ASUS X99-Deluxe Photo Gets Online
More X99 news this morning as a photo of the ASUS X99-Deluxe surfaced on the web. The motherboard comes with gorgeous black and white looks. The CPU is based on 8-phases VRM with a 4-phase one for DDR4, it has eight DDR4 DIMM slots. Expansion slots include four PCI-Express 3.0 x16, one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (electrical x4), and an additional PCI-Express 2.0 x4.
X99 is developed for the 6 and 8-core DDR4 supporting Haswell-E HEDT platform and is based on socket LGA2011-3.The motherboards based on X99 can support a whopping five PCI-Express 3.0 x16 which can be arranged in these slot configurations, x16/NC/x16/NC/x8, or x16/NC/x8/x8/x8 and yeah, even x8/x8/x8/x8/x8. 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.
Network connectivity shows two gigabit Ethernet interfaces and Wireless LAN 802.11 ac WLAN. There is 8-channel onboard audio with Crystal Sound 2.
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Not much space between those pice slots...
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I like the looks of it

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It is always exactly 2cm between a single slot. So it's not any difference with any other MB. Some might have empty slots between to save a buck or two, but for users, it's only possitive that they include the option to install more single-slot cards.
A good thing for thoose who likes Raid-controllers, Pci-e SSD's, and/or users with custom watercooling, that modifies their cards to use a single slot.
But then again, it's only ATX. With E-ATX you get another slot, that gives you the possibility to run four dual-slot cards.
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It is always exactly 2cm between a single slot. So it's not any difference with any other MB. Some might have empty slots between to save a buck or two, but for users, it's only possitive that they include the option to install more single-slot cards.
A good thing for thoose who likes Raid-controllers, Pci-e SSD's, and/or users with custom watercooling, that modifies their cards to use a single slot.
But then again, it's only ATX. With E-ATX you get another slot, that gives you the possibility to run four dual-slot cards.
True, but it depends on how the PCIe lanes are distributed to know it I would go for it or not

As I don't plan on wasting any PCIe lanes on raid-controllers or a PCIe ssd, nor plan on custom h2o, I'd still be interested to see if it would work with my not so special config then, because I'd like to go Asus.
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Classy board if the price is right i might consider one
Ps: i don't see the M2 connector is there any combo card like on the ROG mobos Hilbert ?