i7 6950x - Asus or MSI motherboard

manbat

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Hi
I currently use a 1660v3 in an Asus RVE mobo. All manual voltage and newest bios.

I've ordered an i7 6950x from AliExpress but I'm a bit scared to use this chip in my Asus RVE motherboard because of the thread of the OC socket killing the CPU. I have an extra x99 mobo, a MSI x99 titanium.

The thing is the MSI mobo can't overclock the cache as good. Only 3.6ghz where RVE can do 3.9ghz on 1.1v cache.

Thoughts?
 
If you realistically think the board is going to kill the cpu than its not an option. You won't be losing a noticeable amount of performance unless it's during benches even if your was hitting 4 vs 3.6 cache
 
Your board hasn't killed your current CPU <shrug>. Is it a 6950x issue with the RVE?
 
Curious why you ordered from AliExpress... are they a lot cheaper than eBay?
 
Cache on broadwell-e doesn't overclock as well as haswell-e anyway so may as well toss it in the MSI first.
 
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