Motherboard for i7-6800K

[Morgan Everett]

I'm trying to decide between an ASRock X99 Extreme 4 (released 2014) and Asus X99-e (released 2016). The former board is about £45 cheaper, which is a considerable saving, but is also much older, whereas the latter was released specifically for Broadwell-E. What do you think?

[Guest]

Doesn't matter much. I'd get the cheapest as they ate both decent

[Mikey_likes_it]

I personally would go with the Asus board only because of the quality of the components Asus uses ver ASRock but really they seem about the same

[Matt_98]

14 minutes ago, Morgan Everett said:

I'm trying to decide between an ASRock X99 Extreme 4 (released 2014) and Asus X99-e (released 2016). The former board is about £45 cheaper, which is a considerable saving, but is also much older, whereas the latter was released specifically for Broadwell-E. What do you think?

 

get the asus as you may need a bios update for the asrock to work with broadwell e

[Morgan Everett]

1 minute ago, Matt_98 said:

get the asus as you may need a bios update for the asrock to work with broadwell e

Nah, new boards should already have that, so it's not really a consideration.

[Morgan Everett]

8 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Doesn't matter much. I'd get the cheapest as they ate both decent

Would the Asus board's additional CPU power plug make a difference?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Morgan Everett said:

Would the Asus board's additional CPU power plug make a difference?

Maybe not. I can not be sure.