Best overclocking x299 motherboard

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I have a 7900x from silicon lottery, ive been waiting on the evga x299 dark because its supposed to be the best overclocking board out there. Gamer nexus gave it good reviews as far as vrm cooling.

Should I keep waiting? Or is there a dark horse im missing that is actually better then the x299 dark? Aesthetically I think the dark is awesome, the right angle connectors will make cable management in my caselabs case look pretty clean.
 
As the name says, X299 OC-Formula is dedicated to overclock, it's one of the best you can buy if you are looking for a overclocking oriented mobo.
 
If you are open to ASUS, the TUF X299 Series 2 is a good board with excellent overclocking potential with the right cooling. I have the board with an i7-7740X Kaby Lake processor. Stock clock is 4300 Mhz, but there is one button overclocking within the bios that will take you to 5000 Mhz on the first try. Lot of tweaking options in the bios to play with, as well. I have a Corsair H110i AIO cooler and a Corsair H850i power supply with it.

https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Motherboards/TUF-X299-MARK-2/
 
thesmokingman said:
As long as you can keep the vrms cool, the board doesn't really matter.
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Exactly, more than likely you will reach the end of the CPU's potential before you hit what the board can do, especially when you start getting into the 8 core+ chips, assuming you keep the VRM's cool.
 
kirbyrj said:
Exactly, more than likely you will reach the end of the CPU's potential before you hit what the board can do, especially when you start getting into the 8 core+ chips, assuming you keep the VRM's cool.
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Yea and what's hilarious is that there's like only 3 freaking voltages to change, offset plus, dram, and vccin. This platform is stupid easy to OC. I hit 5ghz on a 7820x minutes after building the rig, of course after relidding. Because frankly you are not getting very far on these Intel cpus w/o relidding. For ex. 5ghz on a cheap used board I got off the FS section, though cheap is relative.

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/3054582
 
As others have said, the motherboard doesn't really matter here. It's all about the CPU. My test i7 7740X can achieve a 5.0GHz overclock on every motherboard I've tried it on. The numbers you have to plug in vary somewhat, but essentially you adjust three or four voltage settings at most to increase the clock speed and that's it.

The overclocking oriented motherboards can give you more, but you've got to be willing to go with some sort of phase change or LN2 cooling to realize that extra level of performance such a motherboard can offer over a run of the mill X299 motherboard. These days more expensive motherboards are about added features and aesthetics than anything else. Everything that determines how the system performs is off the motherboard now. It's all in your CPU, RAM, disk I/O and GPU now. The motherboard has almost nothing to do with system performance.
 
Ive been reading that vrm cooling is the key to a high clock stable system. I bought the 2nd highest delidded/binned cpu from silicon lottery binned for 4.7ghz, so Im trying to pick the best board to pair it with. The silicon lottery qvl list only list asus apex/extreme, and asrock tachie xe/oc formula. both the asus apex and extreme have throttling issues because of vrm temperature. I have a reservoir with fans set up in a push/pull, but they are exhausting air. So Im trying looking for a board that doesn't need direct cooling to the vrm. The asrock tachie xe/oc formula would work, they are both on the silicon lottery qvl list.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/60534/supermicro-shows-c9x299-pg300-motherboard/index.html

supermicro is about to launch their new x299 board, c9x299-pg300, with a tdp rating of up to 300w. anyone have experience with their non-server equipment?
 
these cpus are power hungry monsters esp the HCC units, overclocking one you must expect to need to cool the VRM esp if its inside a closed up case.
 
You could look into the EVGA Dark x299 mobo which comes with VRM cooling.
 
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