X99 has come to miniITX -- yes, you read that correctly

If I had to buy my first X99 mobo again, I would choose the Asus X99-E WS ("Workstation"). Or Gigabyte X99 SOC Champ. Or, an "out of band" server-grade mobo which surprisingly benches just as well as the enthusiast mobos, the SuperMicro C7X99-OCE.

Combining my two 4x8GB DDR4-3000 memory kits was a bit of an issue with an i7-5960X, could underclock/overclock the CPU or the RAM independently, but unable to run both together at stock speeds. A complete non-issue with my E5-1680-3, where everything "just works".

I've yet to see anyone report lower than a 4.3GHz overclock with any Haswell-E part - aside from those who have issues with badly mismatched memory kits, wimpy (<140W TDP) CPU coolers, or outdated/misconfigured firmware.

I still don't really see the attraction of X99 miniITX, limited by form factor to a single GPU slot and nothing else. X99 microATX is a little better, at least you can still pack x16/x16 into it, along with another slot or two dedicated to storage.

The other job is in Salt Lake City. I currently live in Philadelphia. It's a 20% raise from my current pay, but with cost of living adjustment it's more like a 66% raise. So . . . yeah.

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Originally Posted by Konrad

I still don't really see the attraction of X99 miniITX, limited by form factor to a single GPU slot and nothing else. X99 microATX is a little better, at least you can still pack x16/x16 into it, along with another slot or two dedicated to storage.

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Fair enough; to each their own. For myself, my criteria follow along these lines: What I must run locally, I want to run on as small and quiet a system as possible. Everything else, it matters not where it runs, only that it can access the resources it needs.

Or, to put it another way.

Nice Job Opportunity!