The Asus X99 Deluxe Owners Thread

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Feel free to discuss, post pics, benches + clocks of your Asus Deluxe

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The X99 Deluxe will feature a 8 Phase Digi+ VRM design which boasts several quality grade components to ensure superior stability and overclocking performance. The VRM is surrounded by a large heatsink at the back of which, an 8-Pin EPS connector can be found to provide power to the LGA 2011-3 socket. The socket is surrounded by eight DDR4 DIMMs which offer up to 128 GB of memory support with speeds of up to 4 GHz (future DDR4 standard).

For storage, ASUS has featured 10 SATA 6 Gbps and two SATA Express ports on the motherboard along with two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 headers.

The switches which include the Power On/Off, CMOS Reset, Reset and Diagnostic LED are found below the PCI-E slots.

Expansion slots include five PCI-e 3.0 x16 and a single PCI-e 3.0 x 4 slot, the motherboard has support for 3-Way SLI and Crossfire GPU functionality. The PCH heatsink is interconnected with a separate heatsink that rests above the top most expansion slot with a thermal heatpipe to dissipate load. ASUS’s X99 offering includes Crystal Sound 2 audio design with the audio section isolated to its own PCB.

The I/O on the motherboard includes 10 USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, two Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports, a 7.1 channel HD-Audio jack, SPDIF and a ASUS CMOS Reset switch. The motherboard also comes with WiFi AC LAN wireless connectivity and the features antenna ports at the I/O panel which is bundled with a ASUS WiFi stand alone transmitter offering 802.11 A/B/G/N connectivity.

One of ASUS’ new features is a patent-pending OC socket that contains extra pins to connect to normally unused pads on the Haswell-E CPUs. Via propriatery circuitry, ASUS is expecting this innovation to lead to higher memory frequencies, lower latencies and stability while overclocking.

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Here is the board Layout from the manual

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If like me you didn't read the manual installing Sli in my Midas build this feature will be very useful :D

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***Latest News***

Looking at support page three BIOS Versions are listed :- First release 0505,0801,0904,1004,1103,1203,1305,1502,1601,1701 and now 1801

X99-DELUXE BIOS 1801

Support for 16GB DDR4 Memory Modules has been added.

NVme and ASUS USB 3.1 PCIE add-on cardsupport was added in 1601


"English User Manual" Here http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA2011/X99-DELUXE/e9504_x99-deluxe_series_ug_for_web_only.pdf

"Exclusive Features Manual" Here http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA2011/X99-DELUXE/e9609_x99_series_exclusive_features_ug_for_web_only.pdf now on the support page for download, along with other language versions.

Qualified Vendors List (QVL) : Memory and Devices is up on the Support Page also.

Useful Links

The main Asus Deluxe page (well worth a look) http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/X99DELUXE/overview/

Support Page Here http://www.asus.com/supportonly/X99-DELUXE/HelpDesk_Download/

FAQ Page http://www.asus.com/supportonly/X99-DELUXE/HelpDesk_Knowledge/

Reviews

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/mainboard/73817-asus-x99-deluxe/

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/asus-x99-deluxe-motherboard-review,1.html

http://techreport.com/review/26973/asus-x99-deluxe-motherboard-reviewed

http://www.legitreviews.com/asus-x99-deluxe-lga2011-v3-motherboard-intel-x99-chipset-review_149200

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8449/asus-x99-launch-rampage-v-extreme-x99deluxe-x99a-and-x99pro This ones more of an Asus board overview from Anandtech

http://www.bjorn3d.com/2014/08/asus-x99-deluxe-new-look-features-asus-x99
 
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I'm going to order one yes and I will probably go for the 5930K but if I can I might plump for the 5960X depends on the reviews. I'm gonna hang back and see before I jump in feet first.

Plus I cancelled my pre-order Enthoo Luxe (White) as my build plan might change, so got time to make some informed choices.
 
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