Recent content by stormslayer

Whoa. Not everyone is merry this season. I asked who to blame between Asus and Intel, not because I'm intolerant of failure or want to yell at someone, but only because I would like to have an idea if this mb + cpu combo is bad, or one particular part is bad. There's a non-zero risk of...

Huh. I know this is an N of 2, but do we blame Asus or Intel?

Thanks everyone for responding. I tried one stick of RAM and that got nowhere (on two different mb's). In fact, I tried NO RAM at all just to see if I could at least get a different debug code than the dreaded 00 and no luck. Does anyone know how accurate that little LED (near the large power...

I'm freaked out. Have built almost two dozen systems over the past 15 years and I've had the usual amount of hardware fails -- a few motherboards that had issues, a failed gpu, etc. Never had a CPU go bad. Built a new rampage V ed. 10 w/ i7-6900k about three weeks ago and this week in the...

Yup. The "A" is the new model w/ usb3.1. Personally, I don't care about the usb update -- but having all the bugs ironed out = awesome. Updated bios for most of the new msi boards is at http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=133282 sd

Folks: In another thread I asked a few questions about x99 mb's without bugs and I ended up replacing an msi x99s xpower with an msi x99a xpower -- the only difference is supposed to be the addition of usb 3.1 to the x99a. The reason for the new board is that the old board had one of the...

Thanks for the advice everyone -- appreciate it. sd

x58 users unite! Thanks for all the comments -- the reason I originally went w/ MSI is b/c of the huge number of complaints about the rampage V (which, from looking at the ROG forums, don't seem to have let up). One additional issue with MSI, though, besides my failed board is that they...

Wow. I guess I could dust off the x58 platform I have that still works... sd

Folks: I had an msi x99 xpower ac. It was "mostly" stable for the past year and a great performer, but there were semi-continual annoyances w/ USB devices and booting. Finally, woke up this week and found the computer dead -- the primary bios is trashed (a hardware issue, unrecoverable) and...

Some thoughts: 1. did you update the bios? The latest on the website for msi is 1.4 and that's a must. But, on http://www.overclock.net/t/1511496/official-msi-x99s-motherboard-owners-club there's a beta in the thread of 1.5 that worked really well for me. 2. I assume you're starting off...

What ram and timings are you trying? Hard to believe it's the motherboard, esp since you're on your second. I have 64gb of vengeance running at 2400 without any problems.

Any difference in build quality between the xpower and rog? I'm also interested in the heat difference -- it seems from your review and other sites that the xpower runs cooler than the rog. True? thanks for all the info. sd

Folks: been trying to decide between boards and these are two on the list for use with an i7-5960x. One weird thing on the guru3d review on both boards is that the cpu temps are a lot lower for the msi board than the rve. Any clues why this would be? It seems like it's enough that it'd...

Use a thumbdrive (it's a file system problem)