Asus P9X79-E WS vs Asus Rampage 4 Extreme

[thatlucidguy]

I'm looking at choosing one of these motherboards and I know a bit about computers, but for the life of me I just cannot see why one is better than the other in this case. My primary use is video editing and I will likely not be overclocking, and if I do then I will only do so once I'm confident that I know what I'm doing. I went over to overclock.net and it was like another language.

I've went to the asus website and compared the two, I can't get a direct link since it's sort of coded into the window/frame etc, so I printed it to a PDF and uploaded it to dropbox.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38888068/Asus P9X79EWS vs Asus Rampage 4 Extreme.pdf

Alternatively you can click these links and select compare
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P9X79E_WS/
Motherboards - RAMPAGE IV EXTREME

Any insights?

 

[Vue]

Asus P9X79-E WS due to it being more expensive lol not but it does have more features like 7x pci and 10x sata and support for Tesla,Xeon Phi also has a better power design and is by reviewers the best workstation mobo. Linus built a video editing pc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhkJLF3oyI8 go have a look at that I didn't watch the video tho but you sir can . Any other opinions guys??

 

[thatlucidguy]

Exactly what I was thinking as well! Already seen that video, it actually helped me choose some components and understand why. Just thought I might be missing some things as I don't understand 100% of all the specs

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[Munk]

Purely from-my-armchair opinion. Get the P9X79-E WS of the two.
It doesn't have that southbridge fan (I personally hate it) and it has better onboard audio.
Only major factor (from the product comparison) is 4 USB 3.0 on the WS versus 8 on the M4E.
The M4E has a bunch of bells-and-whistles for overclocking that you won't use, hence it will gather dust/be wasted money.

Honestly, if overclocking is not one of your top 3 reasons for the 2011 chipset then the M4E is wasted money for you.
Again, purely an opinion.

EDIT: If your video editing is personal and not professional (meaning you don't get paid to do it) then a serious case can be made for going with 1150/1155 chipset board and CPU instead of 2011. Something like an i7 4770K will do great for personal video editing. If this is for work, go 2011.

 

[thatlucidguy]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the input, it helps.

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