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Finally, An Asus X99 Motherboard

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August 26, 2014 10:16:30 AM

This is Asus' X99 Deluxe, and while it might be lacking M.2, it does look pretty.

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August 26, 2014 10:33:17 AM

a very good looking motherboard ... looking forward for the Rampage V as it must be the top of the line Motherboard by ASUS . really i liked it .
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August 26, 2014 10:42:45 AM

Wow, that's a sexy board
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August 26, 2014 10:56:34 AM

what'd be nice is if you guys actually provided the source link... you know. like normal
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August 26, 2014 10:59:54 AM

There is a M.2 slot, it's next to the main ATX power connector. They made it perpendicular with the board, so it has to stand up when it's installed.
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August 26, 2014 11:04:09 AM

If only the ROG looked that good. The red on the rog is just too loud and is the only reason I have not bought one. Asus how about a ROG ULTRA with this color scheme
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August 26, 2014 11:04:12 AM

Looks amazing, nice white accents.
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August 26, 2014 11:06:53 AM

Oh and for a ROG ULTRA Saber tooth dust covers and chipset waterblock pre-installed not like that's needed anymore lol
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August 26, 2014 11:08:17 AM

Oh and for a ROG ULTRA Saber tooth dust covers and chipset waterblock pre-installed not like that's needed anymore lol
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August 26, 2014 11:11:47 AM

uhhhh......is that 12 usb ports in the picture there? Asus does not play around do they. Rampage should be interesting.
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August 26, 2014 11:15:15 AM

That's an impressive looking motherboard.
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August 26, 2014 11:31:42 AM

Nice...
But I'll wait for Cannonlake before building one of those.
#smellthesarcasm
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August 26, 2014 11:38:31 AM

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uhhhh......is that 12 usb ports in the picture there? Asus does not play around do they. Rampage should be interesting.

It's not really a big deal. My current motherboard has 10 USB slots but I use only 4.
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August 26, 2014 12:21:52 PM

I'll wait for the P9X99-E WS.
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August 26, 2014 12:42:24 PM

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what'd be nice is if you guys actually provided the source link... you know. like normal


It's up at the top of the piece, under the headline. Next to "source".
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August 26, 2014 3:43:23 PM

That slot is the M.2 slot. If you zoom in you can see the label under it. It says M.2x4. So, M.2 with 4 PCI express lanes.
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August 26, 2014 3:43:55 PM

That is a nice looking board. Reminds me of Galaxy's HOF cards, somewhat.
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August 26, 2014 4:08:48 PM

Stroking and drooling over computer parts... sheesh...
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August 26, 2014 7:40:29 PM

re M.2 slot:
The article says it looks like one, however also that it's not a good spot and I agree.

The problem is the main POWER CABLE is likely to push up against it once you put the motherboard in the case so damaging the M.2 SSD board is very likely.

Why they wouldn't just put it in the UPPER LEFT makes no sense to me.
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August 26, 2014 7:53:20 PM

From the manual
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August 26, 2014 7:53:37 PM

If this is the mobo then I must say it is beautiful. Asus should follow the approach of building ATX Power connector, USB headers in right-angle on the mobo as EVGA has started recently. This would make cable management rather very easy. Also, will this board support Thunderbolt needs to be seen!
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August 26, 2014 8:17:21 PM

I'm just not sold on the whole M.2 size, fittings and locations. I don't see this as making a huge inroad. The newer SATA Express which offers 40% speed BUT requires 300% more connection space - I'm not too sure about THIS interface, either, but at least their devices (IF THEY EXIST!!) appear to be fitting into drive-bays.

Not consuming motherboard acreage.

I get the feeling that both of these 'advances' are more babysteps and dillydallying instead of real progress.
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August 26, 2014 9:20:48 PM

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That slot is the M.2 slot. If you zoom in you can see the label under it. It says M.2x4. So, M.2 with 4 PCI express lanes.

It is without a doubt an m.2x4 slot. think about it, if you were designing this and had so much to fit on a limited space, wouldnt it make sense to reduce its footprint and make it a vertical slot?
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August 26, 2014 10:09:12 PM

OMG, just when I think I gave up on X99 I may have to reconsider - this board looks absolutely incredible and would fit perfectly with my black / white / blue color scheme. I just hope it's not an eATX board!
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August 27, 2014 2:25:07 AM

Sexiest motherboard I have seen after Rampage IV Black Edition and Asrock Z87 Extreme6.
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August 27, 2014 9:59:09 AM

"... and a staggering five PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots for expansion ..."

