As I understand it, Mike. Broadwell E was supposed to be about a 7- 8% improvement over our CPUs. To me, not nearly enough to make a change. But, Skylake X is supposed to be something like a 25% improvement over Broadwell in single threaded applications and 10% better in everything else. If that ends up being true, it would mean around an 18% improvement for us. That's pretty significant to me.
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Came really close to buying this board memorial day sells but the rebate card expired on the 4th so I bailed to replace my 8.. year old acer board finally,
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII EXTREMEs USB 3.1 USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard - Newegg.com
Looks like it was extended though to 6-30-17
With the new skylake x series chips it could get interesting :)
Steve have any thoughts on this board ?
Seems like a good deal but I do hate having it hang around too long before installing a cpu seeing defective boards have been known to happen :/
Features wise I've always leaned to better to have them and not use them rather than want them and not have them :)
That is Asus top of the line board and has more features on it than probably any board. I had the Z77 version of that board. First it is expensive for an EOL board. If you read the reviews, they are not good. It seems that about 50% of the boards have issues. I would never buy another board from Newegg. They like to say it doesn't work because you damaged it. Been there, done that. Ended up having to email the Newegg CEO in Taiwan. I still got screwed out of money. I had a UPS Tracking number and a delivery confirmation and they still said they never received it and they didn't care what UPS said. That was on a CPU. The board was shipped with a bent CPU pin. They said I did it even though I never put a CPU in the socket and called them less than 30 minutes after it was delivered. I only buy from Amazon now. They have the best CS in the business as long as it is sold and shipped by Amazon.
Side tracking for a moment, this isn't the first time I've heard of stories like this about Newegg an is one reason I never give them serious consideration when purchasing parts. For me, it's either Amazon, or more recently, B&H Photo out of New York. Don't let photo fool you, as they also deal in PC parts and their prices are pretty competitive or even cheaper.
All that said, I did buy my Sapphire R9 Fury from them and had to RMA it for an issue. No problem there other than I thought the RMA process was a little slow. And by the time I got my tracking number the item was already delivered.
But yeah, I'm staying away from Newegg where possible.
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Ouch well newegg is out pretty much why I didn't want it hanging around without a cpu they usually have a 30 day swap out policies which translated is just sending you another someone else sent back probably :/
I did get my sabertooth from amazon and I agree they have great cs :)
Hard to believe a 170 is eol
Mike, I didn't look close enough, I thought it was an X99. But, I am reasonably sure the 170 is EOL. They have already come out with the 270 and now the x299, so yea, I am sure the 170 is EOL.Hi,
Ouch well newegg is out pretty much why I didn't want it hanging around without a cpu they usually have a 30 day swap out policies which translated is just sending you another someone else sent back probably :/
I did get my sabertooth from amazon and I agree they have great cs :)
Hard to believe a 170 is eol
I have had friends have problems with NewEgg in the past on returns. I've been fortunate in that everything I have ever ordered from them has always worked. I've bought the majority of my hardware over the years from them. Amazon has been fantastic on returns and such over the years, so it would be hard to beat them.
