Post your X79 (2011 LGA) experiences here.

[DUBTEMPLE]

Originally Posted by Oldone

It's a screaming machine. I can run PT10 at 32 buffers with .72ms latency

Thanks for posting ,. and congratiolations with your dream-machine !!!!

Now what you write there seemingly has a VERY interesting aspect, you
see, extremly low Latenzy, and perfect behaviour ina bridged inviroment
is what many of us had been waiting for, for mounths, but it appears as
if you succeded with your combo of PCI-lynx, and a bridged PCIe board.

Maybe there is still hope, also for these of us that are stucked with X58,
and "old", but extremely expensive RME HDSP PCI-stuff, that untill now
have never behaved well on the new Motherboards with PCI/PCIe bridge

Well, maybe its only Lynx that does the trick, maybe the bridge-solution
on this specific board, or maybe a combination, hope an answer is near,..

[CoolColJ]

The firewire port on the Asus P9X79 works fine here with the Saffire PRo 24 DSP - even if it doesn't have a TI chip.
No problems with low buffer size like 64 samples with latest driver.
PCI slot houses the Delta 66 without any issue
Will see how it works with the Lynx HiLo USB port wise when it gets here

Got my 3930k running at 4.4ghz stable - will hit 4.5, crashes at 4.6
I don't know how to OC these Ivy bridge CPUs, so I let the motherboard do most of it too me
It had me at 3.9ghz with Turbo, but I use the software to knock it up to 4.4 in Windows

Using a Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 heatsink/fan, using the low noise cable, and the Asus fan software running it at pretty low RPM, doesn't get all that hot even then.

Got 16GB of Corsair Vengance low profile ram - MB overclock settings have it running a shade over 1333mhz and 1.5v, even though they are rated at 1600

This setup is almost 2x faster than my old x58 i7 930 at 4ghz when doing some 3D rendering


edit - had issue booting off an Intel 520 240GB SSD, when the Windows 7 DVD wasn't in the drive, until I set it to AHCI sata mode - after editing the registry in Windows to support this - Google it
Still can't the HD SMART mode working - software says SMART is turned off, but it's on in the Bios!!

[jackURbody]

I have a X79 sabertooth on the way. I am currently using an RME UCX and I'm wondering if I should buy a firewire TI Chipset PCIe card to use the UCX as I dont think the firewire on the sabertooth is TI chip. Or will I just use USB for running it? Will firewire give better performance do you think?

[Masaaki]

I use UFX with several PCs, and most of them are equipped with TI FW chip (either onboard or PCI/PCIe card). Absolutely zero problems with TI FW chip. But I also know UFX works with VIA FW chip, and in some cases (laptop) Ricoh FW chip. Low latency performance is slightly better with FW than USB connection (check TAFKAT's DAWBench), but you really need to push hard to see that difference. I use USB connection whenever I move the interface around (ex. between desktop and laptop), and that's where hybrid interfaces like UFX/UCX are really convenient. So why don't you try UCX with the onboard TI FW chip, and compare the performance with USB connection. If FW doesn't work well (check legacy 1394 driver as well), then you can buy the PCIe FW card with TI chip later. Remember, you need to install both USB and FW drivers for those hybrid interfaces (FAQ at RME's forum).

[CoolColJ]

Via chip on my Asus P9X79 works fine with the Saffire here
Depends on the audio interface driver I suppose.

[jackURbody]

Originally Posted by Masaaki

I use UFX with several PCs, and most of them are equipped with TI FW chip (either onboard or PCI/PCIe card). Absolutely zero problems with TI FW chip. But I also know UFX works with VIA FW chip, and in some cases (laptop) Ricoh FW chip. Low latency performance is slightly better with FW than USB connection (check TAFKAT's DAWBench), but you really need to push hard to see that difference. I use USB connection whenever I move the interface around (ex. between desktop and laptop), and that's where hybrid interfaces like UFX/UCX are really convenient. So why don't you try UCX with the onboard TI FW chip, and compare the performance with USB connection. If FW doesn't work well (check legacy 1394 driver as well), then you can buy the PCIe FW card with TI chip later. Remember, you need to install both USB and FW drivers for those hybrid interfaces (FAQ at RME's forum).

