x99 Replacement Board

iamthemoose · January 9, 2018

I have an MSI x99a gaming 7 right now running a 6900k with undiagnosable random crashes. I've managed to rule out ram, video card(s), PSU, harddrives. All that's really left is MB/CPU.

Trying to decide between ASRock x99 Extreme4, Gigabyte x99 Gaming5P, and ASUS x99-deluxe ii.

Would love some input.

doomsriker · January 9, 2018

28 minutes ago, iamthemoose said:

I have an MSI x99a gaming 7 right now running a 6900k with undiagnosable random crashes. I've managed to rule out ram, video card(s), PSU, harddrives. All that's really left is MB/CPU.

Trying to decide between ASRock x99 Extreme4, Gigabyte x99 Gaming5P, and ASUS x99-deluxe ii.

Would love some input.

I am just going to chime in here and say that I have never heard about a motherboard causing issues like crashing. Motherboards are more of a "They work or they don't" type of thing as all they really do is serve to bridge all your components together. Have you tried flashing the bios to the latest version?. I would reevaluate your diagnosis, as crashes are more often than not dew to OS problems, PSUs, and RAM.

iamthemoose · January 9, 2018

Bios at latest version. Drivers updated.

PSU replaced, ram swapped. Going to reinstall OS anyway.

When it crashes there's no BSoD, no errors generated, and sometimes but not always the bios reverts to factory defaults. Since I don't run OC on this (not even XMP) it only affects the fan curves.

I've stress tested under memtest86+, fuzzy donut, intel burnintest, each for at least 24h, no replicatable crashes. It's totally random. We've gone through everything our friend from Intel can suggest as well as Dr. Professor Beardasaur (and everyone on his stream) - general concensus is we're down to either CPU or MB. The only things that haven't been validated are CPU/MB/OS - and afaik (feel free to correct if wrong) OS crashes 1) generally create errors and 2) don't force factory defaults on MB.