Posted February 3, 2016 Hi there, I'm planning on upgrading my server on a budget using a Xeon E3-1231 v3, but the motherboard im torn on, The Z87-Pro is a better deal, but i dont really like using mail in rebates, and id also have to have it shipped, the MSI doesnt have the MIR and is local to me, but if the asus is better i would rather wait than choose a lesser board. Thanks in advance, -UWillParish The time @nicklmg quoted me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 3, 2016 5 minutes ago, Uwillparish said: Hi there, I'm planning on upgrading my server on a budget using a Xeon E3-1231 v3, but the motherboard im torn on, The Z87-Pro is a better deal, but i dont really like using mail in rebates, and id also have to have it shipped, the MSI doesnt have the MIR and is local to me, but if the asus is better i would rather wait than choose a lesser board. Thanks in advance, -UWillParish Well if you were overclocking get the asus but because you are not overclocking (Xeons are not overclockable) get whatever is cheapest as both asus and MSI boards are solid choices. PC Specs: Core I5 4690K CPU Gigabyte GTX 960 windforce 4GB GDDR5 GPU Corsair 100R case Seasonic 620W S12-II PSU Kingston SSDNow 120GB SSD Toshiba 1TB HDD Asrock H97 Pro4 motherboard 8GB panram DDR3 1600 RAM Windows 10 home 64 bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 3, 2016 Well bouth (specially the MPower since i got one) are optimised for overclocking and since Xeon's are locked, there's no point in getting either, so save money and get a cheaper one Crust : Intel Core i5 4690K @ 4.4Ghz 1.45v | Motherboard : MSI Z97 MPower | Fruity Filling : MSI GTX 960 Armor 2Way-SLI | Cooling : Noctua NH-D15 | RAM : 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz | Storage : 2xSamsung 840 EVO 500GB SSDs Raid-0 | Power Supply : Seasonic X-Series 1250W 80+Gold | Monitor : Dell U2713HM 27" 60Hz 1440p | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 3, 2016 3 hours ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said: Well bouth (specially the MPower since i got one) are optimised for overclocking and since Xeon's are locked, there's no point in getting either, so save money and get a cheaper one I see from your signature you are pushing that mobo to the max as well. we managed to kill 4 of those at one event and the memory overclocking is not good compared with the Asus board. However in this case it's not going to matter as the xeon is locked. Rig Specs: AMD Threadripper 5990WX@4.8Ghz Asus Zenith III Extreme Asrock OC Formula 7970XTX Quadfire G.Skill Ripheartout X OC 7000Mhz C28 DDR5 4X16GB Super Flower Power Leadex 2000W Psu's X2 Harrynowl's 775/771 OC and mod guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/232325-lga775-core2duo-core2quad-overclocking-guide/ http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/365998-mod-lga771-to-lga775-cpu-modification-tutorial/ ProKoN haswell/DC OC guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/41234-intel-haswell-4670k-4770k-overclocking-guide/ "desperate for just a bit more money to watercool, the titan x would be thankful" Carter -2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 3, 2016 3 hours ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said: Well bouth (specially the MPower since i got one) are optimised for overclocking and since Xeon's are locked, there's no point in getting either, so save money and get a cheaper one Really pushing that board of yours man, 4GHz CPU and 1600MHz RAM. My current build - Ever Changing. Number 1 On LTT LGA 1150 CPU Cinebench R15 http://hwbot.org/users/TheGamingBarrel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 3, 2016 1 minute ago, Jumper118 said: I see from your signature you are pushing that mobo to the max as well. Wow, that hurts my eyes.. How dare he treat my bae like that Best Bench Runs & 24/7 Rig Spoiler Best Bench Runs i5 4670k (XTU) - 4.7GHz Core / 4.5GHz Cache | GTX 980 (FireStrike Extreme) 1620MHz Core / 4000MHz Memory (GPUPI) 1721MHz | G.Skill Ripjaws X 2x4GB - 2200MHz CL10-11-11-24 1T Spoiler 24/7 Rig & Clocks i5 4670k 4.5GHz (Swiftech H320) | MSI Z87 MPower Max | ASUS GTX 980 1580MHz 4000MHz (NZXT Kraken X41) | 3x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz | Corsair Air 540 | EVGA Supernova G2 850w | 120GB Kingston SSD | 1TB Seagate Barracuda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 4, 2016 8 hours ago, TheGamingBarrel said: 8 hours ago, Jumper118 said: Not The first time i got this, many tell me i should crank it down a notch, but you know what, i had real goo d experience with msi boards since ever (had a G45 Gaming before the MP), i did run the CPU at 4.2Ghz at first but it ran stable for like 5min, witch i believe is a CPU Problem, but it's been running at 4.0 for like 6 months now so, call me an msi fanboy , but still, i did see some pretty solid reviews on the Pro so, it's up to you m8 (keep in mind mine