Yep, just gonna do that. The sabertooth runs the VIA 6315N fw chip. I'll try on both and see the difference, I'm sure in any case the USB will be fine for my needs but may at some point get a TI Chip PCI card just to fill the slot!

[alexlotta]

Jumped here as i'm looking (from months ,had to get the info on "new" technology stuff and my head now is boiling ,really a lot to catch up for me but doing my homework about )
For a DAW Build with 3930k X79 .
I'm italian and there is no reputabe daw builder here.
i have still to sort out sadly .more i look more possible troubles i read ,
mainly ram /cpu compatibility stuff.
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First a straight question to you sensorychaos !!
=
Have you tried your CREAMWARE with your x79 build?
I have a Creamware pulsar pci too ,which i'm not using atm but
i visited official forum and found just issues wth new sockets (x7* and z7*)
due to bridge chip having not enough bandwith for the pci cards.

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Then ,
i'm trying to find answers to the most pressing issue !
***RAM compatibility .***
Ideally i would look for 32gb 1600mhz (8gb x 4 ),
to load orchestral libraries.

_BUT so far i read there are 2 main problems :

1)Rams compatibility with MOBO/CPU ,and alsorams changing specs from batch batch ,
even from reputable vendors using different chips
2)Ram not compatible with large efficient cpu coolers due to high-profile memory heatspreaders (tall).
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Now i would like A LOT ( quite i beg an HELP ^^ )
to be pointed out towards successful working x79 systems with specs above.
I think i will wait september ,
also because in italy i find quite late the new stuff (and i need to buy in Italy for taxing porpouses)

For the rest of the system (psu,video etc) i think i will sort out later ,less problematic i believe.
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Out of question ,a new gigabyte got released silently
GIGABYTE GA-X79-UP4 which offers 1 pci slot also .Not a ram- qualified QVM list atm,
price looks nice about 250 in US.

Hope vendors come up with much more compatible boards around though .
_
Looking forward to read some experience ,and link to other place too i'm ready to check.
ty in ADVANCE guys!

[CoolColJ]

Just get some Corsair - low profile - quad channel Vegenace 16GB 1600mhz ram, it's cheap and works well. That's what I'm using. Also comes in a grey colour
Vengeance® Low Profile Blue — 16GB Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit (CML16GX3M4A1600C9B) - Vengeance - Memory by Product Family
Just get 2 kits if you need 32GB

I would stay away from Gigabyte. The UEFI bios thing is not as good as Asus, and Gigabyte traditionally has slow post/boot times and poor sleep/standby stability and options. My last system was an X58 Gigabyte one, never again! Previous P4 system was an Asus, and my P9X79 behaves much like that old P4P800 did - kinda funny how each company has a distinct character that is retained from generation to generation...

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Just an update.

the Motu PCI 424 card I installed onto my P9X79 system works brilliantly - I can use the 16 sample buffer size for 0.8ms in and 0.8ms out latency in Reaper!
Although with more complex plugins, I have to bump it up to 64, which is still good for 1.9ms in and 1.9ms out in Reaper
Pretty sure there is enough bandwith as the card can take my Motu 24I/O and two 2408 mk3 interfaces, thats fourty 24 bit 96 khz inputs and outs at the same time...

So I've used Firewire - Saffire, USB - Lynx Hilo, and PCI - Motu 424 all with low buffer size and flawless operation, all at the same time.
Firewire was with the native ports, as is the USB. Will try the PCIe verison of the Motu next.

Only thing that didn't work 100% was my Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle USB 3.0 video capture device.
I had to add a cheap $12 USB 3.0 NEC chip PCIe card from Ebay to make it work. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/250875338...84.m1439.l2649
It doesn't like the native ASMEDIA chip USB 3.0 ports

[alexlotta]

ty bro ,great to hear you got pci working.
Regarding Creamware (and some Rme cards like Madi )
i did read bandwith its too large for ite bridges actually,no way out-
(curious to gear from sensorychaos about).Gonna sell it probably after a while.

For 2 kits, i did read could be "hit or miss" if they are not "batch matched ".that's why i did look for 4x8gb and dont think at it anymore.

ALso i think you got 1,35v kit for x79 ?In italy i could'nt find them ,and i need in Italy for taxing discharge porpouse.
Curiosity..Rest of your rig (cpu /cooler)?
Still not enough experiences online though.

Gonna wait mid semptember at least , hoping to find locally all the stuff.

