New X99 motherboards revealed

[OddsCrazyStuff]

55 minutes ago, danoedel97 said:

Whats up with the irregular spacing on the PCI-E slots? You can't get a 3 (double slot) card setup going without an irregular bridge, and abnormal spacing of the cards. That would look horrible.

My guess its setup for air cooled cards (more air for the coolers), plus we have some GPUs that is 2,5 to 3 slots and most people dont go 3 or 4 way SLI anyway.

Also, they will probably include a bridge that fits the options the motherboard allows.

[OddsCrazyStuff]

A bit more details in this article: http://wccftech.com/gigabyte-x99-motherboards-broadwell-e/

[Sintezza]

Looking forward to see them in the wild.

Of course stripped without the plastic covers.

 

[ShardZer0]

If I wanted a better looking board I would get a ASUS Sabertooth. Looks mean.

[Stardar1]

6 hours ago, afyeung said:

The first good looking X99 boards lol. I swear a lot of people went Z170 for the looks because basically all X99 boards look like trash compared to Z170. 

X99 Godlike Gaming Carbon from MSI is amazing!!!

[NumLock21]

7 hours ago, potoooooooo said:

Broadwell-E ready?

All X99 are Broadwell-E ready. Gigabyte just decides to add some more into their line up.

[potoooooooo]

56 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

All X99 are Broadwell-E ready. Gigabyte just decides to add some more into their line up.

Not until they get updated they aren't ready

[NumLock21]

7 minutes ago, potoooooooo said:

Not until they get updated they aren't ready

Most have bios update. It's been ready.

[Tam3n]

They got Amp-Up Audio, yay.

[PCgamer324]

that glossy white plastic is disgusting 

[Stefan1024]

9 hours ago, OddsCrazyStuff said:

Its more about the features they add, like the new M.2 ports.

Also, there might be something that we cant tell yet, like a new power design to allow the 10 core to overclock better.

The X99 OC boards can already deliver about 400 watts to the CPU. i don't feel like burning even more power. But if they add something like an NVMe raid controller or NVDIMM support this would be nice.

[pagani123]

Im just patiently hoping and waiting for the asus rvbe (rampage v black edition) 

[OddsCrazyStuff]

11 minutes ago, Stefan1024 said:

The X99 OC boards can already deliver about 400 watts to the CPU. i don't feel like burning even more power. But if they add something like an NVMe raid controller or NVDIMM support this would be nice.

I assume they have changed a few things, since it requires high speed ram (2400 instead of 2133). So that means you might need to change the power design, to make use of the changes Intel have done.

[Curufinwe_wins]

15 hours ago, afyeung said:

The first good looking X99 boards lol. I swear a lot of people went Z170 for the looks because basically all X99 boards look like trash compared to Z170. 

Generally yep.

 

X99 was a huge step up in looks over everything before it but Z170 blew that all away. (Although I LOVE the look of the X99 SLI Plus and the sabertooth is also quite a looker.)