Hardly staggering; there are already numerous boards which have more.
As B4vB5 says, I'm more interested in the WS editions, which are likely
to have 6 or 7 slots.

Ian.

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August 28, 2014 7:58:11 AM

5 x16 slots? Can someone tell me how many lanes can actually be used at the same time? It's probably in any article on X99, but it slips my mind.
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August 28, 2014 8:43:21 AM

WyomingKnott said:
5 x16 slots? Can someone tell me how many lanes can actually be used at the same time? It's probably in any article on X99, but it slips my mind.


Number of lanes also depends on the CPU, Core i7 5820K only has 28 PCIe lanes, the other 2 has 40 PCIe lanes.
For the Core i7 5820K it's 1GPU at x16, 2 GPUs at x16/x8 and 3GPUs at X8/x8/x8, 3 GPUs makes that 24 lanes used. the last 4 can be used for the M.2x4 which uses 4 PCIe lanes.
But if a single card is installed that's x16, 28-16 = 12, if I plug in a PCIe x1 card, then what that means I only have 11 PCIe lanes left.
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August 28, 2014 10:44:22 AM

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5 x16 slots? Can someone tell me how many lanes can actually be used at the same time? It's probably in any article on X99, but it slips my mind.

Yeah. 40 lanes available.

The realistic configs with 2-slot video cards are:
1 video card : x16/-/-/-/-
2 video cards: X16/-/x16/-/-
3 video cards: x16/-/x16/-/x8

Similar to the X79 setup.
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August 28, 2014 12:17:47 PM

Actually with a board with a PLX onboard, you can have "88" lanes(40 CPU assumed + 48PLX), cause the PLX will enable switching around WHICH 40 lanes are being used at what port and the latency for that operation is so small you won't notice.

Virtually speaking, you'll have 40+48 lanes available or 5x 16x + 1x8.

The P9X79-E WS has a PLX and I hope the P9X99-E WS when it comes, will have the same specs, just 2011-3 socket and DDR4 RAM ofc.

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August 28, 2014 7:52:53 PM

ASUS X99-E WS Workstation grade mobo is shown with 7 PCIe slots, support for i7 and Xeon E5 class CPUs. See and read here:-

ASUS X99-E WS

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August 28, 2014 8:30:30 PM

christinebcw said:
Stroking and drooling over computer parts... sheesh...


Nobody said anything about stroking.


Now the drooling, well.................................
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August 29, 2014 5:40:09 AM

EasyLover said:
ASUS X99-E WS Workstation grade mobo is shown with 7 PCIe lanes, support for i7 and Xeon E5 class CPUs. See and read here:-

ASUS X99-E WS


Seven PCIe lanes? I sincerely hope you mean slots; seven lanes would cripple the heck out of the thing.
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August 29, 2014 5:51:24 AM

DARK BREEZE, no, thankfully, no mention. Of course, the one handing typing says a lot more. ha ha
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August 29, 2014 6:12:56 AM

WyomingKnott said:
EasyLover said:
ASUS X99-E WS Workstation grade mobo is shown with 7 PCIe lanes, support for i7 and Xeon E5 class CPUs. See and read here:-

ASUS X99-E WS


Seven PCIe lanes? I sincerely hope you mean slots; seven lanes would cripple the heck out of the thing.


Thanks for pointing that out. Correction has been made. Yes they are slots not lanes please.
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August 30, 2014 7:32:19 AM


7 slots can be exploited by using single slot cards and/or PCI Express splitter boxes.
Check the system at the top of the Arion CUDA benchmark list, it has seven Titans.
In theory one could use 56 GPUs with a 7-slot board, though in practice I expect
the driver mechanism would fall over long before that point.

Ian.

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October 17, 2014 2:19:02 PM

What a motherboard, can't stop admiring or looking at it, but why are they price this high whereas we could build a computer for the same price .... :)  wish they apply this design theme to their Z97, Z87 or my Favorite A88X motherboards ...
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October 17, 2014 3:07:32 PM


Most likely because ASUS knows the target market is happy to pay that level of price for a premium product.
An item is only ever worth what someone is willing to pay.

Ian.

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