[CoolColJ]

The Corsair kit is 1.5v, I'm running it at that and 1600mhz
You can probably run it at 1.35v at 1333mhz

i7 3930k running at 4.2ghz with Noctua NH-D14 SE2001 CPU and heatsink - with the low noise cable adapter plugged into the P9X79 CPU header - the 2 included PWM fans are very quiet and change speed with load from the motherboard. They run as low as 300rpm at idle and can't be heard at idle and loads that a DAW will generate, nothing as hot as when I'm rendering 3D graphics.

in a Silverstone FT02 case. the 3 bottom case fans controlled by a Zalman fan controller, running at 500 RPM. And 1 Scythe Slipstream low speed fan at the top running at a fixed 600rpm. It's a postive pressue case - 3 180mm fans blow in, a 120mm for exhaust, and natural convection since the motherboard slots face upward, instead of backwards like most PC cases. So no dust and garbage gets sucked in as a result

Also use a 1000w Kingwin LZP-1000 powersupply running in ECO mode, the power supply fan stays off until it reaches 65-70 degrees, 650-700rpm and then drop to 450-500rpm at 45-50 degrees, where at lower temps than this, the fan will turn off. The fan hasn't turned on at all so far, so it's effectively fanless... there is also no whine and coil buzz, most silent power supply I've ever used!

This combo is so quiet I can barely tell a difference from when the PC is on and when it's in standby! But I had to suspend my mechanical HDDs with elastic bands though to remove the vibration drone

SPCR • View topic - Low frequency resonance/ thrumming sound

[Synetos]

So, I figured I would chime in since i just built my system over the last few days.
Specs:
MB = ASUS P9X79 PRO - LGA2011 - X79 - 8x DIMM - PCIe 3.0 Motherboards
VIDEO = ASUS HD7870-DC2-2GD5 Radeon 2GB DDR5 VGA/DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort GPU Tweak Utilities PCI-Express 3.0 Graphics Card HD7870-DC2-2GD5
CPU = Intel Core i7-3930K Hexa-Core Processor 3.2 Ghz 12 MB Cache LGA 2011 - BX80619I73930K
CPU COOLER= Corsair Hydro Series H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CWCH100)
RAM = 32GB RAM using Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz PC3 12800 Quad Channel 240-Pin Desktop Memory CMZ16GX3M4X1600C9G
FIREWIRE = Syba Low Profile PCI-Express 1394b/1394a (2B1A) Card, TI Chipset, Extra Regular Bracket SD-PEX30009
DVD = Asus 24xDVD-RW Serial ATA Internal OEM Drive DRW-24B1ST (Black)
HARDDRIVES = (3) Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache Internal Desktop Hard Drive Bulk/OEM - WD1002FAEX
POWERSUPPLY = Corsair Professional Series Gold 850-Watt 80 Plus Gold Certified High-Performance Power Supply - CMPSU-850AX
CASE = Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 ATX Full Tower Gaming Computer Case (it was a challenge to get H100 cooler in this case...had to remove one top FAN)
UPS =CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD Intelligent LCD 1500VA 900W with AVR Tower UPS

I use (2) Steinberg MR816CSX interfaces. That PCIe Firewire card works flawlessly with that interface.

I am only slightly overclocking to around 3900 mHz with Ram at 1366. Using DPCLAT tool to measure DPC...OC drops the DPC rating down to about 25-35 from about 45-55 without overclocking. Interestingly, when I OC at 4500, the DPC rating increases to around 55-60. Temp hovers about 35 degrees C all the time.

I run Waves Mercury along with Cubase 64bit. I can load up alot more pluggins that I could with my i7 920/Asus rig.

ABout the onboard RAID...I tried RAID 0 for the OS partition and it had the DPC rating about 60-70. It is not faster than using the sata 6 drives in single format. I ended up disabling the Marvell controller. Kept getting tangled up on the boot partition. Prob just me, but I didnt need the aggravation. I had another 1TB drive, so I have it loaded with (4) 1TB sata 6 drives. I dont split out samples, I run them on the OS drive, but tracking is on its own drive. So far very responsive.

As for the case, the H100 cooler was a bit of a fustration (might suggest the H80 would be easier with that case), but it works great the way I have it installed. I dont care about noise so much from the fans, because I have my computer outside of my control room/studio. But, there are alot of fans spinning in that case. I would not want it sitting next to me

Whole rig cost me about $2,350 on Amazon.

