I'd like there to be a Z97 equivalent of that. I don't know about the noise made by those fans. I know the Z77 Sabertooth had a pretty crazy network of heatpipes and heatsinks under the thermal armour and there were two fans cooling the assembly, but people complained about an exceptionally high-pitched and whiny noise.

ASUS's Maximus Formula boards have a built-in VRM waterblock. I can't use the one on my current board sadly, because I was greedy and took a 120mm Radiator on top of the 360mm. In the future, however, I would like to use the VRM block, and I might add a chipset block if I can figure out what fits and what doesn't.

A lot of X79 boards have fans. I guess they get hotter.

Suggestion for a good GPU hosting motherboard?
 

Sorry for this tangent, but clearly those participating in this thread know far more than I do on this topic...

In a couple of months I'm planning on putting together a new workstation for myself. Can anyone recommend a good motherboard which can host at least 4 GPUs (two are only single-slot, to drive three UHD monitors, the other two are double-slot) and up to 64 GBs of RAM (8 * 8GB)?

Looking around on newegg, I found the [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131802"]ASUS Rampage IV Extreme LGA 2011 Intel X79[/URL] might be a good choice, but I don't really know how good ASUS products are.

Oh, and I'll probably go for a i7-4770 or i7-4470K, unless anyone can suggest a better choice.

Thoughts and/or suggestions?

[QUOTE=chalsall;372901]Sorry for this tangent, but clearly those participating in this thread know far more than I do on this topic...

In a couple of months I'm planning on putting together a new workstation for myself. Can anyone recommend a good motherboard which can host at least 4 GPUs (two are only single-slot, to drive three UHD monitors, the other two are double-slot) and up to 64 GBs of RAM (8 * 8GB)?

Looking around on newegg, I found the [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131802"]ASUS Rampage IV Extreme LGA 2011 Intel X79[/URL] might be a good choice, but I don't really know how good ASUS products are.

Oh, and I'll probably go for a i7-4770 or i7-4470K, unless anyone can suggest a better choice.

Thoughts and/or suggestions?[/QUOTE]

The CPU and motherboard is incompatible, the CPU is LGA1150 and the MB is LGA2011.
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Not sure what you mean for the CPU... I'm assuming 4770K? If Prime95 is the only/main think you do, a 4670K is a lot cheaper for exactly the same performance.[/strike]

Nevermind, you said 64GB ram... which means you have to get LGA2011.. along with a [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007671%20600217725&IsNodeId=1&name=LGA%202011"]LGA2011 CPU.[/URL]

EDIT: Hey, who put that avatar there? LOL

EDIT2: [URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/x79-extreme4-dx79to-p9x79-benchmark,3138.html"]Six $200-$260 LGA 2011 Motherboards, Reviewed[/URL]
[URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/p9x79-deluxe-g1-assassin2-x79-ud5-extreme9,3086.html"]Ultimate X79? Five $320+ LGA 2011 Motherboards, Reviewed[/URL]

[QUOTE=kracker;372903]Nevermind, you said 64GB ram... which means you have to get LGA2011.. along with a [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007671%20600217725&IsNodeId=1&name=LGA%202011"]LGA2011 CPU.[/URL][/QUOTE]

Thanks for your help. Clearly it's been a LONG time since I built a machine myself...

Anyone have any advise as to any other good LGA2011 MBs which will support four GPUs (again, only two are double-slot)? The review kracker pointed me to (thanks!) only has one board so able, but it's by a manufacturer I've never heard of before -- ECS.

The ASUS looks good (although pricey). The EVGA X79 Dark also looks quite nice (although also quite pricey, and currently out-of-stock).

Edit: Oh, and with regards to what this machine will be used for... Yes, Prime95 (of course), but also very large datasets for my computer vision / photogrammetry work. This is the reason for the desire for 64GB of RAM, and quad channel DDR3.

I hear ASUS is quite good, though I can personally vouch for ASrock, having 5.

You could try the ASUS P9X79 WS.

There's this rare class too -
[URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131817"]ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS Dual LGA 2011[/URL]

[QUOTE=Batalov;372909]There's this rare class too -
[URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131817"]ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS Dual LGA 2011[/URL][/QUOTE]

Oh yeah baby, and two of [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116925"]these[/URL]... wooohoo :razz:

[url]http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128562[/url]

I just did a search on newegg. For 64 GB of RAM, you are necessarily restricted to the X79 chipset (for now) which means the LGA 2011 Socket. Filtering all boards for anything with 4, 5, 6 or 7 PCI-E 3.0 slots leaves a bunch, and this is the second cheapest one, with 62 reviews for an average of 4/5

4 GPU slots, 8 RAM module slots, only $260. Should be good!

Alternatively, you can try to wait for X99, which will give you juicy quad-channel RAM and a whole bunch of other goodies.

[QUOTE=TheMawn;372914]4 GPU slots, 8 RAM module slots, only $260. Should be good![/QUOTE]

Thanks VERY much. That board looks like it will do nicely.

I'm so new at this (or, perhaps, so stupid) that I completely missed the "Narrow your Choices" option!