Asus X79 P9X79-E WS or Asus X79 RampageIV Black Edition

Hi,

Here is another new member seeking for advice. I´m building a new system next week and I still can´t decide on which motherboard to get. I’m now between Asus X79 P9X79-E WS and Asus X79 RampageIV Black Edition Motherboard. I’ll use any of those with a 4930k, 32 GB Vengeance PRO RAM and probably a GTX 780 Direct CU II from Asus.
The system will be overclocked, air cooled with a Noctua NH-D14 2011, and Noctua fans. It will be used for audio editing, light video editing and some gaming. Only 1 video card on its initial configuration (perhaps later adding a second GTX 780) and 2 UAD-2 PCIe cards (Universal Audio processing PCIe cards). My idea is to do a dual boot system with both Windows and Mac OSx,

The P9X79-E WS is recommended due to ECC and Xeon support (which I won´t use) and for its hardware validation which may come handy for the UAD-2 cards. The RIVBE is newer and has better reviews from OCers, more USB3 ports, and maybe with more improvements for IVY-E  (perhaps a marketing thing) etc. I´ve read good things about both but I still can´t decide.

If you could share any experience/recommendation or any other situation I may be overlooking, it would be greatly appreciated. As mentioned before, and even if this is not a dedicated Hackintosh forum, please share your experiences related to this if you can.

Thanks all for your time and help,

Hi i am also thinking on Rampage IV Black Edition.  This can depend on a lot of things not only specs and aspect, but on what will the pc build be the intended use(workstation/gaming rig..). Also price can be a large factor here, depending how much money you are willing to spend.

I would be choosing the X79 RampageIV Black Edition Motherboard cause  have a black/white chase ..so i didn't want to mess up the color scheme...

i think the with RampageIV Black you can get the Oc panel. This adds some "showoff" factor to pc build.

And there is a  really good Sound card built on the board.

Hope that my opinion helped somehow.

 


 

For overclocking: ROG

For stability and reliability: WS

I think that ROG is stability and reliability like the WS..