Regarding Windows 8...I have to say all my software installed and ran fine. I only installed it to see if I liked it...I do not. I dislike the new Windows GUI. I blasted it back to WIndows 7 64 Ult for now. I dont need the frustration of the new GUI learning curve, and new OS stability stuff to deal with. But, for the record, Waves 64 Mercury and Cubase 6.5 64bit, Steinberg MR816csx, all worked flawlessly on Windows 8.

I am happy i spent the coin and time to upgrade.

[CoolColJ]

You can replace Metro in Windows 8 with the open source Classic Shell Program, makes it like all the older Windows with the start menu
But fully configurable

I was hating Windows 8, but now with Classic Shell, I quite like it, and it feels snappier than Windows 7

[Synetos]

Agreed...and I plan to run it on my regular desktop to get past the learning curve for the GUI, but for my DAW I dont want to be an early adopter. I mostly installed it just to see if the stuff worked and what my first impression of it was. Not nearly as "flashy" to me as Win7. It seems too boring and 2 dimensional...if that makes sense. I dont want all my devices integrated, phone, etc. I have an IPAD, i dont need another look alike device. So as a long time Microsoft guy, I am a bit disappointed...but like all things I will adapt and get use to it over time...or maybe I will switch to MAC.

[BassDuck]

I've got a Sabertooth X79 3930K overclocked to 4.7, 16GB of Gskill 1600Mhz Cl 9 Ram. H100, Corsair Force 3 GT 90 GB SSD, 4 various sized barracuda 7200 RPM drives. Gforce GTX 280, and a OCZ 650 watt power supply.

Runs great, handled audio like a beast, I run seriously intensive sessions at 92KHZ with a 64 buffer. the SSD is nice and fast.

I plan on changing my ram though, the heat spreaders come unstuck, and some times cause my system to crash due to the High overclocking increasing the operating temp of the ram, it was cheap anyway lol. I'm just gonna grab something with heat spreaders that are properly attached.

Here's a pic.

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...44051017_o.jpg

[alexlotta]

ok bassduck so you have not a stable config .Ram iether for temp or also for type of chips,

*those are g.skill that you would NOT recommend i guess =Vengeance High profile they look,and the fact that those are red is purely cosmetic if i recall correctly .
Or are you overclocking them beyond 1600 specs?
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From the picture i see that at least ther liquid h80/100 gives room for high profile ramms ,
that's cool .pity you cant work out those taller dimm with air coolers ,i would prefer myself,expecially since i did read fans on H100/h80 are quite noisy (dunno about intel water cooler)
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[BassDuck]

It'll run for days, but when I load it hard for a long time the ram kicks it, the problem is specifically 2 sticks where the spreaders pop off completely they're just held on with some double sided thermal tape LOL, I had them on the left side by the power delivery area and it gave me a few headaches, but once I swapped them around it seems to be fine I've never overclocked the ram, definately gonna grab some corsair vengance or dominator. That's one of the downfalls of the H100 is there's no airflow over the ram area so it does get pretty hot by the VRM. The fans can get a bit noisy, but I have an Antec P280 that is pretty good about killing the sound, and I have it hidden away under a desk with a sound barrier around it so it doesn't bother me much.

[picker7845]

I found gearslutz by chance through a recent google search just two days ago, and joined. I found this thread particularly interesting because I am in the midst of a 2011 build myself at this time. Thought I would chime in because so far all the builds I have seen were with the 3930k processor. I thought my build might be interesting to some people as I will be starting off with its baby brother 3820 in my system.

So far I have installed the Sabertooth X79 into my Coolermaster full sized HAF 912 case. (The big one with the three 240mm fans). I had to remove the top 240 fan to make room for the H100 radiator. I will be wiping a fairly new1.5TB Seagate Barracuda to use somewhere in the system (although I havent decided its purpose yet)

The rest of my parts are in the mail and on the way. They are:

850 Watt Modular PSU (80 Silver)
32GB of Corsair Vengence 1866 (full size, not low profile)
ASUS GT520 Video Card
SATA Blue Ray Drive
Intell 250GB SSD

I will be interfacing through a PCI Delta 1010 for a while until the near future when I will upgrade to a higher end peice (likely the RME babyface ~ not sure yet.)

