Got this on the January sale for 40% off. Resulted in my retiring my Sandy Lake E 3930k build and upgrading to Broadwell E. I am running a 6800k overclocked to 4.2 ghz at 1.4v with custom EKWB water cooling loops. 64 GB GSkill RAM running at DDR4 3400 cas 15. I have a poor chip it seems. I can push it to 4.4 ghz at 1.5v but temps hit over 90C quickly on OCCT or Prime95 even with a massive EKWB 360 60 mm radiator. The Broadwell E chips are poor overclockers unlike the Sandy Lake E chips. I am upgrading to 960 mm of radiator space on my loop and will retry the 1.4 ghz-1.5 ghz push. However this is a true manifest for the board that it can support high voltages and speeds, and with 64 GB of memory also overclocked to high speeds. I read the Broadwell E has very good Integrated Memory Controller performance. This is an awesome board and very lucky to have snagged it at $330. Running a Samsung 960 Pro nvme ssd. The LED lights look really awesome. Killer 1535 wifi connects at full 867 Mbps speeds. Bluetooth works as expected. Numerous BIOS options to overclock. I stay way from the auto overclock options, prefer manually fine tuning my overclocks. MSI software comes with a Ramdisk creation option. The MSI dragon on the south bridge looks very cool, I have paired this with a MSI GTX 1080 EK water-cooled GPU and the dragons look nice. If using high memory capacities increase the memory controller voltage. With GSkill 64 GB DDR4 3200 CL4 kits you have headroom up to 1.5v per GSkil to overclock or lower timings.
I will upgrade to the 6950X once prices are realistic or when the next gen chips come out and these come out on eBay for half of what they cost new. Will be a nice complement to this high end board (of course the newest chip will be the next to to drool at).
Summary: Buy this, you will not regret.
| Processor | core_i7 |
|---|---|
| Memory Speed | 2133 MHz |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
