ASUS X99-A vs X99-DELUXE

[Janeyadonnah]

I am at the moment planning a new personal gaming rig and so I will go from my i7-3770 (NOT K) to an i7-5820k.

Of course I then need a x99-Motherboard and as Asus has the safe socket with the extra pins, I would like to get one by Asus.

 

The x99-a and x99-Deluxe have nearly similar specs and colour scheme but the price difference is more than 100€!

So what's the difference between the X99-A and the X99-Deluxe?

Will I loose any performance when choosing the deluxe?

 

Please let me now!

 

PS: I only have one GTX 980, so it doesn't need to be capeable of SLI.

[Poster]

You will not lose any performance, but you will lose some features.  Pick the board that has the features you want/need.

 

http://www.asus.com/us/Compare/

[NumLock21]

Difference between the 2 boards is just the number of ports it has as well as the accessories it comes with. The Deluxe has 2 lan ports as well as BT+Wifi, while the X99-A only has a single lan port and no BT or  Wifi. There is more USB 3 on the Deluxe and it comes with a fan extension hub. The heatsink on the Deluxe is much larger than the X99-A and it connected via heatpipes. Boards that looks similar to the Deluxe is the X99-Pro and X99-S. Newer ones has USB 3.1. The X99-A/USB 3.1 has the ports built in, while the Deluxe version, just bundles with a USB 3.1 PCIe card.