EVGA X99 Motherboards and G.Skill Memory Offer Top Compatibility

[btarunr]

EVGA is proud to announce that the EVGA X99 motherboard lineup is one of two motherboard manufacturers that offers full compatibility for high performance G.Skill memory of 3000MHz and above. EVGA was able to fine tune the memory performance, XMP support and compatibility to offer enthusiasts full support for the fastest DDR4 memory available today.

Extreme overclocker Vince "K|NPG|N" Lucido, who continues to achieve 3DMark World Records using EVGA components, had this to say about EVGA X99 motherboard support for G.Skill's 3000MHz+ memory. "The EVGA motherboard and BIOS R&D teams wanted to prove they could make a motherboard that can flawlessly run the fastest memory available on the market today, and they did exactly that."



"G.SKILL is excited that EVGA, one of the finest motherboard manufacturers in the world, is bringing further support and compatibility with our top tier of DDR4 memory available on the market today. The fine tuning of EVGA X99 motherboards opens up new options for gamers and overclockers alike to achieve the extreme performance through G.SKILL DDR4 3000MHz+ memory kits," commented Frank Hung, Product Marketing of G.SKILL.

The EVGA X99 motherboard was designed from the ground up to satisfy the needs of the hardcore enthusiast with stunning features and overclocking support. These motherboards also feature EVGA's new GUI BIOS that focuses on the best overclocking support, functionality, and are straight and to the point, the way a modern BIOS should be.

Learn more about the EVGA X99 motherboards here.

Learn more about G.Skill DDR4 memory here.

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[Jorge]

Nice but just worthless marketing hype at this point in time as 1600 MHz. DDR3 is not a discrete desktop PC bottleneck as extensive testing with real applications documents. Of course if you don't technically know any better you could actually be misled into thinking there was some tangible system performance benefit to buying over-priced DRAM. LOL

BTW, any competent mobo and RAM maker should be able to deliver DDR3/DDR4 compliant products that run the RAM at all practical frequencies. If not, then you're in the wrong Bidness.

 

[Easo]

Nice but just worthless marketing hype at this point in time as 1600 MHz. DDR3 is not a discrete desktop PC bottleneck as extensive testing with real applications documents. Of course if you don't technically know any better you could actually be misled into thinking there was some tangible system performance benefit to buying over-priced DRAM. LOL

BTW, any competent mobo and RAM maker should be able to deliver DDR3/DDR4 compliant products that run the RAM at all practical frequencies. If not, then you're in the wrong Bidness.

Do you get paid to do this?

 

[vega22]

Nice but just worthless marketing hype at this point in time as 1600 MHz. DDR3 is not a discrete desktop PC bottleneck as extensive testing with real applications documents. Of course if you don't technically know any better you could actually be misled into thinking there was some tangible system performance benefit to buying over-priced DRAM. LOL

yes and global warming was really a con!

 

[荷兰大母猪]

I am using 5960x and x99 clf with crucial 2133c15 memory. Really nice and I am waiting 4000+MHz ddr4 memory. I will buy that time, for lower price and higher performance

 

[buildzoid]

Unfortunately the EVGA X99 boards score lower than any other X99 board in benchmarks. Though a few BIOS tweaks might fix that

 

[EarthDog]

Funny.. as the MSI board I had and the ASRock I have, both NEUTERED the Kingston 3K ram I had and the EVGA brought it to life (performance where it should be)....

 

[Hood]

Nice but just worthless marketing hype at this point in time as 1600 MHz. DDR3 is not a discrete desktop PC bottleneck as extensive testing with real applications documents. Of course if you don't technically know any better you could actually be misled into thinking there was some tangible system performance benefit to buying over-priced DRAM. LOL

BTW, any competent mobo and RAM maker should be able to deliver DDR3/DDR4 compliant products that run the RAM at all practical frequencies. If not, then you're in the wrong Bidness.

Jorge, we can always count on you to make disparaging comments every time a fast RAM kit is reviewed, always implying your vast technical superiority for not "wasting" money on any RAM faster than 1600 MHz - but how would you know either way? As I recall, (before you deleted your system specs), you're running a P4 system with DDR2, or some such ancient hardware. So why don't you show your system specs anymore, Jorge? Too busy reading all those documents about "extensive testing with real applications" no doubt. If nothing else you are consistent...

 

[EarthDog]

You can also always expect him not to reply after he posts. He uses TPU like his personal blog, LOL.

If I was the staff here, I would mute the kid.

 

[Steven B]

Funny.. as the MSI board I had and the ASRock I have, both NEUTERED the Kingston 3K ram I had and the EVGA brought it to life (performance where it should be)....

X99 OC Formula, X99 Gaming G1, X99 SoC Force all doing fine with G.Skill 3200MHz memory, all can run it at 3200MHz and SOC Force and OC Formula can OC it, the Gaming G1 boots 32x easily but can't OC it very far (not much training done). I have an MSI X99S MPower but I haven't tried it yet.

 

[EarthDog]

Perhaps I wasn't clear... it can RUN IT just fine, however its bandwidth (R/W/Copy in AIDA64 and Maxxmem) were woefully low on those boards (through several BIOS' and fresh OS/driver install).

 

[buildzoid]

Perhaps I wasn't clear... it can RUN IT just fine, however its bandwidth (R/W/Copy in AIDA64 and Maxxmem) were woefully low on those boards (through several BIOS' and fresh OS/driver install).

Do you have any gigabyte and ASUS boards that did the same or are those ok.

 

[cadaveca]

Do you have any gigabyte and ASUS boards that did the same or are those ok.

ASUS was better, gigabyte was not, but has improved as well. EVGA clocked well, but performance was under par. This is actually quite the accomplishment for EVGA, IMHO.

Notice a lack of X99 reviews from me? I got the boards... and have been busy in school, and BIOSes needed significant improvements. EVGA has proven with their boards that my thoughts on this, and my choice to hold off posting reviews were quite accurate.


Today I had my last final...expect a flood of X99 reviews from me starting next week.

 

[Steven B]

Part of the issue is native Intel support for dividers over 26.66x is non existent.

Everything above 26.66x has to be tuned in manually by the BIOS guys of each manufacturer, and that can take a lot of time, and why a lot aren't reaching the 32x divider, and instead use 24x1.25

However dividers to 40x are available, pointing to future DDR4 products. Maybe or maybe not on Haswell-E considering the mem controller is a souped up DDR3 controller.

 

[EarthDog]

Do you have any gigabyte and ASUS boards that did the same or are those ok.

My partner in crime reviewed the ASUS line and Gigabyte has given us a cold shoulder recently for some unknown reason. The ASUS boards were reviewed on the Octo Intel so the results with my hex, because AIDA memory bandwidth tests are thread dependent, one cannot compare them.

I will be interested to see what Dave comes up with on his though...assuming he has the hex core anyway. I think we bled our well dry so I am moving that to daily driver duties while the 4930K/X79 ROG system gets sold.

 

[cadaveca]

I have the mATX EVGA (I asked for that one specifically), and I tested already on older BIOS. I'll download the newer one and see what's what. As far as I am aware of though, they were pretty good already (I bugged them about BIOS and my G.Skill 3000 MHz kit), the only downside to OC was an inability to match full OC compared to ASUS with their OC socket.