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MSI launches X299 Pro and Creator X299 motherboards: no RGB and 10 Gbit ethernet
MSI launches new X299 boards all dark, no RGB and with 10 Gige Ethernet for new high-end processors, there are three new boards, the Creator X299 X299 PRO 10G and X299 PRO.
All new MSI X299 motherboards support the latest USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Super Speed USB 20G solution powered by ASMedia to meet creators’ requirement. Transfer speed enhances to incredibly 4 times faster than USB 3.2 Gen1 solution so that designers can save time on backup and other essential data transfer processes. Dual LAN solution is essential for content creation on both Ethernet and Intranet. Concerning all types of time-wasting operation such as redundancy, teaming, or load balancing, up to 10Gbps high-bandwidth and low-latency connectivity ensure incredible data transfer speed which is faster than ever before. MSI LAN Manager can automatically classifies and prioritizes your applications in an intelligent way, giving you the best online experience with the lowest latency.
The conceptual design of MSI Creator X299 is inspired by the craft of crystal. Embedded in the heatsinks with billions of color effects, the crystal design dress up with RGB to present the reflection under sunshine or light. With sharp edges and cuts for heatsinks and color gradation of crystal design, the perfect combination enhances the elegance, making the motherboard as a work of art. Creator X299 is perfectly built with a premium thermal design for high workloads which might cause heat dissipation problems and thermal issues. While creators processing high loading operation such as video editing, animation, or programming, the all-aluminum design with enlarged heatsink size and heat-pipe help dissipate excessive heat and enhance the performance. Besides thermal design, Creator X299 also ensures stable and high efficient power delivery with dedicate 12 phases 90A digital power and triple 8 pin power connectors. Creator X299 shows maximum compatibility for storage. This motherboard is equipped with 3x M.2 slots, plus 4x additional M.2 slots with M.2 XPANDER-AERO, an exclusive add-on accessory card, incredible 19x USB ports, and U.2 ports for all various creator devices to connect, which means creators do not have to sacrifice for anything while doing works.
The latest Lightning USB 20G is powered by our close partner ASMedia with the new ASM 3242 ultra-high speed USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 controller. Lightning USB 20G enhances USB speed to 20Gb/s, which is two times higher than USB 3.2 Gen 2. Designed to satisfy any professional workflow, X299 PRO 10G motherboard features everything in demand, including thermal, network, data transfer and storage. MSI extended PWM heatsink and heat-pipe design ensure high-end processor to run at full speed with lower temperature. Two M.2 Shield Frozr heatsinks offer the best thermal protection and avoid throttling to maintain maximum performance. X299 PRO 10G has a bunch of accessories. M.2 XPANDER-Z add-on card expands 2x M.2 slots with heatsink and fan for more storage.
10G Super LAN card supports high bandwidth, high density and low latency for large file transfer in a flash. The onboard dual LAN includes 2.5G and Gigabit LAN, making faster and stable networking connection. With ASMedia ASM 3242 controller, Lightning USB 20G is also available on X299 PRO 10G for faster USB speeds.
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#5717788 Posted on: 10/07/2019 03:49 PM
Did anyone ever review the Realtek 2.5G chip on the X299 PRO board? I've seen it on many boards, but don't recall any tests of it.
The X299 PRO would otherwise make a nice board. Well, depending on how much more they would charge for the 10G add-in card, which I don't necessarily need, as 2.5G would be fine for now.
I would prefer a 5G aquantia chip personally. Gigabytes X299X series has one, but I still feel iffy even considering Gigabyte with all their shenanigans.
To be honest X299 Pro looks rather bare, its like X299 Creator with stripped reinforcements for Dimm and PCIe slots, stripped sata/m.2/USB ports and what I would consider terrible idea is removed post LED and probably flashback (unless that unmarked button on back is for flashback)?
If you looking for good 10Gbe ethernet you can get dual or quad port server grade OEM Intel 10GB cards from as low as $100 from china.
Did anyone ever review the Realtek 2.5G chip on the X299 PRO board? I've seen it on many boards, but don't recall any tests of it.
The X299 PRO would otherwise make a nice board. Well, depending on how much more they would charge for the 10G add-in card, which I don't necessarily need, as 2.5G would be fine for now.
I would prefer a 5G aquantia chip personally. Gigabytes X299X series has one, but I still feel iffy even considering Gigabyte with all their shenanigans.
To be honest X299 Pro looks rather bare, its like X299 Creator with stripped reinforcements for Dimm and PCIe slots, stripped sata/m.2/USB ports and what I would consider terrible idea is removed post LED and probably flashback (unless that unmarked button on back is for flashback)?
If you looking for good 10Gbe ethernet you can get dual or quad port server grade OEM Intel 10GB cards from as low as $100 from china.
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#5717796 Posted on: 10/07/2019 03:59 PM
Did anyone ever review the Realtek 2.5G chip on the X299 PRO board? I've seen it on many boards, but don't recall any tests of it.
The X299 PRO would otherwise make a nice board. Well, depending on how much more they would charge for the 10G add-in card, which I don't necessarily need, as 2.5G would be fine for now.
I would prefer a 5G aquantia chip personally. Gigabytes X299X series has one, but I still feel iffy even considering Gigabyte with all their shenanigans.
