Testing Configuration and Benchmarks Used
To verify that the motherboard works as advertised, the board was run through our standard benchmark suite. In most cases, the results are presented for the motherboard under review as well as a different similar-class motherboard for performance comparison purposes. The benchmark tests used should give you a good understanding of the board’s capabilities for both office and gaming use so that you, the reader, can make a more informed purchasing decision.
| Test System Setup | |
| Motherboards | Intel X99-based systems ASUS Z99-A GIGABYTE X99 Gaming G1 EVGA X99 Classified ASUS X99-Deluxe Intel Z97-based system ASUS Maximus VII Formula |
| CPU | Intel X99-based systems Intel Core i7-5960X (3.0GHz, 30 x 100MHz Base Clock) Intel Z97-based system Intel Core i7-4770K (3.5GHz, 35 x 100MHz Base Clock) |
| Memory | Intel X99-based systems Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 modules (2133MHz, 15-17-17-35-2T, 1.225V) Intel Z97-based system Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 modules (1600MHz, 9-10-9-27-1T, 1.525V) |
| Hard Drive | Intel 730 240GB SSD Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA III HD |
| Sound Card | On-board sound |
| Video Card | ASUS Poseidon GTX 780 3GB |
| CPU Cooling | XSPC Raystorm D5 Photon RX480 V3 WaterCooling Kit Corsair Hydro Series™ H100i Extreme Performance CPU Cooler |
| Video Drivers | NVIDIA 335.23 |
| Power Supply | Corsair HX750 |
| Operating System | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 |
Test Setup Explanation
The 64-bit Windows 7 based test bench used for Intel X99 LGA2011-V3 board testing includes an Intel Core i7-5960X CPU, 32GB of DDR4-2666 memory, an ASUS Poseidon GTX 780 3GB video card, and either a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD drive or an Intel 730 240GB SSD drive. Note that there was no difference in benchmark performance with either drive. For the Z97-based board testing, an Intel Core i7-4770K CPU, 16GB of DDR3-2400 memory, an ASUS Poseidon GTX 780 3GB video card, and a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD drive were used in the test system. Using the selected components gives us the ability to demonstrate the motherboard's capabilities rather than that of the components themselves.
Benchmark Tests used for evaluation:
- SoftPerfect Research NetWorx Speed Test
- LanBench v1.1.0
- ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.47
- SiSoft Sandra 2014 SP3
- LinX Intel Linpack Benchmark v0.6.5 with Intel Linpack version 11.1.3
- Maxon Cinebench R15
Weakness:
No 3 way sli with
Weakness:
No 3 way sli with 28 lane cpu due to lack of x8x8x8 support
I’m like Allyn and wanted to
I’m like Allyn and wanted to upgrade from X58. I wanted to wait for the “second generation” X99 boards to come out to make sure to have a great implementation of this new chipset. Looks like I won’t even need to wait for the higher end deluxe/ROG family to come out, this one has pretty much everything I could want. I’ll need to check which waterblock I can fit there though to cool off the VRMs…
another con: On Asus
another con: On Asus boards(unlike Gigabyte) sata ports which can be used in RAID and which cannot aren’t clearly marked.
edit: Also port no 0,1 are separated from the rest which further leads to confusion. Asus should really change their naming scheme to clarify about which SATA Ports can be used in raid. (gigabyte uses SATA and sSATA to differentiate between two groups of ports).
Those are not cons.. sata
Those are not cons.. sata ports are clearly labeled and 3 way sli is silly.
why don’t you like sli
why don’t you like sli