Product Showcase

Here you can see the five PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots. Just drop them graphics cards in there for a weird sexy combo, the lowest it'll drop to is a x4 lane configuration (black one), meaning you have excellent bus bandwidth for current generation graphics cards as you are using Gen 3.0 PCI Express lanes. BTW if you use an M.2. device, the black slot will be disabled as it is using the PCIe Lanes needed.

Intel X99 Express Chipset

• 10x SATA 6Gb/s ports (2x ports reserved for SATA Express port)
• SATA1~6 support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10
• SATA7~10 ports only support IDE mode and AHCI mode.
• Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology (Windows 7/ 8/ 8.1)
• 1 x M.2 port, supports M.2 SATA 6Gb/s module
• 1 x M.2 PCIe module up to 32Gb/s speed
  • M.2 port supports 4.2cm/ 6cm/ 8cm length module
  • M.2 PCIe module does not support RAID 0, RAID1, RAID 5 and RAID 10.

In-between and above the PCIe slots (close to the PCH) you'll see two small connectors, these are the two M.2 PCIE SSD ports. The Ultra M.2. connector offers not 10 Gbps storage bandwidth but a whopping 32 Gbps thanks to a x4 PCI Express Gen 3.0 connection. We'll have a look at performance in this review as well.

Last but not least a photo of the backside of this product. And I actually received an email from somebody about us not mentioning this, but the motherboard has two CPU fan headers, three chassis FAN headers and one extra power fan header.