Mobo for new build?

[Rilla927]

Hello gang,

Wow! Is this place different. I haven't been here in a while. I'm looking to build a new system in the next month or two probably with i7-4930K Ivy Bridge-E 3.4GHz LGA 2011.
I have spent some time over at Newegg reading reviews and they all suck in reality. Is it the people writing these reviews or are these boards that bad?

I looked at Asus, Gigabyte (even went to their site to see what they had and then checked else where), Evga and their seems to be many problematic boards DOA and/or with bios, usb, memory issues. I mean the reviews were 50/50. I just want a nice dependable board. I would prefer one with a usable PCI slot for a additional sound card. I'm not fond of "Creative" and that's what you will get if it's bundled. I seen some with the wi-fi and double lan I liked, but it seems like you're very lucky if you can get a board that just works; let alone with the additional features you like. Price isn't a deal breaker! I just want something that isn't plagued.

If there are some other boards you know of that I haven't mentioned, please enlighten me. It's always good to get others input for knowledge. There was a odd name board that a very small percentage of people would tackle and use because they were difficult and I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. I would know it if I seen it. They were good boards. Their flagship colors were the two tone green.

The case I will be using is a Corsair Obsidian 550D.

Thanks to everyone!

[graphic harbour]

hi, I understand what your saying and yeah it does seem that everyone has a problem of some sort.......
I used to only get gigabyte boards until i had a bit of misfortune with the last one (x79 ud7) I think, hmm the
vrm area sort of burnt out lol, smoke ..... anyway old news, I have since then gone with asus R.O.G using
a ASUS Rampage IV Formula LGA 2011, it did take me a while to get it working the well since i put the 4930k
cpu in it with tweaking and latest bios, it is now working fine, with win 8.1 and uefi bios, it boots very quickly
I have actually just purchased the new x79 asus black edition and have decided to do a complete new build
perhaps over say 3 to 6 month project........ I hope my post has helped you some how, i think asus makes good boards
and have seen allot of bios releases, which i think is good, shows that there still working on the boards, even 1 or 2 years
later, great work Asus I use newegg for reviews too since we can't buy from there here in Australia, but these days
I just look at the percentages and do allot of research, otherwise we wouldn't buy anything lol.....
good luck

[Rilla927]

Greetings Graphic!

Yes, you're right! These misfortunes do happen...sorry to hear that about your board. I think you made a good choice with the Black Edition. After reviewing literally every board at the Asus site; I said if I were to get one out of all their boards, it would be this one. I like this board, regardless if it has Creative...it has everything I am looking for except one thing and that's not a deal breaker. At least I would have sound either way. I have a Asus now, but it's lunched thanks to my husband. After I build mine, I'm building him one so he never touches mine again.

I thought I had read more than once you can update the bios with no OS installed. I always done it after everything was installed but if this is true, I think it's a much better idea to do it right off the bat when you get the board before all the drivers etc. are installed.

I agree with you on the reviews. If I were to go by these I would never buy anything. I'm going to buy two boards and test both out so I can have a back up when the first punches out. This is the second time I have ended up in a predicament where my processor is 2 to 3 years old and the selection of boards are even worse for older CPU's, so I said my as well update everything and be done with it...but with a back up board sitting in place so there is no down time and aggravation.