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Artah
I unfortunately been using the wrong company to buy motherboards from. Thanks all for the replies.

 
now is the time to switch ...

It's one of those things most people do not really consider but it does make a difference how easy it is to deal with an RMA. It's one area I think EVGA leads at.

The 12c CPUs sound interesting but lanes matter more for me than cores :D Each to their own I guess!

I think I would wait for the bugs worked out of the X299 first and maybe 1 or 2 bios updates after that, kinda like buying the 1st model car, your better off waiting.
Remember your gonna be the Guinea  pig on this one (as well as any 1st generation of anything).

I agree. I just think that the other motherboard manufactures don't give a f***.

I've tried to overclock my 6950x cpu and failed.
I've looked at many posts from different places on how to do it.
I've tried to copy other peoples stuff to no avail.
Any good tutors on the EVGA Classified (X99) motherboards on overclocking?
I didn't think that I'm that stupid but now I'm beginning to wonder!!!

jfw06013
I've tried to overclock my 6950x cpu and failed.
I've looked at many posts from different places on how to do it.
I've tried to copy other peoples stuff to no avail.
Any good tutors on the EVGA Classified (X99) motherboards on overclocking?
I didn't think that I'm that stupid but now I'm beginning to wonder!!!

In what way did it fail?  basically you have these things to adjust, not 100% sure about EVGA since I've been using Asus motherboards and can probably get a lot more accurate information if I decide to switch to EVGA.
 
0.  Inserted this one after re-reading your post :) Not the best thing to copy other people's settings because CPUs seem to never get created equal especially with the 6950x with 3.4 billion transistors.
1.  CPU core voltage stay around and mostly below 1.3v.
2.  Uncore a.k.a. cache, on the voltage stay below 1.3v and don't overclock it at all until the core is stable, you will get between 3.5-3.7GHz, it's not like a Haswell where you can almost match the core with uncore frequency.
3.  Input voltage between 1.920-1.940v
4.  Turn off spread spectrum/virtualization and possibly temporarily turn off all power saving features until you get a stable overclock.
5.  I would try to keep the base clock at 100MHz because when you go higher other things can de-stabilize
6.  Aim for 4.3GHz at first to make sure you can even stay stable with that on core frequency.
7.  If you will be using tests with AVX2 expect to have a lower clock speed stability and possibly more core voltage.  Example is I was stable with everything else with 1.27v @4.4GHz on my 6950X but when I throw in handbreak and using AVX2 I had to increase the core voltage to 1.291v.
8.  Make sure you don't overclock the memory at all while you are trying to get stable with the CPU which is supposed to be 2400MHz, that means don't use XMP because anything over is considered an overclock.
9.  Don't go past 1.2v on VCSA, less than 1.1v is good but even less is good, you will need to find the right one for your CPU because more or less can make it unstable and also for this voltage always adjust in small increments like 10mV or something like that.
10.  If you can adjust the VCCIO then drop it down .05v when you're ready to increase your memory frequency.
11.  It's late I'm sure I'm missing something if someone wants to correct my errors or add in things I missed, I'm sure I'll find some tomorrow after I am less sleep deprived.
 
I hope any of these help and good luck on your prayers to the silicon gods.