Product Showcase

X99 will bring a whopping 10-port SATA 6 Gb/s storage controller supporting RAID RST and SRT and SSD TRIM on RAID 0 configurations. SATA Express is supported. Fun fact, there is a dedicated 4-pin HDD Saver Connector placed near the SATA ports. By connecting it to the HDDs, you can shut down or turn on the HDDs via software when needed.  In total you will have 10 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4), 1 M.2 (PCIe Gen2 x4 & SATA3). The two buttons above are power and reset buttons. To the left you can see a Molex connector, this is a n extra PCIe power connector so you can add some more juice to the graphics cards.

11 USB 3.0 (4 Front, 6 Rear, 1 Vertical Type A), 6 USB 2.0 (4 Front, 2 Rear). Make note of all the USB lovin' you will receive.  The the micro button is a CLEAR CMOS switch.
 

ASROCk will deliver power and reset buttons on-board. There are voltage monitoring points as well so that you can monitor critical control points with a Digital multimeter. A set of + and – buttons allows you to adjust your Base Clock in real time, even during bench-marking. For LN2 overclockers there is a slow mode buttons s well as the option to dis/enable PCIe slots with the mode switches. Check out the capacitors btw, these are nichicon 12K platinum caps, these will outlife you !

There are two of them on the motherboard, but interesting to see is the lower 'Ultra' M.2. PCI Express slot, this received an upgrade from 1x PCI Express lane towards x4, giving the port not 10 GB/sec but 32 GB/sec performance. The board comes with diagnostic LEDs and voltage measurement points. You will get eight DIMM slots offer support for quad-channel DDR4 memory up to even 3400 MHz (OC). You can install a maximum of 128 GB in total. XMP 2.0 is supported. To the far right you can see a Diagnostic post LED, it will display the status/post code.