got my departing EVAL from submarines they gave me all 1's (this isn't good at all)and in the write up they said I would amount to nothing) and I retired after 31 years as a W-5 the 6th one in my Designator "Boatswain" and I did it in 26 years. So yes no high school diploma not even a GED, but I am working on my degree but My heart and this dyslexia really makes it hard but when I work on something I like I do well so my GPA at ITT Tech is a 4.5.
     Now 4th I was just asking for advice a little help. Didn't get any from any of you and over the years I have been pretty helpful, You guys that have water blocks for your Dark boards did you know that Nate had the drawings but he had my board as well for 6 months for test fitting and unfortunately this is why one board had to be replaced, it was a simple mistake and I do not hold that against Nate as he still helps me out with stuff because he is a great guy. I still wish he would have used stand offs like the factory blocks but that would have raised the cost of the blocks and he was thinking of you guys.
     As for the issues I have been having, I called the other day for TECH support and I always write the names down but this one guy was a real jerk he said that all the board I sent back nothing was wrong with them, I know board (2) fried my Gskill DDR3 2133 F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH  4096X4 CL 9-11-10-28 1.65v Gskill RMA'ed the memory and the new stuff is top self memory, and my Gskill DDR3 2400 F-3-19200CL11Q-16GBHZD 4096X4 CL 11-11-11-31 1.65 was the set I didn't want to put in there but I was told to try it again and sure enough it took this set out as well. As I mentioned above the reading the board was giving me were way lower then what the Flute Multi meter was giving me, what drove me to test the voltage was the board would not boot into windows and I had this issue before with my Classified board and the fix was add a few volts to the memory because the board may say 1.65 but what you are actually getting is 1.52 or 1.50 and this means a lot when you are tiring to get the 2133 or 2400 to hit its mark. I learned this with the P67 board when I first started using 2133 Memory from Gskill. I called them told them it wasn't booting and they told me what setting to use and I passed this information on to all the guys that were trying to get their 2133 to work back then, I gave them the timing and voltages, the works that I got from Gskill. As that is what the forum is for not to show how big your balls are or your brain. Anyway I was getting power spikes from the board I tested the power supply and it was solid but at start up the voltages would go up and then drop to my setting and this is what took out my memory. I explained this to the tech and I didn't even get a I sorry.
     On the 3rd board My CPU died it was a 3930 and I lapped it so I am out $589.00 That long beep and screech will never be forgotten. again trying to remain positive another.
    On the 4th Board I asked for it to be tested  before it would be sent to me, when it got here I verified that it was tested with a phone call to TECH Support and since I got no help or advice from the forum I spent the time to remove my ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition AC4 board which is completely water cooled, it has a bad NIC and I figured since the EVGA Dark Board has 2 NIC's and looks and feels like a tank part it would be better Motherboard to use. Using Nate's water blocks  I had the Dark plumed and it looked sweet. I just took every thing out of the Asus build and put it in the EVGA Dark Build and used the same power supply. First push of the button nothing at all. I tested all the wires and noticed that one of the extensions for the 8 pin connectors at the top of the board had a bad crimp. I was using those expensive red and black ones from Frozen CPU and they don't solder them (Crap for the price they charge for each) so I re routed my two 8 pin cables and plugged them in and it started and stopped at 70, the Techs and a number of phone calls later We decided that there is something wrong with the board. Now usually I test out side the case first but I figured since they guaranteed it went through a bunch of testing before it went out I would be ok. I didn't loose any vitals but I am sure this is because I never got past 70 in the boot cycle.
     The best thing out of all this is the last person I spoke with told me that the boards that took out my memory and CPU were actually found bad and one found ok. so the guy that was a jerk to me can kiss my butt.
     Now once the RMA is closed out for a Video Card I can submit the RMA for the 5th Dark Board. I HAVE YET TO LOAD WINDOWS WITH A DARK BOARD. 
I hope you can read this and if not I tried. If you want to know something about watercooling I am, pretty good at it.

