You said it best man :) I always keep my machine upgraded to latest and greatest, I didnt feel the love on the x58 platform at all, the 980x didnt OC well, the 990 did well on evga, but not sure if you noticed the little weird things.
1.) Under x58 platform right after installing windows, no drivers menus seemed choppy, fast but a choppiness to them, under the x79 its not there
2.) itunes on open would always oc'd or non oc'd would lock for about 4 seconds, my library is about 600GBs with movies, music and tv shows, under x79 instant load
3.) Hard drive space lol
With x58 platform how many times did I have to reseat the cpu or memory etc, this board first time it booted and i started working on it, never had to reseat anything or remove anything off the motherboard etc etc everything just worked on first try.
Everything just runs smoother it feels, everything ive tried worked on first goes, the included software is actually useful believe it or no.
I do hear people saying they have VRM getting to hot and downclocking the CPU, I havent had this issue. Asus just may have earned a customer back lol but need to use it more first before i make a final call.
I still have TWO evga classys in my closet new in box incase anything happened lol, i had two that had that reboot bug, but I had boot hangs on the rampages on most memory i tried :P
You mention temps, review sites are saying they cant keep things things cooled, but my 990x ran hotter with 1.4v, full load i was hitting 81, the 3960 full at 1.4 is getting 59 average with a couple dips to 60, same water cooler as well
BTW - What is happening with evgas x79 offerings? I know they are out there, but none of the retailers I use had them, and found no reviews.
post edited by TechAnalyst - 2012/01/13 12:08:55