Your 2500 is more than good enough and I see no reason to change unless you run memory bandwidth intensive applications and/or graphics.
 
You will probably find several forum members who would recommend a different manufacturer but since the last BIOs update my system has been running quite smoothly and my USB 3.0 has also been fine.
 
 

Rjohnson11 I know the 2500 is still good but im just looking for somthing new to play with :)
and steak, how is the pci-e3.0 running for you? I have heard that some evga boards were having some issues. I do realize that Nvidia dosnt support 3.0 offically but even with the patch it seems like some issues. Is yours running in 3.0 ok?
thanks guys

mack-attack

Rjohnson11 I know the 2500 is still good but im just looking for somthing new to play with :)
and steak, how is the pci-e3.0 running for you? I have heard that some evga boards were having some issues. I do realize that Nvidia dosnt support 3.0 offically but even with the patch it seems like some issues. Is yours running in 3.0 ok?
thanks guys

 
Actually the problem has been that with a number of boards running the Nvidia driver patch for PCIE-3.0 only certain slots will register 3.0.  This is one of many issues with my Classy.  Slot 1 reports 3.0 while slot 2 reports 2.0.     This is the EVGA specific problem that you are hearing about with PCI-Express.

well i have just read through the troubled x79 thread...I dont think I will be getting a evga x79 mobo after all.  Still to many issues it seems. ill prob go wiht the gigabyte x79 ud3 instead.
thanks guys.

haha wow. lol Well I would asume they have, I havnt heard anthing about that. the article stated it happend in dec of 2011. I guess the only good thing to that is at least a person knows for sure whats going on with the mobo (burns out !!!). It seems from what I have been reading that unfortunaly even Evga dosnt have a handle on some of the issues plaguing there x79 boards. Not that having a mobo burn out is ok either.

Was it a Bios issue or Hardware issue Johnny?  I thought they had used poor quality vrms?

Johnny_Utah

mack-attack

Rjohnson11 I know the 2500 is still good but im just looking for somthing new to play with :)
and steak, how is the pci-e3.0 running for you? I have heard that some evga boards were having some issues. I do realize that Nvidia dosnt support 3.0 offically but even with the patch it seems like some issues. Is yours running in 3.0 ok?
thanks guys

Actually the problem has been that with a number of boards running the Nvidia driver patch for PCIE-3.0 only certain slots will register 3.0.  This is one of many issues with my Classy.  Slot 1 reports 3.0 while slot 2 reports 2.0.     This is the EVGA specific problem that you are hearing about with PCI-Express.

 
On my Classified, I've got my EVGA GTX 680's in slots 1 and 4, as that's what it labels as the PCIe x16 slots.  I have done the registry hack and then gone into the BIOS and set them at GEN 3, and after several attempts I can get it to boot, but even with everything set at default speeds, it's unstable and runs games and benchmarks at snail-like speeds!
 
This is an RMA board after I had issues with my original one, and even after doing the update for the software and the firmware, the USB 3.0 ports that I thought were working well, now are, again, a hit or miss proposition.  Sometimes they work, most times they don't.  I'm back to running a USB 2.0 hub to have enough ports to plug everything into.
 
I don't know if it's worth asking EVGA if they can do anything about it..., or if I should just write off this $450 board, and buy something else.
 
I've been looking at replacing my 28 inch monitors with a couple of 30", high-resolution ones..., but without being able to take full advantage of the PCIe 3.0 bandwidth, I think it would be a waste of money if I cannot get my Classified board to work.
 
I know they say they don't officially support PCIe 3.0, but the original literature inidicated that the X79 chipset would support it as well as USB 3.0, and the board I've got just doesn't cut it!  I've been very happy with everything I've gotten from EVGA over the last few years, but I sure wish someone would just let me, and others as well, know if there is is ever going to be a chance that they are going to come up with a solution!
 
I'm pretty displeased right now about having spent over $3000 for what is basically just a web-surfing machine.  I could do that on a $279 special from Walmart!