Ill be using this machine as a Cubase songwriting workstation with heavy use of multisampled instruments as well as insert effects, plugins, and synths. I will also be experimenting with its use as a slave unit running Vienna Ensemble through gigabit LAN.

Just thought anyone considering the 3820 might find this build usefull. Ill keeep you posted.

Im curious if anyone has used the SSD caching option on these X79 motherboards. Would this feature be useful for our type of use, or is it best not to use it? Also, I wonder how much differently it works compared to traditional caching? Does anyone know?

Jody

[Yutaka]

Originally Posted by BassDuck

I plan on changing my ram though, the heat spreaders come unstuck, and some times cause my system to crash due to the High overclocking increasing the operating temp of the ram, it was cheap anyway lol. I'm just gonna grab something with heat spreaders that are properly attached.

Have you found a benefit of OC'ing RAM? I've run the Ballistix @ 1600 MHz for a year, but ended up going back to 1333 MHz when I upgraded to 32 GB recently. I don't see any difference in performance as far as DAW usage goes. Since the RAM runs cooler and is more stable at 1.5v & 1333MHz, I'll keep mine that way.

[picker7845]

Originally Posted by picker7845

I will be interfacing through a PCI Delta 1010 for a while until the near future when I will upgrade to a higher end peice (likely the RME babyface ~ not sure yet.)

The M-audio Delta 1010 is working flawlessly on the single PCI slot of my Sabertooth x79. Im very pleased with my daws performance so far as a multisamples based music writing workstation. No pops, clicks, or studders with Cubase 6.5 64 bit. Im excited about fully populating my dimms so I can retire the use of DFD completely

[Sensorychaos]

Originally Posted by picker7845

Im curious if anyone has used the SSD caching option on these X79 motherboards. Would this feature be useful for our type of use, or is it best not to use it? Also, I wonder how much differently it works compared to traditional caching? Does anyone know?

Jody

As i have the p9x79 model i can't tell because this function is only available in the pro and deluxe...

[PicardoCol]

Hi Guys,

Just spotted this thread after Googling a problem I've been having and thought I'd post my experience as a warning/plea for help...

The basic kit:

Asus P9X79, Latest BIOS
3930K - currently @ 3.2GHz
Corsair 32GB XMS 1600MHz CL11
Asus PCI-E N EN210 SILENT Graphics

I have a TC Electronics Powercore PCI Mark II - a legacy PCI card - which works fine in my old setup, but in the P9X79 only shows up in Device Manager as "Intelligent I/O (I2O) Controller". I have installed the latest drivers and my FireWire Powercore Compact works fine with them. The same PCI slot works OK with my Motu PCI424 and PCI FireWire card.

Asus couldn't help and just said RMA the board - I'm not convinced the board is faulty as two other cards work fine in the PCI slot. My only response from TC Electronic so far is a standard "reinstall latest drivers" reply.

Has anyone out there tried the Powercore PCI Mark II in the P9X79 yet? Any thoughts as to the problem?

Regards,

Colin

[Goddard]

Colin, not using a Poco PCI, but it might be a resource sharing issue (iow, a "not sharing nicely" issue) between your nVidia graphics card and your Poco PCI card, as both have to share the same assigned IRQ, and afaik there is no way to change the IRQ assignments for those slots, and there is only the one PCI slot and also, the primary graphics card has to be in the first PCIe x16 slot.

Some nVidia cards have problems sharing resources with some PCI cards like UAD PCI (although it's not clear whether this is due to the hardware or drivers), so maybe try an ATI/AMD graphics card to see if that works.

The 1st PCIe x1 slot doesn't share an IRQ with the PCI slot, and there are a few PCIe x1 graphics cards available, so that might be another option to try.

[PicardoCol]

Thanks for replying, Goddard, however, I have just found the solution...

The driver was simply not being installed because Win 7 didn't "trust" it. No warnings - nothing - you are just left with a non-functioning card.

TC Electronics did say to install the driver as "Administrator" which may or may not solve the problem, but I couldn't work out how to install an .msi as Administrator. So, from Device Manager I selected "Update Driver Software", "Browse My Computer...", "Let me pick...", select "PowerCore/PCI" from the list, "Next", then you get a warning, click "Yes" and you're away...

