Asus ROG Strix X99 Review

Gamer’s Edge

The Asus ROG STRIX X99 is a part of a series of motherboards from Asus that is running the powerful Broadwell-E HEDT CPUs. These motherboards come with a host of features to both enthusiast and overclockers.

ASUS ROG STRIX X99 DESIGN AND FEATURES

Asus ROG Strix X99 motherboards come with RGB Lighting, cooling management, and expansion slots. It has a whole series of colors to choose from as well as configurable lighting effects. To reinforce expansion slots, ASUS makes uses of a novel technology termed SS or Safe Slot that uses a metallic frame for every PCI-e expansion slot in order to add extra strength to each slot and prevent them from potential damage. The new motherboards will provide a ton of features to overclockers and enthusiasts who will be running Broadwell-E HEDT CPUs.

In fact, the latest Broadwell-E processors from Intel can function with the prevailing existing X99 motherboards, by means of an effective firmware update. The X99 incorporates several advanced features that support the latest storage, I/O, as well as connectivity capabilities. It will also feature the latest LGA 2011-v3 socket to support Broadwell-E processors. These features make the ROG STRIX X99 Gaming motherboard extremely powerful.

ASUS ROG STRIX X99 BROADWELL-E MOTHERBOARDS

Some new features on the motherboards include RGB Lighting, expansion slots reinforcement and cooling management. RGB Lighting is becoming increasingly common on motherboards, and ASUS is avidly pursuing this trend on all their latest products. The motherboards will feature several colors to select from, and lighting effects to configure on the boards.

The ROG STRIX X99 Gaming boasts of the essentially monochrome theme that the company began using since recently and seems real splendid. This unique motherboard comes with a black and orange color scheme, in order to impart to the whole thing an attractive copper touch. The X99 also features RGB lightning so that users are able to transform colors over its I/O panel as well as internal heatsink with considerable ease.

CONNECTIVITY

The Asus ROG Strip X99 is equipped with an eight 8 Phase Digit+ III VRM that is effectively powered by an 8 plus 4 Pin power connector. The board comes with no less than eight DDR4 DIMM slots that can run memory with extremely high speeds of a maximum 3333 MHz. The expansion slots have 4 PCI-e 3.0 x16, 2 PCI-e 3.0 x1 slots as also a single M.2 slot down at the bottom of the PCH heat sink. To add a touch of color, the PCI-e expansion slots boasts of small LEDs which can be configured through using RGB effects. As to storage options, there are 10 SATA III, one U.2 port, one SATA Express and 1 U.2 ports.

Then there are Ethernet, Wi-Fi Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, USB 3.0, USB 3.1ports, 2 internal USB 3.0 connectors, and many fan ports too, for effective adjustment of fan speed depending on their positions.

VERDICT

With all its powerful features such as Broadwell-E HEDT CPUs, gamers can have an exciting time with the Asus ROG Strix X99.