Aquantia has/had offical store on Amazon.com and sell for under 100USD their official card, 5G, 10G gamer, 10G
I checked right now and since they were sold to Marvell all their products are out of stock
You can get 10G ASUS card for 96USD https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-XG-C100C-Network-Adapter-Single/dp/B072N84DG6
BTW i have 5G aquantia and its yours for 50USD + 10$ shipping if you want, I dont have any use for it
Did anyone ever review the Realtek 2.5G chip on the X299 PRO board? I've seen it on many boards, but don't recall any tests of it.
The X299 PRO would otherwise make a nice board. Well, depending on how much more they would charge for the 10G add-in card, which I don't necessarily need, as 2.5G would be fine for now.
I would prefer a 5G aquantia chip personally. Gigabytes X299X series has one, but I still feel iffy even considering Gigabyte with all their shenanigans.
Aquantia has/had offical store on Amazon.com and sell for under 100USD their official card, 5G, 10G gamer, 10G
I checked right now and since they were sold to Marvell all their products are out of stock
You can get 10G ASUS card for 96USD https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-XG-C100C-Network-Adapter-Single/dp/B072N84DG6
BTW i have 5G aquantia and its yours for 50USD + 10$ shipping if you want, I dont have any use for it
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#5717801 Posted on: 10/07/2019 04:07 PM
To be honest X299 Pro looks rather bare, its like X299 Creator with stripped reinforcements for Dimm and PCIe slots, stripped sata/m.2/USB ports and what I would consider terrible idea is removed post LED and probably flashback (unless that unmarked button on back is for flashback)?
If you looking for good 10Gbe Ethernet you can get dual or quad port server grade OEM Intel 10GB cards from as low as $100 from china.
Im also eyeing the MSI Creator or the new X299X AORUS MASTER is not bad, looks like it has the best VRM cooling right now, with heatpipe going to Chipset and from chipset another one to the side and its all proper heatsinks, not just aluminium blocks
Its missing U.2 connector but i can live with it
To be honest X299 Pro looks rather bare, its like X299 Creator with stripped reinforcements for Dimm and PCIe slots, stripped sata/m.2/USB ports and what I would consider terrible idea is removed post LED and probably flashback (unless that unmarked button on back is for flashback)?
If you looking for good 10Gbe Ethernet you can get dual or quad port server grade OEM Intel 10GB cards from as low as $100 from china.
Im also eyeing the MSI Creator or the new X299X AORUS MASTER is not bad, looks like it has the best VRM cooling right now, with heatpipe going to Chipset and from chipset another one to the side and its all proper heatsinks, not just aluminium blocks
Its missing U.2 connector but i can live with it
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#5717806 Posted on: 10/07/2019 04:14 PM
I for one don't mind a few small LED lights here or there to see, but honestly, without a window in the case, they're useless at all. If there is a windowed side-panel or front on the case (like on my last case, hence why I didn't get one is explained), the light ends up blinding me as I leave the tower on the desk where I can work on it (because my back is bad). All those disco-lights get to blinding proportions and can just be a bugger when it lights up the room as you try to get some shut-eye.
Thanks Gigabyte, if I was in the market for an x299 board, this would be my first choice.
For the record my first go-to was SuperMicro for the classic green board (I originally wanted to paint my case beige for old-times sake this build), but they only had AMD boards for Epyc, not for Ryzen (what a missed opportunity). I am just sick and tired of paying through the nose for this gamer-this fancy-that features I DO NOT NEED, and that actually would be a pest. To ASUS's credit, I could turn their motherboard's LEDs off, for what it's worth. I ended up getting the cheapest x570 motherboard this time around - which was an AsRock model just to not have to worry about pesty LEDs.
Good to know Gigabyte realizes not everyone wants a glow-in-the-dark motherboard (and that not every content creator needs one, either, especially when saving that extra cash means more RAM or a better CPU in-stead, which actually helps the cause for building an entirely new PC).
I for one don't mind a few small LED lights here or there to see, but honestly, without a window in the case, they're useless at all. If there is a windowed side-panel or front on the case (like on my last case, hence why I didn't get one is explained), the light ends up blinding me as I leave the tower on the desk where I can work on it (because my back is bad). All those disco-lights get to blinding proportions and can just be a bugger when it lights up the room as you try to get some shut-eye.
Thanks Gigabyte, if I was in the market for an x299 board, this would be my first choice.
For the record my first go-to was SuperMicro for the classic green board (I originally wanted to paint my case beige for old-times sake this build), but they only had AMD boards for Epyc, not for Ryzen (what a missed opportunity). I am just sick and tired of paying through the nose for this gamer-this fancy-that features I DO NOT NEED, and that actually would be a pest. To ASUS's credit, I could turn their motherboard's LEDs off, for what it's worth. I ended up getting the cheapest x570 motherboard this time around - which was an AsRock model just to not have to worry about pesty LEDs.
Good to know Gigabyte realizes not everyone wants a glow-in-the-dark motherboard (and that not every content creator needs one, either, especially when saving that extra cash means more RAM or a better CPU in-stead, which actually helps the cause for building an entirely new PC).
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Did anyone ever review the Realtek 2.5G chip on the X299 PRO board? I've seen it on many boards, but don't recall any tests of it.
The X299 PRO would otherwise make a nice board. Well, depending on how much more they would charge for the 10G add-in card, which I don't necessarily need, as 2.5G would be fine for now.
I would prefer a 5G aquantia chip personally. Gigabytes X299X series has one, but I still feel iffy even considering Gigabyte with all their shenanigans.