So the good news is, I can safely say the PowerCore PCI MK II is compatible with the P9X79.

Hope this helps someone...

[dcs]

update:

My x79 build is still going great. have now overclocked to 4.2. upgraded my os drive to SSD (Crucial 128) and added another SSD (Crucial 128) for samples.

I can't make this machine break a sweat, but I will say that the SSD drives are the biggest addition.

I now want all SSD drives.





Updated build.

Asus p9x79 WS Motherboard
Core i7 3930k (mild overclock to 4.2)
Noctua Nh-d14 2011 cpu cooler (idle temp at 31c)
Windows 7 x64 Home
16 gb Gskill rip Jaws ram
Siig PCIE TI firewire card
Corsair HX 650w power supply
Cubase 6.5.4 x64
Gigabyte radeon 5450 fanless graphics card
Steinberg mr816 (into Siig firewire card)

[schmuck]

Originally Posted by PicardoCol

Thanks for replying, Goddard, however, I have just found the solution...

The driver was simply not being installed because Win 7 didn't "trust" it. No warnings - nothing - you are just left with a non-functioning card.

TC Electronics did say to install the driver as "Administrator" which may or may not solve the problem, but I couldn't work out how to install an .msi as Administrator. So, from Device Manager I selected "Update Driver Software", "Browse My Computer...", "Let me pick...", select "PowerCore/PCI" from the list, "Next", then you get a warning, click "Yes" and you're away...

So the good news is, I can safely say the PowerCore PCI MK II is compatible with the P9X79.

Hope this helps someone...

Thank you very much, it just helped me with my PCIe powercore card, where I had the same issue but with manual install from "TC Electronic" I could choose the express card.

[soundslikejoe]

Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 = AVOID AT ALL COSTS

This mobo is hardware revision 1.0 and the BIOS is on 3rd release. My experience has been a nightmare and I still fear an RMA. I've been working on this build for a solid week and am not stable.

This board is very temperamental with RAM. Originally loaded with Mushkin 32GB (4x8GB) Quad kit.... the board would not run stable even at 1066. Replaced with old Mushkin Silverline 1066 (2x4GB) and am able to run while waiting on GSkill kit to arrive. Even now I still suspect the memory is causing issues.

Also had a problem with my power supply and RMA'd it. While swapping the PSU, I noticed the Northbridge heatsink was wobbling. The screws weren't very tight. Tightened it down, installed new PSU, and am running.... but just OK. Forget OC on this board. The "blog reviewers" are paid. You'll see tons of user complaints if you did deep into the forums.

Do not purchase this board.

[soundslikejoe]

To be fair: GSkill 32GB Quad Kit arrived today and installed. X79-UP4 is running well on this set of sticks. Still stand by my original statement though.... This board needs hardware revision before I'd buy another.

[SRDigital]

intel dx79sr
i7 3930k
16gb patriot viper @ 1866
intel ssd
2x 500gb in raid 0
motu 24io with pcie-424
m-audio delta 1010lt

pro tools 10 works great, mostly use cubase 7.


rock solid, stupid fast. with a corsair h60 closed loop, can't get it over 45c when doing 100+ track 96k with heavy processing (60-80% cpu on all 12 cores)

i did, however, leave turbo, speetstep etc. on, but i changed the max turbo multiplier to 32 under all loads, basically killing the turbo overclock. i found this to give me complete consistency in the performance of my rig. i've even successfully run pro tools and cubase in parallel, outputting to the 24io via cubase, and then using the busses on my console sent 1-8 into protools via delta 1010lt at 64 samples.

[Polarity69]

Originally Posted by Sensorychaos

SLL...
I maybe could install an old pci creamware card in it and see how it reacts...

yes, please! can you try if you have time your pci pulsar/scope card?
(you will need scope 5.0 at least to make it work in Windows7...)
I'm looking for new modern mobos where to transfer my actual Creamware cards... and know about PCIe bridge to legacy PCI bandwith problems.

all the best

[goalith]

First time putting a computer together any thoughts or suggestions?

Case-Corsair Obsidian Series 550D
Mobo-ASUS P9X79 PRO
Cpu-i7 3930k
Cpu Cooler-Noctua NH-C14 CPU cooler
Memory-G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600
SSD/HDD-kingston hyper x 240gb/westerndigital 1tb
Power-SeaSonic X750 Gold 750W