Unless you have a specific need out of an LGA2011 board like more PCIe lanes, or 8 DIMM slots, or something similar, there is little to gain from a LGA2011 setup compared to what you already had. This is even more so if you overclock. X79 chipset motherboards have there own peculiarities such as the SATA ports not having as good as performance as the socket 1155 p67-z77 counterparts. Uses eRST e="enterprise" drivers instead of standard RST and does not perform as well with fast SSD's.
That being said, I am on a lightly overclocked Asus P9X79 Pro with 32Gb RAM, i7-3960X, LSI 9265 8i running RAID0 on four 256GB SSDs (so i get around the SATA port performance issues), and a 6970 video card. I only overclock it lightly because the huge ass 3960X is a bitch to keep cool (unless I want airplane takeoff sound from my fans). It's faster than hell if you are doing something that takes advantage of the extra cores, quad channel memory, and caching drive controller bandwidth, but for 99.9% of everything else, my other highly overclocked 2600K on a z68 MB, 16GB RAM, Single 128GB SSD drive, and Nvidia GTX 480 performs just as good (even better with games and swapping the 6970 to it).
As to to the sound, the P9X79 Pro uses the Realtek ALC898 chip (same as socket 2011 Rampage MB) which is SIGNIFICANTLY better than some other Realtek sound chips on other motherboards (ALC892, ALC887). Here's basic specs of this chip:
Output Resolution (higher is better): 24bit
Max Sample Rate (higher is better): 192KHz
SNR (higher is better): 110 DB
Input: 24-Bit, 192KHz, 104dB
It sounds VERY good. The 110DB SNR is not matched by many sound cards and none of them cheap.
The only issue I've run into with this P9X79 Pro motherboard is that updating to the latest BIOS prevent me from booting from my LSI RAID. Asus tech support is staffed by incompetent idiots so don't expect any help from them for anything more technical than how to plug in the power cord.
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