is a Z97) Crust : Intel Core i5 4690K @ 4.4Ghz 1.45v | Motherboard : MSI Z97 MPower | Fruity Filling : MSI GTX 960 Armor 2Way-SLI | Cooling : Noctua NH-D15 | RAM : 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz | Storage : 2xSamsung 840 EVO 500GB SSDs Raid-0 | Power Supply : Seasonic X-Series 1250W 80+Gold | Monitor : Dell U2713HM 27" 60Hz 1440p | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 4, 2016 7 hours ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said: Not The first time i got this, many tell me i should crank it down a notch, but you know what, i had real goo d experience with msi boards since ever (had a G45 Gaming before the MP), i did run the CPU at 4.2Ghz at first but it ran stable for like 5min, witch i believe is a CPU Problem, but it's been running at 4.0 for like 6 months now so, call me an msi fanboy , but still, i did see some pretty solid reviews on the Pro so, it's up to you m8 (keep in mind mine is a Z97) You bought a pro overclocking board for an auto overclock.. Smh Best Bench Runs & 24/7 Rig Spoiler Best Bench Runs i5 4670k (XTU) - 4.7GHz Core / 4.5GHz Cache | GTX 980 (FireStrike Extreme) 1620MHz Core / 4000MHz Memory (GPUPI) 1721MHz | G.Skill Ripjaws X 2x4GB - 2200MHz CL10-11-11-24 1T Spoiler 24/7 Rig & Clocks i5 4670k 4.5GHz (Swiftech H320) | MSI Z87 MPower Max | ASUS GTX 980 1580MHz 4000MHz (NZXT Kraken X41) | 3x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz | Corsair Air 540 | EVGA Supernova G2 850w | 120GB Kingston SSD | 1TB Seagate Barracuda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 4, 2016 17 minutes ago, CarterDavison said: You bought a pro overclocking board for an auto overclock.. Smh it's a manual OC dude, won't rely on turbo boost Crust : Intel Core i5 4690K @ 4.4Ghz 1.45v | Motherboard : MSI Z97 MPower | Fruity Filling : MSI GTX 960 Armor 2Way-SLI | Cooling : Noctua NH-D15 | RAM : 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz | Storage : 2xSamsung 840 EVO 500GB SSDs Raid-0 | Power Supply : Seasonic X-Series 1250W 80+Gold | Monitor : Dell U2713HM 27" 60Hz 1440p | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 4, 2016 51 minutes ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said: it's a manual OC dude, won't rely on turbo boost It was a joke.. You're on an overclock that an auto overclocking utility could do.. Best Bench Runs & 24/7 Rig Spoiler Best Bench Runs i5 4670k (XTU) - 4.7GHz Core / 4.5GHz Cache | GTX 980 (FireStrike Extreme) 1620MHz Core / 4000MHz Memory (GPUPI) 1721MHz | G.Skill Ripjaws X 2x4GB - 2200MHz CL10-11-11-24 1T Spoiler 24/7 Rig & Clocks i5 4670k 4.5GHz (Swiftech H320) | MSI Z87 MPower Max | ASUS GTX 980 1580MHz 4000MHz (NZXT Kraken X41) | 3x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz | Corsair Air 540 | EVGA Supernova G2 850w | 120GB Kingston SSD | 1TB Seagate Barracuda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 4, 2016 2 hours ago, CarterDavison said: It was a joke.. You're on an overclock that an auto overclocking utility could do.. I'd be lying if said i knew it was a joke , yeah i used an oveclocking utility called LawrenceBarnes2013 to generate the OC, pretty useful stuff Crust : Intel Core i5 4690K @ 4.4Ghz 1.45v | Motherboard : MSI Z97 MPower | Fruity Filling : MSI GTX 960 Armor 2Way-SLI | Cooling : Noctua NH-D15 | RAM : 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz | Storage : 2xSamsung 840 EVO 500GB SSDs Raid-0 | Power Supply : Seasonic X-Series 1250W 80+Gold | Monitor : Dell U2713HM 27" 60Hz 1440p | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 4, 2016 2 hours ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said: I'd be lying if said i knew it was a joke , yeah i used an oveclocking utility called LawrenceBarnes2013 to generate the OC, pretty useful stuff Nt rly because he's running 4GHz on a pro oc board Best Bench Runs & 24/7 Rig Spoiler Best Bench Runs i5 4670k (XTU) - 4.7GHz Core / 4.5GHz Cache | GTX 980 (FireStrike Extreme) 1620MHz Core / 4000MHz Memory (GPUPI) 1721MHz | G.Skill Ripjaws X 2x4GB - 2200MHz CL10-11-11-24 1T Spoiler 24/7 Rig & Clocks i5 4670k 4.5GHz (Swiftech H320) | MSI Z87 MPower Max | ASUS GTX 980 1580MHz 4000MHz (NZXT Kraken X41) | 3x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz | Corsair Air 540 | EVGA Supernova G2 850w | 120GB Kingston SSD | 1TB Seagate Barracuda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 4, 2016 1 minute ago, CarterDavison said: Nt rly because he's running 4GHz on a pro oc board Exactly Crust : Intel Core i5 4690K @ 4.4Ghz 1.45v | Motherboard : MSI Z97 MPower | Fruity Filling : MSI GTX 960 Armor 2Way-SLI | Cooling : Noctua NH-D15 | RAM : 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz | Storage : 2xSamsung 840 EVO 500GB SSDs Raid-0 | Power Supply : Seasonic X-Series 1250W 80+Gold | Monitor : Dell U2713HM 27" 60Hz 1440p | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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