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My biggest issue was Memory on the Black and at the cost I really had little issues other them Memory.
I could never get stable at 2133 and that was my goal, 1600 was the highest I ever got on 2400 MHz Memory the same memory that is on my Dark MB. Also I have never really liked ASUS Bios.
The other reason that the ASUS Forum provides little or no support for new users.
The EVGA Forum has helped me get back into Computer Building and they continue to help me and others.
I see ASUS users also asking for help on their ASUS Motherboards and users here Help them.

bcavnaugh
My biggest issue was Memory on the Black and at the cost I really had little issues other them Memory.
I could never get stable at 2133 and that was my goal, 1600 was the highest I ever got on 2400 MHz Memory the same memory that is on my Dark MB. Also I have never really liked ASUS Bios.
The other reason that the ASUS Forum provides little or no support for new users.
The EVGA Forum has helped me get back into Computer Building and they continue to help me and others.
I see ASUS users also asking for help on their ASUS Motherboards and users here Help them.

bcavnaugh,
  So you are running your DDR3 2400 at 1600 on the Dark board? This is somthing I am willing to do and just tighten up the timming. I just need to get another board. When I call this time I will tell them everything I am running as I think they used my old sig to set the board up when the tested it and sent it out. I will take the hit for that.

manojks
I have to agree with bcavnaugh there. I started this X79 trip with the EVGA X79 FTW. With its USB 3.0 issues and some weird C bug on the debug LED. We had to go around ourselves on this forum searching for the firmwares for the Hub & USB controllers. Some of us took risks and tried them out, beta testing it ourselves and some worked out really well as you can see the firmware of one was listed to be downloaded. 
 
Well after the C bug and the RMA, I went and try the ASUS X79 Rampage Formula. OMG what a terrible bios, i had no idea what i was doing, reading the manual made it worse. And the colors... who puts white pci-e slot unlocks on their boards that are red and black.... come on !
 
So after a year or so, we got invited to the upgrade of the year. EVGA X79 FTW -> EVGA X79 Dark. Well it just worked. And I can easily understand the new UEFI bios too and the feedback forum end users give actually gets listed to. Even Dave from EVGA made a brilliant manual for the EVGA X79 Dark, that would help out so many people.
 
I'll say the support here from EVGA & the forum users here is just one of the many reasons why my EVGA X79 Dark is just amazing. 

manojks,
   I have the Rampage IV Formula board as well because the X79 Classified Board was a disaster and I met teses guys on the Asus Forum Hiviz and Andy and they taught me how to work the crap out of the Asus Bios, I had my 3930 using 2133 and 2400 at speed clocked at 4.8 and in an offset configuration and temps were never above 29c and the the vid ws 1.312v as for the Black board and the 4930 it is a very tricky animal. and the board itself is very thin. This is why I like the Dar so much. And I love the lighting, I am wierd like that. "Squirel" I just want to get this board up and running. I calling here in a minute.  

     
  

That is good to know. Sorry, to hear though. I set my Gskill at XMP and in Dram timing since I am using a 4930 I use the Rampage tweak Mode 3, and in my Formula board I used 2. This is where it gets interesting, my VTT is 1.05000 VCCSA is 1.050 Mem Voltage is 1.65 set in the bios and reads with the Flute Multi Meter at 1.65103 And in the DIGI setting I I put CPU Load line Cal @ High, CPU Current to 160%, Voltage Freq to Auto, VRM Over temp  to disable since it is water-cooled power duty to extreme, vcore MOS volt auto, power phase control to Extreme and Vcore Bootup to Auto,as for CPU VSA- VCCSA Load Line Cal- High, VCCSA Current Capability  120%, VCCSA Fived Freq to 300 and CPU VCCSA BOOTUP Voltage to Auto, CPU VTT- CPU VTT Switching Freq to 1.3X (this really helps with stability) and CPU VTT Over Current Protection-Auto, Dram Voltage- DRAM AB Current Capability-130%,Volt Freq-Auto, Power Phase to Auto,and the same for Dram CDPCH1.1v Switching Freq 1.3X  (this really helps with stability).This helped me get past DDR 3 1600. HIVIZ and Arne. I hope this helps if you pull the board back out.
The Boatswain
 

EDIT : Opened a separate topic for my issue.

Interesting, I don't use the probe but was reading off hardware monitor (software) and CPU-Z. I have also tested other memory with X79 Dark and if you are interested I can list them here. No compatibility issue except 1 - Corsair Vengeance LP Blue 2x4x4GB 32GB.